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mooreboyz
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Posted: April 04 2008 at 12:53pm | IP Logged Quote mooreboyz
Our family recently watched "August Rush" and just loved it! It gave my boys new excitement with their piano lessons...all of a sudden my 6 year old is writing music. I just love these kinds of films and am wondering if anyone can think of similar films that could get our kids excited and motivated. Thanks!

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Posted: April 04 2008 at 1:34pm | IP Logged Quote stefoodie
We love

The Rookie
that football (Notre Dame) movie with the guy who played Sam Gamgee in LOTR -- sorry I can't remember the title! -- oh yay, found it~!! -- Rudy
and Miracle
and Glory Road

but they're all sports movies (I'm not a sports person but dh and the kids are)

DH and I liked August Rush too -- watched it on the plane on the way home from a trip. Esp. the part where he just started playing the guitar; loved that scene! The plot though gave us several "huh?" moments and I wasn't very comfortable with the teen pregnancy /abandoned orphan scenario -- made me rather glad the kids were asleep.

I wish they'd make some of the classic composers' stories into kid-friendly movies -- almost all of them met opposition at one time or another, usually from fathers who thought they'd be better off in another profession... or their music/work wasn't accepted right away... and yet they forged on.



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