161. The Polar Express
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Adventure
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Actors: Tom Hanks, Leslie Harter Zemeckis, Eddie Deezen, Nona Gaye, Peter Scolari, Jimmy 'Jax' Pinchak
Plot: Based on the book, when a boy who doubts Santa exists stays up Christmas Eve for the arrival of the jolly man, he is instead greeted by a steam-powered train headed for the North Pole.
162. Animal Farm
Year of Release: 1954
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Joy Batchelor, John Halas
Actors: Gordon Heath, Maurice Denham
Plot: British animation based on the book of the same name by George Orwell, it tells the story of how farm animals revolt against their human owner. The animals then try to establish an Utopian society but things go awry.
163. Waking Life
Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Richard Linklater
Actors: Wiley Wiggins, Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Caveh Zahedi, Robert C. Solomon, Adam Goldberg
164. Oliver & Company
Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Family
MPAA Rating: G
Director: George Scribner
Actors: Joseph Lawrence, Billy Joel, Cheech Marin, Richard Mulligan, Dom DeLuise, Robert Loggia
Plot: An orphan kitten befriends a group of stray dogs.
165. Chicken Run
Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Adventure
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Nick Park, Peter Lord
Actors: Phil Daniels, Mel Gibson, Miranda Richardson, Timothy Spall, Imelda Staunton, Lynn Ferguson
Plot: Greedy farm owner Mrs. Tweedy runs her 1950s Yorkshire poultry ranch like a P.O.W. camp, pushing the resident chickens ever closer to unrest. Head chicken Ginger plots to free the birds from the farm, which will soon morph into a chicken-pot-pie factory. But after several failed attempts, she asks a dashing rooster for help.
166. The Last Unicorn
Year of Release: 1982
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Family
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr.
Actors: Alan Arkin, Jeff Bridges, Mia Farrow, Angela Lansbury, Christopher Lee, Tammy Grimes
Plot: A Unicorn hears that she is the last of her kind and leaves her forest to
find others. Schmendrick, a clumsy magician is travelling with a witch who
chances upon the unicorn and takes her captive. Schmendrick frees her and
discovers that she is on a journey to find the other unicorns which have
gone missing.
167. The Rescuers Down Under
Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Adventure
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Hendel Butoy, Mike Gabriel
Actors: Bob Newhart, Eva Gabor, John Candy, Tristan Rogers, George C. Scott, Adam Ryen
Plot: Bernard and Biana set off on another adventure, this time to save a boy and an eagle in the Australian Outback.
168. The Little Prince
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Animation/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Mark Osborne
Actors: Mackenzie Foy, Riley Osborne, Jeff Bridges, James Franco, Marion Cotillard, Rachel McAdams
Plot: A little girl whose mother is pressuring her to join the adult world finds a different world when her eccentric neighbor, The Aviator, introduces her to an extraordinary world limited only by her imagination. This amazing universe is held together by The Little Prince and together they will journey - ultimately leading to a new outlook on life and that human connection and that the most important things that can only be experienced through the heart.
169. Hotel Transylvania
Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Genndy Tartakovsky
Actors: Adam Sandler, Selena Gomez, Andy Samberg, Kevin James, Steve Buscemi, Fran Drescher
Plot: Dracula runs a motel hidden from the human world for his other monstrous friends. When a boy stumbles upon it, and proceeds to fall in love with the count's daughter, he scrambles to keep his business, and family, together.
170. A Scanner Darkly
Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Animation
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Richard Linklater
Actors: Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., Rory Cochrane, Winona Ryder, Woody Harrelson, Mitch Baker
Plot: In the near future, the war on drugs is taking its toll on society. Cops are spying on everyone, including other cops, all to try and clean up drug 'D'. No one is safe from this destructive drug or each other.
