Good PG-rated movies
 

I just started working in a video store (can you say, "free rentals"?) and while we are working we get to watch movies. I thought that would be awesome, but you can only watch PG and G movies. If you guys could give me some suggestions that would be great.

Star Wars, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, and Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. That's it.

check out the spanish prisoner
it's a david mamet movie with steve martin
not a comedy though

The Princess Bride
Shrek and all the Pixar movies
October Sky


Just off the top of my head.

Good suggestions, the_marq. I'd also recommend

• Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
• Fantasia
• Citizen Kane (rosebud!)
• From Here to Eternity (not sure what this is rated)
• Doctor Strangelove (not sure what this is rated either)
• any of the Harry Potter movies (note THREE links there)
• the first and third Indiana Jones movies
• Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain ("Amelie") (not sure what this is rated)
• Fried Green Tomatos (chick flick)
• Forbidden Planet
• Destination: Moon
• 2001 (only if you're not a moron because of the director)
• 2010 (okay to be a moron for this one. :D)
• Dr. No (No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to DIE!)
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail (classic!)
• October Sky (to back up the_marq)
• Young Frankenstein (That's "Frahnken-steen")
• The Wizard of Speed and Time (TRY to find this one!)

Feh, that should cover you for a few days.

We're No Angels - Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, Peter Ustinov - 1955

Flight of the Phoenix - Jimmy Stewart and many other greats. One of my all-time favorites- 1965

Harvey - Jimmy Stewart

Enjoy!

oh I love movies!

How about Any Chevy Chase? The Griswolds are hilarious. National lampoons, family vacation, christmas vacation, european vacation are all classics.

How about Ben Stiller? Meet the parents and something about marry are quite funny flicks.

How about Terry Gilliam? Okay so a few are rated R, but his movies are awesome.

How about Johnny Depp? Pirates of the Carribean I feel is an instant classic.

How about Tim Robbins? The Shawshank Redemption is great. So is the Hudsucker Proxy. very funny. Mission to mars is also good. which reminds me of the other movie about the red planet. Red Planet. that one is pretty good too.

there are lots and lots of good G rated or PG movies

The Indiana Jones Trilogy
Rocky
or Dr. Strangelove

yeah, check out older movies if you haven't. most are pretty tame rating wise.
many are in the afi top 100
there are some good ones in there.

also, you can watch some of the fellini movies.

hmm,
"love actually" has boobies and all, was PG , well at least where i live

Some of the movie "classics", The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, soooo many wonderful movies - all are unrated... but no way would be R rated.

The original Cape Fear is also unrated (I beleive) or North by Northwest, the Manchurian Candidate -- I could go on and on... definitely worth seeing.

A lot of the old classic comedies would be a good work watch.
The Marx Brothers movies
Abbott and Costello movies
Arsenic and Old Lace.
A lot of great Westerns aren't rated.

The Secret of Nihm

napoleon dynamite!

Spirited Away!

And add on the Fred Astaire movies to that list.

Oh, yes, Malficient, the Maltese Falcon is great, classic Peter Lorre, there. It might be hard to keep kids interested in the Manchurian Candidate and Treasure of... though.

All of the "Thin Man" series with William Powell and Mirna Loy are excellent, too. Most of the earlier detective mystery genre are short enough and have enough going on that kids will watch, too.

You betchum, Red! ;)

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were a dance team extraordinaire.
Some of their best movies were:
Top Hat
Shall We Dance
Swing Time

The Princess Bride
Star Wars
The Goonies

Oh my god, I can't believe someone else has actually seen this. My friend actually bought a copy from a video store that didn't know what they had. Every once in a while I'll hear rumors about a DVD release of WoSaT, but they always turn out to just be rumors.

While I'm talking about weird and quirky movies, I would also highly suggest Rubin and Ed by highly ignored Utah director Trent Harris. My cat can eat an entire watermelon.

Other good G or PG movies are:

• Holes (Even better book)
• Alice in Wonderland
• Hoosiers

Hmm...that's all that comes to mind now, but I'll add in more when I have a little more time to think about it.

I have a copy of the DVD. The method for getting it is a bit convoluted. Also, see http://www.shubs.net/wizard/ . Note: that URL is exclusive to TFP for the moment. Please don't spread it around.

The Straight Story
Charade(1963)
Duel
The Great Escape
Jaws
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
The Princess Bride
Spaceballs
To Kill a Mockingbird
Top Secret!
that's all the movies I own that would be safe

Just thought of one I loved as a kid - CONDORMAN!
It's pretty cheesy for today, but I loved the spy-superhero aspect of the movie when I was a kid.
And you gotta love cane-guns. :D