Actually forget The Game. I forgot all about the main character watching his dad die in the beggining, though the only thing you see is his dad falling off a building.
I thought I was being clever too.
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Hook…rats. Well, Cpt. Hook gets swallowed by the crocodile at the end, but I doubt he’d be too upset about that.
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Hook runs Rufalo (?), the lost boy in charge while Pan was gone, through with a sword and kills him.
Dumbo
101 Dalmatians (the animated one)
Mary Poppins (well the old banker dies off screen, but he does die laughing)
The Passion
Not true - Alleyn (played by Ben Affleck) mentions Marlowe’s death/murder to Shakespeare: “Not the billing, Will, the bill.” Or something like that. However, it’s only mentioned - Marlowe’s death takes place off stage.
Snicks
I should ask, as there seem to be a lot of suggestions for very good, but adult movies which might bore the kid to tears…How old is he? And, what are his interests?
At this juncture, I’d like to mention that nobody dies in Shallow Hal – the greatest movie of this millennium.
Yeah, how old is this kid? No one dies in Glengarry Glen Ross, but I can’t see it holding the attention of a 10 year-old, either. No one dies in Best in Show, but the humor is probably too “adult” for most kids. And by “adult”, I mean “best understood by those who are 16 or older” and not “fart jokes and boobies”. Plus, Best in Show has some mentions of homosexuality and that slutty woman, which are probably OK for a 14 year-old, but maybe not for a 10 year-old, depending on the parents.
Although The Breakfast Club has been mentioned, I believe that most any 80s teen movie would work:
Sixteen Candles
The Breakfast Club
Pretty in Pink
Some Kind of Wonderful
Weird Science
The Pickup Artist
Although I believe that Hiding Out has a death - isn’t that why John Cryer is “hiding out”?
More’s the pity. Every time Julie Andrews opens her (von) trap, I start rooting for the Nazis.
That said, if I can’t have High Fidelity I want Pleasantville.
Lots of very good answers so far. One thing – to everyone looking for more details on Sheldon, let me clarify: When I originally posted “let’s pretend…”, I mean “Sheldon does not exist”. There is no sheltered kid out there. I’m just looking for opinions on what the best movie death-free movie out there is.
You killed Sheldon?
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Uh, The Producers doesn’t qualify. Remember the big bomb they planted under the crowded theater?
In a manner of speaking. But, it wasn’t caught on film, so it’s ok. 
Does qualify. 
They planted the bomb late at night, after the theater was empty.
“Is this the slow fuse…or the fast fuse?”
Sorry to nitpick but
– in The Apartment, while there’s no death, Shirley McClaine’s character tries to commit suicide
– in Kramer vs. Kramer, Dustin Hoffman’s character mentions a co-worker who just committed suicide
– in The Last Picture Show, an important character–Sam the Lion–dies off-screen.
Oh, SUUUUUUURE!!! NOW you tell me. And I was trying to be kid-centric and everything.
In that case:
An Ideal Husband
The Philadelphia Story
Anything with Tracy & Hepburn
Some Like it Hot
Bull Durham
It Happened One Night
The Natural
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Except the machine gun massacre of all those gangsters that sets the plot in motion.
Star Trek IV (the one with the whales)
Nobody dies. Some people are in dire situations but no deaths.
Chasing Amy - nobody dies and it’s a heck of a way to UNshelter a kid real fast. 
The correct answer to this question, like so many questions involving movies, is The Iron Giant.
You would think this would be easy – just about any comedy, musical, animation…would qualify.
But for completeness, here’s the AFI Top 100 (satisfying the “quality” portion of the criteria), and from the top of my head their suitability:
- Citizen Kane No (Kane)
- Casablanca No
- The Godfather Definitely No
- Gone With the Wind No
- Lawrence of Arabia No
- The Wizard of Oz No (the WWW)
- The Graduate OK
- On the Waterfront Not sure
- Schindler’s List No
- Singin’ In the Rain OK
- It’s a Wonderful Life OK
- Sunset Boulevard No
- The Bridge on the River Kwai No
- Some Like It Hot OK (except for St Valentine’s Day as noted above)
- Star Wars No
- All About Eve OK
- The African Queen OK
- Psycho No
- Chinatown No
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest No
- The Grapes Of Wrath Not sure
- 2001: A Space Odyssey No
- The Maltese Falcon No
- Raging Bull Not sure
- E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial OK
- Dr. Strangelove No
- Bonnie and Clyde No
- Apocalypse Now No
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington OK (I think)
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre No
- Annie Hall OK
- The Godfather Part II No
- High Noon No
- To Kill a Mockingbird No
- It Happened One Night OK
- Midnight Cowboy No
- The Best Years of Our Lives Not sure
- Double Indemnity No
- Doctor Zhivago No
- North By Northwest No
- West Side Story No
- Rear Window No
- King Kong No
- The Birth of a Nation No
- A Streetcar Named Desire OK
- A Clockwork Orange I don’t think anyone actually dies….
- Taxi Driver No
- Jaws No
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs No
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid No
- The Philadelphia Story OK
- From Here to Eternity No
- Amadeus No
- All Quiet on the Western Front No
- The Sound of Music OK
- MAS*H OK (since Painless doesn’t actually die)
- The Third Man No
- Fantasia OK
- Rebel Without A Cause No
- Raiders of the Lost Ark No
- Vertigo No
- Tootsie OK
- Stagecoach No
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind OK
- The Silence of the Lambs good god, No
- Network Not sure
- The Manchurian Candidate no
- An American In Paris OK
- Shane No
- The French Connection no
- Forrest Gump No
- Ben-Hur No
- Wuthering Heights No
- The Gold Rush OK
- Dances With Wolves No
- City Lights Not sure
- American Graffiti OK, if you don’t count the “where are they now” at the end.
- Rocky OK
- The Deer Hunter No
- The Wild Bunch No
- Modern Times OK
- Giant OK, I think
- Platoon No
- Fargo No
- Duck Soup OK
- Mutiny on the Bounty No
- Frankenstein No
- Easy Rider No
- Patton No
- The Jazz Singer OK
- My Fair Lady OK
- A Place in the Sun No
- The Apartment OK
- Goodfellas No
- Pulp Fiction No
- The Searchers No
- Bringing Up Baby OK
- Unforgiven No
- Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner OK
- Yankee Doodle Dandy OK
jsc1953, allow me to congratulate you on an ambitious effort. However (there’s always a however, isn’t there?), you have a few flawed passes.
In Yankee Doodle Dandy, Cohan pere dies onscreen.
In The African Queen, the Rev. Samuel Sayer dies.
The reason Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is to replace a senator who died in office.
In Guess Who’s coming to Dinner, Dr. Prentice happens to have lost his wife and son in a traffic accident (admittedly, some years in the past, but it is used to hiighlight his character).
OTOH, in City Lights, there’s no explicit statement that the Blind girl’s grandmother is not still living when The Little Tramp is released from jail.