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Family on December 23rd, 2006 by Chad Everett
Long before The Santa Clause 2 (eight years, in fact), there was The Santa Clause. This movie introduced us to Scott Calvin (Tim Allen), who is basically a regular guy trying to come to grips with the fact that his ex-wife and her new husband have custody of his son, and he doesn’t get to see him very often.
Add to that the fact that his job is rather demanding, and even when he does get to see his son, such as on Christmas Eve, he’s usually running late, and his son doesn’t always want to see him, so things just aren’t going very well. All that is about to change.
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Posted to
Family on November 18th, 2006 by Chad Everett
Danny O’Shea (Rick Moranis) was always the last kid picked when it came to just about anything, but especially in football. This fact was always made worse by the fact that his brother, Kevin, wasn’t just Kevin, he was the great Kevin O’Shea (Ed O’Neill), who won the Heisman Trophy in college and had an amazing career.
Now he’s a car salesman, but he’s still the great Kevin O’Shea, and his Cowboys are the team to be on. When Danny’s daughter Becky, also know as The Icebox (Shawna Waldron) is denied a spot on the team, everyone knows it is because she is a girl. After all, The Icebox is the best player in town – what else could it be?
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Family on August 17th, 2006 by Chad Everett
A young boy (Hal Scardino) receives two notable presents on his birthday – both fairly antique.
One is a beat-up cupboard and one is a small Indian figure. Being a boy, he puts the Indian figure in the cupboard. Also being a boy, he wants to lock the door, so his mom helps him look through her stash of skeleton keys to find one that may fit. Against all odds, he finds one that fits, and so he locks the Indian in the cupboard overnight.
While he sleeps, he hears something and wakes to find the key being pushed out of the lock. Investigating, he opens the door and finds that the Indian has come to life!
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Posted to
Family on April 29th, 2006 by Chad Everett
Like Dennis the Menace, this movie won’t win many awards – but it is a pretty decent family flick. The only problem it has in that regard, in fact, is one scatalogical expletive (a fairly funny one, but still).
Beyond that, the plot is simple. Jason Alexander is the manager of a five-star hotel in New York, and his two kids live there with him. They are naturally hard at work trying to make his life miserable and he is hard at work trying to keep the hotel up-to-snuff for its high-falutin’ guests.
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