- Home Alone
When bratty 8-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) behaves up the night before a family trip to Paris, his mother (Catherine O’Hara) forces him to sleep in the attic. When the McCallisters leave for the airport without Kevin, he awakens to an empty house and believes his wish to have no family has come true. However, his excitement fades when he understands that two con men (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern) intend to rob the McCallister home and that he is the only one who can protect the family.
- The Sandlot
When Scottie Smalls (Thomas Guiry) moves to a new neighborhood, he becomes friends with a bunch of kids who play baseball on the sandlot. Together, they go on a series of amusing and emotional adventures. The boys get into trouble when Smalls borrows a ball from his stepfather and hits it over a fence.
- Hook
When his young children are kidnapped by his old adversary, Capt. Hook (Dustin Hoffman), middle-aged lawyer Peter Banning (Robin Williams) reverts to his magical persona as Peter Pan. Peter must recall a hazy past in which he abandoned Neverland for family responsibilities, leaving Tinkerbell (Julia Roberts) and the Lost Boys to fend for themselves. Given their resentment of Peter for maturing and their loyalty to their new leader, Rufio, the old gang may not be pleased to see him.
- Stand By Me
When four Oregon lads learn that a stranger has been accidently murdered near their rural homes, they decide to visit the body. Gordie Lachance (Wil Wheaton), Vern Tessio (Jerry O’Connell), Chris Chambers (River Phoenix), and Teddy Duchamp (Corey Feldman) face a cruel trash guy and a marsh full of leeches while learning more about each other and their very diverse home situations. At first, the lads’ experience seems like a joke, but it turns out to be a watershed moment in their lives.
- My Girl
Tomboy Vada Sultenfuss (Anna Chlumsky) has excellent reason to be morbid: her mother died giving birth to her, and her father (Dan Aykroyd) runs a funeral company out of their house. The other kids believe she’s crazy, and it doesn’t help that her best pal, Thomas J. Sennett (Macaulay Culkin), is male. To make matters worse, Vada is deeply in love with her English instructor, Mr. Bixler (Griffin Dunne). What should an 11-year-old girl do?
- The Karate Kid
When his mother’s work requires a move to China, 12-year-old Dre Parker (Jaden Smith) discovers that he is a stranger in a new place. Despite knowing a little karate, his fighting abilities are no match for Cheng, the school bully. Dre makes a friend in Mr. Han (Jackie Chan), a maintenance worker and martial-arts expert. Mr. Han teaches Dre all about kung fu in the hopes that he will be able to defeat Cheng and possibly win the heart of a beautiful classmate named Mei Ying.
- The Goonies
An old-fashioned story about a group of daring kids who take on the might of a property development business that wants to demolish their home to establish a country club. When the youngsters find an old pirate map in the attic, they follow it into an underground cavern in pursuit of hidden treasure, but they encounter numerous deadly hurdles along the way.
- Free Willy
When maladjusted orphan Jesse (Jason James Richter) vandalizes a theme park, he is put with foster parents and forced to work there to make up. There he encounters Willy, a young orca whale who has been separated from his family. Sensing kinship, they forge a friendship and build a trick routine with the assistance of gentle whale trainer Rae Lindley (Lori Petty). However, greedy park owner Dial (Michael Ironside) quickly discovers the couple and devises a plot to benefit from them.
- The parent Trap
In this update of a 1961 film, twins Annie and Hallie (Lindsay Lohan) are strangers until happenstance unites them. The preteen girls’ divorced parents, Nick (Dennis Quaid) and Elizabeth (Natasha Richardson), are living on opposite sides of the Atlantic, each with one child. After meeting at camp, American Hallie and British-raised Annie engineer an identity swap, giving both the chance to spend time with the parent they’ve missed. If the scheme works, it might just make the family whole again.
- Matilda
This cinematic version of a Roald Dahl novel follows the story of Matilda Wormwood (Mara Wilson), a brilliant child who must put up with a crass, aloof father (Danny DeVito) and mother (Rhea Perlman). Worse, Agatha Trunchbull (Pam Ferris), Matilda’s school principal, is a terrifyingly harsh bully. However, when Matilda finds she possesses telekinesis, she begins to rescue her companions from Trunchbull’s fury and fight back against her cruel parents.
