10 Family Movies That Are Perfectly Written

A family film has to work on multiple emotional levels at once without showing the seams. That’s why perfect writing in a family movie is one of the hardest things to pull off. For instance, a child should be able to follow the danger, the comedy, the rhythm, the wonder. An adult should feel the ache underneath it, the parental fear, the regret, the loneliness, the moral choice, the little bruises of ordinary life. And the story still has to move cleanly. No dead air. No false note.