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A Simple Wish
A Simple Wish is a 1997 American family fantasy-comedy directed by Michael Ritchie. It stars Martin Short as the first male fairy godmother, alongside Mara Wilson.
Babe (film)
Babe (1995), Chris Noonan's Australian comedy-drama adapted from Dick King-Smith's The Sheep-Pig, about a piglet who herds sheep; won the Best Visual Effects Oscar, earned $250 million, used 970 trained animals.
Baby Geniuses
Baby Geniuses is a 1999 American family comedy directed by Bob Clark and starring Kathleen Turner and Christopher Lloyd, in which scientists try to decode the secret language of babies.
Bathing (1999 film)
Bathing, internationally released as Shower (洗澡, Xizao), is Zhang Yang's 1999 Chinese comedy-drama about a Beijing bathhouse, father-son bonds, and demolition-driven modernization; it won FIPRESCI at Toronto and the Golden Alexander at Thessaloniki.
Beverly Hills Ninja
Beverly Hills Ninja is a 1997 American slapstick comedy directed by Dennis Dugan, starring Chris Farley as a clumsy ninja investigating a Beverly Hills murder.
Big Daddy (1999 film)
Big Daddy is a 1999 American comedy directed by Dennis Dugan, starring Adam Sandler as a lazy law school graduate who adopts a five-year-old boy to impress his girlfriend.
Billy Madison
Billy Madison is a 1995 American comedy starring Adam Sandler and directed by Tamra Davis. The film follows a spoiled heir repeating school to inherit a hotel fortune.
Casper (film)
Casper is a 1995 American live-action family fantasy-comedy directed by Brad Silberling, in which a friendly ghost haunting a Maine mansion befriends the daughter of the ghost therapist hired to exorcise him.
Cats Don't Dance
Cats Don't Dance is a 1997 animated musical from Turner Feature Animation, directed by Mark Dindal, with Randy Newman songs and Gene Kelly choreography, about a cat seeking stardom in 1939 Hollywood; a critical favorite that flopped at the box office.
Doctor Dolittle (1998 film)
Doctor Dolittle (1998) is an American fantasy comedy directed by Betty Thomas, starring Eddie Murphy as a doctor who regains the ability to talk to animals. Released by 20th Century Fox June 26, 1998; PG-13, 85 minutes, $144.2 million US gross.
Dunston Checks In
Dunston Checks In is a 1996 American family comedy directed by Ken Kwapis and starring Jason Alexander, Faye Dunaway, and Rupert Everett, about an orangutan in a New York hotel.
Ever After
Ever After: A Cinderella Story is Andy Tennant's 1998 realistic retelling of Cinderella, starring Drew Barrymore as Danielle de Barbarac, Anjelica Huston, and Dougray Scott, set in Renaissance France with Leonardo da Vinci replacing the fairy godmother.
First Kid
First Kid is a 1996 Walt Disney comedy directed by David Mickey Evans, starring Sinbad as Secret Service agent Sam Simms guarding President's son Luke (Brock Pierce); 101 min, PG, $26.5M US gross.
Heavyweights
Heavyweights is a 1995 American family comedy directed by Steven Brill and co-written by Judd Apatow, about overweight boys at Camp Hope whose summer is upended by a fitness fanatic.
Home for the Holidays (1995 film)
Home for the Holidays is a 1995 American comedy-drama directed by Jodie Foster, starring Holly Hunter as a single mother visiting her family for Thanksgiving.
I'll Be Home for Christmas (1998 film)
I'll Be Home for Christmas (1998) is a Walt Disney Pictures Christmas comedy directed by Arlene Sanford, starring Jonathan Taylor Thomas as Jake Wilkinson, a student stranded in the California desert in a Santa suit who must reach New York by Christmas Eve to claim a vintage Porsche; 86 minutes, rated PG.
Jack Frost (1998 film)
Jack Frost is a 1998 American comedy-drama directed by Troy Miller, starring Michael Keaton as a musician who returns as a snowman to reconnect with his son.
Jingle All the Way
Jingle All the Way is a 1996 American Christmas comedy directed by Brian Levant, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sinbad as rival fathers chasing the season's hottest toy.
Jungle 2 Jungle
Jungle 2 Jungle, also known in French markets as Un Indien à New York, is a 1997 Walt Disney Pictures family comedy directed by John Pasquin, starring Tim Allen and Sam Huntington; a remake of Un indien dans la ville that grossed $59.9M in the US.
Kazaam
Kazaam is a 1996 Touchstone fantasy comedy starring Shaquille O'Neal as a 3,000-year-old rapping genie freed from a boom box by 12-year-old Max Connor; directed by Paul Michael Glaser, grossed $18.9M, critically panned, and confused with a nonexistent Sinbad film "Shazaam".
Kolya
Kolya (Kolja) is a 1996 Czech-British-French comedy-drama directed by Jan Svěrák from a screenplay by his father Zdeněk Svěrák, who stars as cellist František Louka. It won the 1997 Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film.
Liar Liar
Liar Liar is a 1997 American fantasy comedy directed by Tom Shadyac, in which Jim Carrey plays a divorce attorney physically unable to lie for 24 hours.
Madeline (1998 film)
Madeline is a 1998 live-action family comedy directed by Daisy von Scherler Mayer, starring Hatty Jones as the fearless Parisian schoolgirl from Ludwig Bemelmans' classic children's books.
Major Payne
Major Payne is a 1995 American military comedy directed by Nick Castle, starring Damon Wayans as a Marine commanding a boys' military academy's junior ROTC unit.
Michael (1996 film)
Michael is a 1996 American comedy-drama directed by Nora Ephron, in which John Travolta plays the archangel Michael, discovered at a rural Iowa motel by Chicago tabloid reporters.
Paulie
Paulie is a 1998 American family comedy-drama about a talking conure parrot who searches across the United States for the girl who raised him, directed by John Roberts for DreamWorks.
Shower (洗澡) (1999 film)
Shower (洗澡, Xizao) is a 1999 Chinese comedy-drama directed by Zhang Yang, set in a Beijing hutong bathhouse run by Old Liu and his sons Da Ming and Er Ming, facing demolition; it won the San Sebastián Silver Seashell for Best Director.
Soul Food (film)
Soul Food (1997) is a comedy-drama written and directed by George Tillman Jr., starring Vanessa Williams, Vivica A. Fox, and Nia Long, about a Chicago family's Sunday dinners after the matriarch's coma; it grossed $43.5M and spawned a Showtime series.
Stepmom (1998 film)
Stepmom is a 1998 American comedy-drama directed by Chris Columbus, in which Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon play a girlfriend and ex-wife who move from hostility to cooperation after a cancer diagnosis.
Stuart Little (film)
Stuart Little (1999) is a live-action/CGI family comedy directed by Rob Minkoff, based on E.B. White's 1945 novel, starring Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie, and the voice of Michael J. Fox; it grossed over $300 million worldwide and spawned two sequels.