The Children's Hour (1961)

Pretty in Pink (1986)

Summary: A poor girl must choose between the affections of dating her childhood sweetheart or a rich but sensitive playboy.

Release Date: February 28, 1986

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Howard Deutch

Writer: John Hughes

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Paramount Pictures

Distributor: National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Fathom Events, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 9,000,000

Domestic: $ 40,471,663

International: $ 8,990

My Girl (1991)

Summary: Vada is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. When Vada's father hires Shelly, a makeup expert, and begins to fall in love, Vada is outraged and does everything in her power to split them up.

Release Date: November 27, 1991

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Family

Director: Howard Zieff

Writer: Laurice Elehwany

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Columbia Pictures, Imagine Entertainment

Distributor: Columbia TriStar Home Video, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, HBO Max, National Broadcasting Company (NBC)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 17,000,000

Domestic: $ 59,489,799

International: $ 2,754

The Faculty (1998)

Summary: When Casey Connor, Herrington High School's newspaper photographer, witnesses the murder of a nurse and sees her alive again, he decides to investigate the bizarre happenings.

Release Date: December 25, 1998

Genres: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Director: Robert Rodriguez

Writers: David Wechter

, Bruce Kimmel

, Kevin Williamson

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: R

Production: Dimension Films, Los Hooligans Productions, Dimension Films

Distributor: Miramax, Dimension Films, CBS Entertainment, Echo Bridge Home Entertainment, ViacomCBS Global Distribution Group

Countries: United States, Mexico

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 40,283,321

International: $ 465

Raise Your Voice (2004)

Summary: Terri Fletcher is a small town girl with the voice of a big-time singer. When personal tragedy interrupts her steady life, Terri defies her father's wishes and secretly heads off to spend a summer at a Los Angeles performing arts ...

Release Date: October 08, 2004

Genres: Family, Musical, Music

Director: Sean McNamara

Writers: Mitch Rotter

, Sam Schreiber

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: PG

Production: New Line Cinema, FilmEngine, ChickFlicks Productions, Brookwell-McNamara Entertainment

Distributor: New Line Cinema, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 10,411,980

International: $ 4,455,534

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Necessary Roughness (1991)

Summary: Due to NCAA sanctions, the Texas State University Fightin' Armadillos must form a football team from their actual student body, with no scholarships to help, to play their football schedule.

Release Date: November 01, 2022

Genres: Comedy, Sport

Director: Stan Dragoti

Writers: Rick Natkin

, David Fuller

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Paramount Pictures

Distributor: Paramount Home Entertainment, National Broadcasting Company (NBC)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 13,500,000

Domestic: $ 26,255,594

The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)

Summary: A young man, falsely imprisoned by his jealous "friend", escapes and uses a hidden treasure to exact his revenge.

Release Date: January 25, 2002

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Director: Kevin Reynolds

Writers: Alexandre Dumas

, Jay Wolpert

Runtime: 2 h 11 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Touchstone Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment, World 2000 Entertainment

Distributor: Buena Vista Home Entertainment

Countries: Ireland, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 35,000,000

Domestic: $ 54,234,062

International: $ 21,160,986

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)

Summary: As the Clone Wars sweep the galaxy, Anakin Skywalker and his new Padawan, Ahsoka Tano, embark on a mission to rescue the kidnapped son of Jabba the Hutt. The renegade Count Dooku, however, is determined to ensure that they fail.

Release Date: November 12, 2019

Genres: Action, Adventure, Animation

Director: Dave Filoni

Writers: Henry Gilroy

, Steven Melching

, Scott Murphy

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Lucasfilm Animation, Lucasfilm

Distributor: Disney+, Warner Home Video

Countries: United States, Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom, Czechia, Czech Republic

Language: English

Franchise: Star Wars

Movie budget: $ 8,500,000

Domestic: $ 35,161,554

International: $ 33,121,290

Uncle Buck (1989)

Summary: Laid back commitment-phobe Buck babysits his brother's rebellious teenage daughter and her cute younger brother and sister.

Release Date: August 16, 1989

Genre: Comedy

Director: John Hughes

Writer: John Hughes

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Universal Pictures, Hughes Entertainment

Distributor: Universal Pictures, CBS, Disney Channel, HBO Max, MCA Home Video, MCA/Universal Home Video, Nickelodeon Network, Showtime Networks, USA Network, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), Universal Studios Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 66,758,538

International: $ 12,500,000

Renaissance Man (1994)

Summary: A failed businessman is hired by the army to teach a group of underachieving recruits in order to help them pass basic training.

Release Date: June 03, 1994

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Penny Marshall

Writer: Jim Burnstein

Runtime: 2 h 08 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Touchstone Pictures, Cinergi Pictures Entertainment, Parkway Productions

Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures, Touchstone Home Video, Home Box Office (HBO)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 40,000,000

Domestic: $ 24,332,324

Get Over It (2001)

Summary: A high school senior's girlfriend breaks up with him. His friends try to make him think of something else. His friend's sister Kelly helps him with the school musical. Spending time with Kelly has an effect.

Release Date: January 24, 2023

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Director: Tommy O'Haver

Writer: R. Lee Fleming Jr.

Runtime: 1 h 27 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Miramax, Ignite Entertainment, Keshan

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 22,000,000

Domestic: $ 11,576,464

International: $ 8,323,902

Mona Lisa Smile (2003)

Summary: Katherine Watson teaches art history in 1953 at the respectable all-female Wellesley College. She encourages her conservative students to question and disregard the outdated societal mores for women.

Release Date: December 19, 2003

Genre: Drama

Director: Mike Newell

Writers: Lawrence Konner

, Mark Rosenthal

Runtime: 1 h 57 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Revolution Studios, Red Om Films

Distributor: Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Releasing, Columbia TriStar Home Video, HBO Max, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Tubi TV

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 65,000,000

Domestic: $ 63,860,942

International: $ 77,477,047

Music of the Heart (1999)

Summary: After Roberta Guaspari separates from her husband, she receives encouragement from her mother to take up a job of a music teacher at the Central Park East School in East Harlem.

Release Date: October 29, 1999

Genres: Drama, Music

Director: Wes Craven

Writer: Pamela Gray

Runtime: 2 h 04 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Craven-Maddalena Films, Miramax

Distributor: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 27,000,000

Domestic: $ 14,859,394

International: $ 77,013

The Next Karate Kid (1994)

Summary: Mr. Miyagi is back and he takes a new pupil under his wing: a troubled adolescent girl.

Release Date: August 12, 1994

Genres: Action, Drama, Family

Director: Christopher Cain

Writers: Robert Mark Kamen

, Mark Lee

Runtime: 1 h 47 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Columbia Pictures

Distributor: Disney Channel, Mill Creek Entertainment, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: The Karate Kid

Movie budget: $ 12,000,000

Domestic: $ 8,914,777

International: $ 6,961,576

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991)

Summary: The Turtles discover their origins while they endeavour to save New York City from the evil Shredder and his Foot Clan.

Release Date: March 22, 1991

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy

Director: Michael Pressman

Writers: Kevin Eastman

, Peter Laird

, Todd W. Langen

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Golden Harvest Company, GH Pictures, Golden Harvest Pictures (China), Golden Movies International

Distributor: Image Entertainment, New Line Home Video, RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, Fox Network, New Line Home Entertainment, MGM Worldwide Television, Warner Home Video, Warner Bros.

Countries: Hong Kong, United States

Language: English

Franchise: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Movie budget: $ 25,000,000

Domestic: $ 78,656,813

Orange County (2002)

Summary: A guidance counselor mistakenly sends out the wrong transcripts to Stanford University under the name of an over-achieving high schooler.

Release Date: January 11, 2002

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Jake Kasdan

Writer: Mike White

Runtime: 1 h 22 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Paramount Pictures, MTV Films, Scott Rudin Productions

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 18,000,000

Domestic: $ 41,076,018

International: $ 2,248,991