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Summary: A young boy and his grandmother have a run-in with a coven of witches and their leader.
Runtime: 1 h 46 min
MPAA: PG

Language: English
Domestic: $ 203,571
International: $ 29,100,000
Summary: An orphan little girl befriends a benevolent giant who takes her to Giant Country, where they attempt to stop the man-eating giants that are invading the human world.
Runtime: 1 h 57 min
MPAA: PG

Movie budget: $ 140,000,000
Domestic: $ 55,483,770
International: $ 139,759,641
Summary: An urbane fox cannot resist returning to his farm raiding ways and then must help his community survive the farmers' retaliation.
Runtime: 1 h 27 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 40,000,000
Domestic: $ 21,002,919
International: $ 37,088,840
Summary: Charlie, a young boy from an impoverished family, and four other kids win a tour of an amazing chocolate factory run by an imaginative chocolatier, Willy Wonka, and his staff of Oompa-Loompas.
Runtime: 1 h 55 min
MPAA: PG

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 150,000,000
Domestic: $ 206,459,076
International: $ 268,509,687
Summary: An orphan who lives with his two cruel aunts befriends anthropomorphic bugs who live inside a giant peach, and they embark on a journey to New York City.
Runtime: 1 h 19 min
MPAA: PG

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 38,000,000
Domestic: $ 28,946,127
Summary: Young lovers, and soon to wed, Hero and Claudio conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles, Benedick and Beatrice, to wed as well.
Runtime: 1 h 51 min
MPAA: PG-13

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 11,000,000
Domestic: $ 22,549,338
Summary: A young boy stumbles onto a witch convention and must stop them, even after he has been turned into a mouse.
Runtime: 1 h 31 min
MPAA: PG

Language: English
Domestic: $ 10,360,553
Summary: A down-on-his-luck inventor turns a broken-down Grand Prix car into a fancy vehicle for his children, and then they go off on a magical fantasy adventure to save their grandfather in a far-off land.
Runtime: 2 h 24 min
MPAA: G

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 10,000,000
Domestic: $ 7,500,000
International: $ 453
Summary: A girl gifted with a keen intellect and psychic powers uses both to deal with her crude, distant family and free her kind teacher from their sadistic headmistress.
Runtime: 1 h 42 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 36,000,000
Domestic: $ 33,459,416
Summary: An altruistic chemist invents a fabric which resists wear and stain as a boon to humanity, but big business and labor realize it must be suppressed for economic reasons.
Runtime: 1 h 25 min
MPAA: Approved

Language: English
Domestic: $ 8,718
International: $ 215
Summary: A member of the House of Lords dies, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son thinks he is Jesus Christ. Their other, somewhat more respectable family members plot to steal the estate from him; murder and mayhem ensue.
Release Date: September 15, 1972
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Runtime: 2 h 34 min
MPAA: PG

Language: English
Summary: A poor but hopeful boy seeks one of the five coveted golden tickets that will send him on a tour of Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory.
Runtime: 1 h 40 min
MPAA: G

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 3,000,000
Domestic: $ 573,368
International: $ 49,493
Summary: Pirate Captain sets out on a mission to defeat his rivals Black Bellamy and Cutlass Liz for the Pirate of the year Award. The quest takes Captain and his crew from the shores of Blood Island to the foggy streets of Victorian London.
Runtime: 1 h 28 min
MPAA: PG

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 55,000,000
Domestic: $ 31,051,126
International: $ 92,018,639
Summary: A naive aristocrat in search of a career becomes caught up in the struggles between his profit-minded uncle and an aggressive labor union.
Runtime: 1 h 45 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Language: English
Summary: An adaptation of the Tony and Olivier award-winning musical. Matilda tells the story of an extraordinary girl who, armed with a sharp mind and a vivid imagination, dares to take a stand to change her story with miraculous results.
Runtime: 1 h 57 min
MPAA: PG

Movie budget: $ 25,000,000