10 Near-Perfect Family Movies That No One Remembers Today

Kids and family films have produced countless favorites, but many fine entries have quietly slipped from view. With new streaming originals arriving constantly, it’s easy for near-perfect movies to become hidden gems waiting to be rediscovered. Balto, produced by Amblin Entertainment, dramatizes the 1925 Nome diphtheria run and mixes live action with animation; Kevin Bacon leads a cast that includes Bob Hoskins, Bridget Fonda and Phil Collins.

Fly Away Home follows young Amy (Anna Paquin) as she cares for goslings that imprint on her, forging a moving bond while she and her father (Jeff Daniels) learn to teach them to migrate amid striking nature cinematography. The Rescuers pairs two Rescue Aid Society mice, Miss Bianca (Eva Gabor) and Bernard (Bob Newhart), on a mission to save Penny (Michelle Stacy) from the formidable Madame Medusa (Geraldine Page) and her quest for the Devil’s Eye.

The Great Mouse Detective adapts Eve Titus’s Basil of Baker Street, with Barrie Ingham as Basil, Val Bettin as Dr.

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