Experience Childhood: Top 5 Pick-Me-Up Kids Movies Every Adult Will Enjoy
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These five are sure to make you smile on the darkest of days.
Kids movies are a fantastic genre. While they are primarily made for the younger audience, they have the ability to fascinate adults as well, so there's no shame in enjoying a good movie intended for kids. These five classics certainly deserve praise from any adult.
Flight of the Navigator (1986, 6.9 on IMDb)
Available on: Disney+
Starring Joey Cramer, this sci-fi adventure follows David Freeman, a twelve-year-old boy who goes missing in 1978. In 1986, he returns home unharmed and unaged, with no memory of the past eight years. At the same time, a UFO crashes in the neighborhood. It turns out that David has been traveling across the galaxy with aliens who have taught him many things unknown to mankind.
Fly Away Home (1996, 6.9 on IMDb)
Available on: Amazon Prime, Apple TV+
This family adventure drama tells the story of Anna Paquin's Amy Alden, a thirteen-year-old from New Zealand who has just lost her mother and moved to Canada where her estranged father lives with his girlfriend. One day, Amy finds a clutch of wild goose eggs in the construction zone near her father's house. Thanks to Amy's intervention, the eggs are saved and eventually hatch. Now Amy has to take care of the goslings, but winter is coming and the goslings will have to learn to fly in order to survive.
The Bad News Bears (1976, 7.3 on IMDb)
Available on: Amazon Prime, Apple TV+
This sports comedy centers on Morris Buttermaker, a former baseball pitcher with an alcohol addiction who works as a pool cleaner and coaches an amateur children's baseball team in his spare time. The Bears are a bunch of incompetent losers who were kicked off their previous teams. But Morris is determined to turn them into decent players, and luckily there are some talented rookies on the team who can help him.
The Goonies (1985, 7.7 on IMDb)
Available on: Amazon Prime, Apple TV+
This adventure comedy revolves around a group of preteen kids from the Goon Docks neighborhood of Astoria, Oregon. With their homes threatened by foreclosure, the characters embark on a journey to find the lost treasure of the legendary seventeenth-century pirate One-Eyed Willy using a map they found in the attic of one of their houses. Their adventure is fraught with danger – especially since they're not the only ones looking for the gold.
The Sandlot (1993, 7.8 on IMDb)
Available on: Disney+, Hulu, Amazon Prime
Set in 1962, David Mickey Evans' sports comedy follows Scott Smalls, who moves to the San Fernando Valley after finishing fifth grade with his widowed mother and new stepfather, Bill. Scotty is a stranger here and has no friends, but luckily the local kids like baseball and need just one person to complete their team.