My early years were extremely light on the movie front.
(Which is totally fine; I don’t think I missed out on a whole lot by spending such a small amount of screen time.)
But it does make it a little hard to answer this prompt! It might be easier just to list the movies I remember watching.
I think the only movie we owned was The Sound of Music, which is my mom’s favorite movie. So, I did watch that one more than once.
I know I watched the Anne of Green Gables movies multiple times as well, mostly at sleepovers.
And I already wrote about watching Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken.
I know I saw some Disney movies, like Cinderella and Snow White, and when I was a teenager and started babysitting, I saw some of the current Disney movies (Aladdin was new at the time!).
Other than that, I can’t remember many other movies I watched as a child, though if we get into the teen years, there are a few more (like Shadowlands, the A&E Pride and Prejudice series, Emma Thompson’s Sense and Sensibility, and the original Little Women movie with Winona Ryder).
Disney’s animated Robin Hood. You know, the one with the foxes. I still love that movie. I hear they’re going to re-make it, and that alarms me.
I LOVE THE SOUND OF MUSIC (said for the people in the back). Is my favorite movie as an adult. As a child, my favorite movie would have been the The Wizard of Oz.
I had a few. The Magic of Lassie, Savanah Smiles, and Cloak and Dagger. I rewatched them all dozens of times!
When I was a kid, the only way to Waugh a movie was either in the theater or on TV. The very first movie I saw in the theater was the original 101 Dalmatians – first run in 1960! It’s still one of my favorites.
Oh good grief – WATCH not Waugh. Heavy sigh.
We didn’t watch much of anything. I remember watching a few movies (Sound of Music and the animated Robin Hood among them!), but nothing I would call a favorite. I didn’t have a favorite movie until I saw Princess Bride as a fairly oldish kid, which is my enduring favorite, though the book is still way better.
I almost said The Princess Bride, except I didn’t consider that much of a “childhood” movie. Did you know a re-make of that is in the works, too? Depressing.
Oh no. Eesh. I thought that was a passing thought that wasn’t real. I hope it never happens.
As an older kid, my favorite movie was Home Alone. I remember it being on TV every year Thanksgiving night and my mom and I would watch it as we spread out the Black Friday ads and made our Christmas shopping plans for the next morning. I still love that movie.
A tie for Anne of Green Gables and The Sound of Music. Pretty sure I still have both memorized!
My daughter is currently watching Little Women over and over. It’s the PBS miniseries version. It’s SO well done. Watch it immediately. It’s on Amazon.
My favorite childhood movie was E.T.
I was eight when it came out and we saw it at the drive-in 🙂
Being a kid in the 80s was awesome!
Funny that you call Little Women with Wynonna Ryder the original. There were two versions before that. The first had Katherine Hepburn as Jo and Elizabeth Taylor as Amy. The second had June Allison as Jo. I think there have been more movie versions of that well loved book than an other.