A film to watch with my 12 year old daughter.

As the wife and son are off to the theatre tonight, I am looking forward to a the sofa, a film, crisps and ice cream. But what film? The kids are getting a bit bored of my 80s nostalgia so preferably something from the last decade. You’ve not let me down yet, STW.

Holes
Stardust

Fantastic Mr Fox or Isle of Dogs. Both on Disney+

Isle of dogs

Fantastic Mr Fox

Hunt for the Wilderpeople

We all watched Cruella last night and it was excellent. My 13yr old loved it.

+1 Stardust. Something for everyone. Great film.

Coraline for weirdness.

Aliens.
Scare the bejezus out of her.
I think I waited until mine was about 13 and it instantly became her favourite film ever. She still loves it.

clueless or mean girls.

Or la la land – great film

Or if you have Disney plus, the Phineas and Ferb feature length cartoons are hilarious.

Hunt for the Wilderpeople

Is a great choice.

Nims Island?
My Nieceseses used to love that.

The Enola Holmes films with Millie Bobby Brown are utterly brilliant. Or if you’d like a series, we loved Wednesday

Is Avatar2 on streaming services yet?

Saw the title and came her to say “The Princess Bride” but it’s 80s nostalgia.

It’s not, it’s actually pure genius.

Apocalypse Now: Director’s Cut.

Start them young.

Hunt for the Wilderpeople

This.
My 12 year old son loves it.
Just make sure you have some babaganoush in

The fastest woman in the world.

Aliens.
Scare the bejezus out of her.

My father took my sister and I to see jaws when it first came out(we were 7+9)

The reason far as i can tell was he was really busy with work, and didnt want us constantly going on about trips to the seaside.

Onzadog
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Saw the title and came her to say “The Princess Bride” but it’s 80s nostalgia.

It’s not, it’s actually pure genius.

Ditto. It’s not 80s, it’s timeless!

Another vote for Enola Holmes. Strong female role models and all that, not patronising. My daughter loves both movies

How to Train Your Dragon.

My nieces love it. Plus it’s one of those animated films that has enough in-jokes and references for adults too.

My father took my sister and I to see jaws when it first came out(we were 7+9)
The reason far as i can tell was he was really busy with work, and didnt want us constantly going on about trips to the seaside.

Excellent!

Princess Bride should be mandatory watching, love Holes too

Cocaine Bear

Threads.

Prepare her for what’s coming.

Apocalypse Now: Director’s Cut.

Start them young.

Username checks out.

Bridge to Terabithia.

Brilliant. But be prepared to blub together.

Came here to say Cocaine Bear

APF :-)

Watched the Princess Bride with my 10 and 12 year old daughters last night. They thought it had some good lines but Buttercup was pathetic, and would have been better swapped with Wesley.

Stardust should be better.

Cocaine Bear is always the answer but it’s set in 1985 so they probably won’t like it.

School of rock but my daughter now 29 it may be a bit dated

The Queen Of Katwe, it’s on iPlayer. You’ll both love it.

Watched the Princess Bride with my 10 and 12 year old daughters last night. They thought it had some good lines but Buttercup was pathetic, and would have been better swapped with Wesley.

I think The Fall (the one with Lee Pace not the one with Gillian Anderson) is the film young folk should actually watch when old fogeys tell them to watch the princess bride. It’s a better example of a story being told and seen in the imagination of the person it’s being told to.

there’s a lovely mismatch between the story as told and what you see because the imaginer doesn’t completely understand everything they’re being told. So their vision of the story is more like a dream than a movie as you see visually invented solutions to the gaps in their understanding that add magic to the world they’re creating.

The Enola Holmes films with Millie Bobby Brown are utterly brilliant.

Came here to say this.

+1 for Cruella. It’s excellent.

Or Singin’ in the Rain for a classic. I watched it last week (for the 1st time) with my wife and 10yo daughter. The script is hilarious and the dancing is amazing.

@maccruiskeen

Looks good, thanks.

Obviously…

Edge of Tomorrow is within the last decade (just) and has a strong female lead.

The Enola Holmes films with Millie Bobby Brown are utterly brilliant. Or if you’d like a series, we loved Wednesday

Sample of 1, but these are excellent, as are most suggestions above. Whale Rider is a bit old now, but great movie. Reservation Dogs (TV series) hits a lot of the same themes.

Edge of Tomorrow is within the last decade (just) and has a strong female lead.

Not sure it is streaming any more though :(

I knew I could count on you. Thanks for all the recommendations.

I’m also a fan of the Princess Bride. I quite like Fantastic Mr. Fox but I have such strong visuals from the book that I don’t want to spoil it.

Stardust goes on the possibl list, Wednesday was good but tried to be too clever. The kids didn’t like Jaws because the shark dies at the end.

She’s a bit young for Mean Girls (I watched it on my own for the first time last month, it’s great). We’ve  watche the Enola Holmes films – the first was significantly better.

Bridge to Terabithia was a good film but horrible to watch.

The Fall looks interesting but I think that today’s winner is Hunt for the Wilderpeople. Thanks again people.

Hunt for the Wilderpeople is an awesome film, good choice 👍

Hunt for the Wilderpeople is one of my favourite films.
Bunnyhop a 12 year old girl in an old woman’s body :0)