Movies with music written by Randy Newman
Undeterred by the universally hostile reaction to her previous holiday picture, Mixed Nuts, director Nora Ephron (Sleepless in Seattle) is back at it again this year with Michael, the second angel-comes-to-Earth feature of the month. While this ma...
U.S. Release Date: 1996-12-25
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Nora Ephron
Cast: John Travolta, William Hurt, Andie MacDowell, ...
For Pixar, Monsters University stops the bleeding. In the wake of two disappointing films, 2012's lackluster Brave and 2011's misfire Cars 2, the animation company has returned to solid footing with a prequel to their 2001 entry, Monsters Inc. Alth...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-06-21
MPAA Rating: "G"
Genre: ANIMATED
Director: Dan Scanlon
Cast: (voices) Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, ...
Remember when, as a child, you used to fear the monster under the bed or in the closet - how your parents would tell you to go to sleep, that it wasn't real? Monsters, Inc. confirms what every child really knows - the things that go bump in the ni...
U.S. Release Date: 2001-11-02
MPAA Rating: "G"
Genre: ANIMATED
Director: Peter Docter, David Silverman
Cast: (voices) Billy Crystal, John Goodman, James Coburn, ...
Sometimes, pure technical accuracy isn't enough. Sometimes, artistry has to be taken into account. One such case in point is Barry Levision's The Natural, arguably the best baseball movie ever made. The film works not because it is flawless in i...
U.S. Release Date: 1984-05-11
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Mature Themes, Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA/SPORTS
Director: Barry Levinson
Cast: Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, ...
Welcome to a world where Father knows best, where Mother cooks dinner, and where Sister and Brother's small missteps are treated with stern-but-kind lectures. It's a realm where everyone is nice to one another, where neighbors greet each other...
U.S. Release Date: 1998-10-23
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Situations, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA/COMEDY
Director: Gary Ross
Cast: Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, Jeff Daniels, ...
When Disney mothballed traditional animation in 2004 following a series of disappointing box office underperformers, the blame was placed upon changing tastes - that viewers preferred the more eye-popping style of computer-generated images to the "...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-12-11
MPAA Rating: "G"
Genre: ANIMATED
Director: Ron Clements, John Musker
Cast: (voices) Anika Noni Rose, Terrence Howard, Oprah Winfrey, ...
Seabiscuit is the great hope of the adult movie-going audience: a summer motion picture that is not designed to appeal to teenage boys. Ordinarily, one might think it would be a risk on Universal's part to release the movie in late July, but the a...
U.S. Release Date: 2003-07-25
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Situations, Mature Themes)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Gary Ross
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Chris Cooper, Tobey Maguire, ...
Ever wonder how toys apparently get from one place to another with no human help? Toy Story, Disney's first feature-length foray into computer animation, postulates that they do it all by themselves. Toys have their own magical world which comes ...
U.S. Release Date: 1995-11-22
MPAA Rating: "G" (Nothing Objectionable)
Genre: ANIMATED
Director: John Lasseter
Cast: (voices) Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, ...
Four years ago, the release of Toy Story forever changed the face of animated motion pictures. The astonishing, three-dimensional quality of John Lasseter's work amazed both average movie-goers and hard-to-impress critics. Now, in 1999, the toys a...
U.S. Release Date: 1999-11-24
MPAA Rating: "G" (Nothing Objectionable)
Genre: ANIMATED
Director: John Lasseter, Lee Unkrich, Ash Brannon
Cast: (voices) Tom Hanks, Kelsey Grammer, Joan Cusack, ...
Seen in standard (non-IMAX) 3-D. Pixar has done it again, extending an amazing streak of successes that stretches all the way back to the original Toy Story, which changed the face of feature length animation when it reached theaters in 1995. N...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-06-18
MPAA Rating: "G"
Genre: ANIMATED
Director: Lee Unkrich
Cast: (voices) Tom Hanks, Estelle Harris, Jodi Benson, ...