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In The Best Old Movies for Families, film critic and father of two Ty Burr has compiled an impassioned and readable guide to help wean your kids off Hollywood junk food and introduce them to the classics. From Action/Adventure to Comedy to Musicals, Burr covers dozens of suggestions in the book, which we've condensed here into an easy starter kit. Click on the links below or scroll down to browse his recommendations, then pick a movie, grab the popcorn, and launch your family's cinematic adventures!
Movie recommendations for kids, ages:
4-6 | 7-8 | 9-10 | 11-12 | 13-15 | 16-18
AGES 11-12
Metropolis
The first epic sci-fi film--one that prefigures everything from Bladerunner to The Matrix--Metropolis still packs a punch strictly on the dreamlike power of its visuals. Full of iconic characters behaving in mythic ways, this dystopian tale is accessible to both kids and teens. Or as the author's daughter says, "It's really cool."
White Heat
A great late-period gangster movie featuring Jimmy Cagney in one of his most astonishing roles: Cody Jarrett, a vicious killer with a mama complex. The fiery finale is movie legend.
The Shop Around the Corner
Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullavan play shopclerks who hate each other at work but love each other in their anonymous pen-pal letters. It's the basis for the Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan You've Got Mail but the original's both funnier and more tender. Co-starring Frank Morgan, the Wizard of Oz himself. |
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"Terrific, necessary, and carried out with integrity, intelligence, sensitivity, and totally without condes- cension. Ty Burr's book can lead to a lot of pleasure–of the life-long kind."
—Peter Bogdanovich
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