Best Family movies of 1996

Actors : Joanna Lumley, Paul Terry, Pete Postlethwaite, Simon Callow,
Directors : Henry Selick,

An orphan, who lives with his two cruel aunts, befriends anthropomorphic bugs who live inside a giant peach, and they embark on a journey to New York City.

Actors : Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rita Wilson, Phil Hartman, Sinbad,
Directors : Brian Levant,

A father vows to get his son a Turbo Man action figure for Christmas, however, every store is sold out of them, and he must travel all over town and compete with everybody else in order to find one.

Actors : Shaquille O'Neal, Ally Walker, Francis Capra, James Acheson,
Directors : Paul Michael Glaser,

A troubled kid inadvertently releases a genie, who must grant him any three wishes he requests.

Actors : Faye Dunaway, Eric Lloyd, Rupert Everett, Jason Alexander,
Directors : Ken Kwapis,

A young boy befriends a larcenous orangutan in a luxury hotel.

Actors : Dana Delany, Anna Paquin, Terry Kinney, Jeff Daniels,
Directors : Carroll Ballard,

A father and daughter decide to attempt to lead a flock of orphaned Canada Geese south by air.

Actors : Mary Kay Bergman, Corey Burton, Demi Moore, Jason Alexander,

A deformed bell-ringer must assert his independence from a vicious government minister in order to help his friend, a gypsy dancer.

Actors : Embeth Davidtz, Mara Wilson, Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman,
Directors : Danny DeVito,

Story of a wonderful little girl, who happens to be a genius, and her wonderful teacher vs. the worst parents ever and the worst school principal imaginable.

Actors : Timothy Busfield, Brock Pierce, Blake Boyd, Sinbad,
Directors : David Mickey Evans,

A former boxer turned Secret Service agent is assigned to protect the President's son, who seems determined to make life difficult for his new protector.

Actors : Gene Ross, Paul Hewitt, Matt LeBlanc, Jayne Brook,
Directors : Bill Couturié,

A trained chimpanzee plays third base for a minor-league baseball team.

Actors : Matthew McConaughey, Bill Murray, Jerry Adler, Richard Alan Baker,
Directors : Howard Franklin,

A motivational speaker discovers that the inheritance his father left for him is in the form of an elephant.

Actors : Martin Landau, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Geneviève Bujold, Udo Kier,
Directors : Steve Barron,

One of puppet-maker Geppetto's creations comes magically to life. This puppet, Pinocchio, has one major desire and that is to become a real boy someday. In order to accomplish this goal he ...

Actors : Whoopi Goldberg, Haley Joel Osment, Andrea Martin, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Norman Jewison,

Recently orphaned, a young boy is taken in by his godmother who is shocked to realize that she can see the boy's imaginary friend: a flamboyant, French magician named Bogus.

Actors : Michael J. Fox, Ralph Waite, Sally Field, Al Michaels,
Directors : David R. Ellis,

Shadow, Sassy, and Chance have to find their way home after they become stranded at the San Francisco International Airport as their owners fly to Canada on vacation.

Actors : Thora Birch, Dirk Benedict, Vincent Kartheiser, Charlton Heston,
Directors : Fraser C. Heston,

While searching for their missing father in the mountains of Alaska, two siblings come across a baby polar bear on the run from a pair of poachers.

Actors : Paul Hogan, Elijah Wood, Jonathan Banks, Robert Deacon,
Directors : Alan Shapiro,

Sandy Ricks is sent by his mom to Coral Key, a rustic island in the Florida keys, to spend the summer with his uncle Porter Ricks. Sandy dislikes everything about his new environment until ...

Actors : Rosie O'Donnell, Vanessa Lee Chester, Gregory Smith, Michelle Trachtenberg,
Directors : Bronwen Hughes,

Harriet M. Welsch is a spy. But when Harriet's friends find her secret notebook the tables are turned on her. Can she win her friends back and still keep on going with the spy business?

Actors : Kyle Howard, Kevin Pollak, Jamie Lee Curtis, Herbert Russell,
Directors : Harry Winer,

A group of children, desperate to keep their various parents from getting divorces, kidnap them and hold them prisoner in a basement in order to force them to reconcile.

Actors : Sheena Easton, Bebe Neuwirth, Charlie Sheen, Dom DeLuise,

Charlie and Itchy return to Earth to find Gabriel's Horn, but along the way meet up with a young boy named David, who ran away from home.

Actors : Steve Coogan, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Antony Sher,
Directors : Terry Jones,

Mole's underground home is bought by the Weasels from wealthy landowner Mr. Toad and Mole is thrown out. He and Rat start to fight to get his home back from evil Weasels.

Actors : Scott Wilson, Bonnie Bartlett, Michael Moriarty, Blake Heron,
Directors : Dale Rosenbloom,

Marty Preston, a small-town Southern boy, must rescue a young beagle from abusive owner and recluse Judd Travers.