Constanza Boutter (constanzaboutter)

Affable, old-fashioned and surprisingly effective family comedy in which Charles Grodin plays an impatient, stressed-out dad whose loving suburban family persuades him to let them adopt a cute puppy. When it grows into an oversized, slobbering St Bernard the inevitable havoc ensues. A sharp script and a cast of oddball characters including an ingratiating yuppie played by David Duchovny keep the film fresh.

Heady, enchanting sci-fi fantasy fable in three-acts that tone-shifts from ambiguous joy to delirious terror to bravura ending, and which benefits from the blend of styles from Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg. Despite obvious parallels with the fairy tale Pinocchio, it manages to create a world of its own, alternately rich, strange and savage. Jude Law is never better than his picaresque 'mecha' Gigolo Joe, but Haley Joel Osment astonishes with a talent that carries the film to its rousing completion, the quiet dignity of which is quite stunning to behold. It might make you cry watching it or it might give you the creeps thinking about it afterwards.

Classic Hollywood, several magnificent, memorable scenes, the chariot race, the galley, one of the greatest films.

One of the very last of the great Hollywood musicals, it is a supremely elegant screen. The film was a huge commercial success, grossing over seventy million dollars. The film certainly has plenty going for it.