# Recommend me some movies I can watch with a 7 year old girl

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**Created:** [March 12, 2006, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-movies-i-can-watch-with-a-7-year-old-girl/347988 "2006-03-12T00:42:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2006, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-movies-i-can-watch-with-a-7-year-old-girl/347988/81 "2006-03-15T09:45:39Z")

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I tend to think that most of you aren’t giving seven year olds enough credit…

I’d offer:

Groundhog Day \<-- seriously  
Star Wars trilogy \<-- I’m male, but saw SW in the theater at 7 and LOVED IT  
Superman  
Back to the Future  
The Wedding Singer \<-- maybe? depending?  
You get the point…

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**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2006, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-movies-i-can-watch-with-a-7-year-old-girl/347988/82 "2006-03-15T16:05:55Z")

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I found it a bit surprising but our son enjoyed [Father Goose](http://http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058092/) were Cary Grant is a reluctant plane-spotter in WWII and has to keep a school teacher and her young girl students safe.

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**Author:** ![batsto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@batsto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/batsto)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2006, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-movies-i-can-watch-with-a-7-year-old-girl/347988/83 "2006-03-15T19:07:04Z")

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Groundhog Day \<-- watched this already, she hated it as much as I did.  
Star Wars trilogy \<-- I saw this at 7, but my daughter scares easily and we tried watching it once. Vader scared the crap out of her.  
Superman\<–already watched it, she liked it OK but the beginning was too slow moving and she lost interest. She liked Spider-Man much better. (I know, why is the Green Goblin OK and Darth Vader isn’t? Beats me.)  
Back to the Future \<\<saw it a few weeks ago, she liked it.  
The Wedding Singer \<-- I don’t know—I don’t recall how much adult humor was in this. She knows Adam Sandler from 50 First Dates, which she liked.

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**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2006, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-movies-i-can-watch-with-a-7-year-old-girl/347988/84 "2006-03-15T19:20:02Z")

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> [@batsto](#):
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> The Wedding Singer ← I don’t know—I don’t recall how much adult humor was in this.

Implied affairs, fleeting violence, occasional profanity and an instance of rough language. More appropriate for a teen.

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2006, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-movies-i-can-watch-with-a-7-year-old-girl/347988/85 "2006-03-15T20:09:08Z")

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[The Borrowers](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118755/)  
[Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059797/)  
[Monte Carlo or Bust (aka Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064688/)  
[The Great Race](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059243/) (if either of you can sit still for nearly three hours ;))

I was eight when I first saw [Silver Streak](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075223/) and [Smokey and the Bandit](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076729/); 10 for [Every Which Way But Loose](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077523/).

> [@Plynck](#):
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> How about [_“Fly Away Home”_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116329/) ? A young girl loses her mother (early in the film, may be a bit traumatic), and in turn adopts a gaggle of geese.

It might be corny but it really happened! The movie stays really close to the actual story up until the last half hour or so.

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