18 Movies Starring Abigail Breslin

Signs

Signs

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-08-02

Languages:

English, Portuguese

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

106 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (253450 Reviews)

Fullplot:

Preacher Graham Hess, played by Mel Gibson, has lost his faith in God after his wife dies in a brutal car accident. He along with his son and daughter and his brother Merrill moves into a farmhouse. Crop circles begin to appear in their corn fields which Graham dismisses as mischief by miscreants. After hearing strange noises and watching news coverage on crop circles appearing all over the world, the family begins to suspect of extraterrestrial activities. Now they must stick together and believe, as a family to survive the ordeal and find a way to escape from the clutches of the alien invaders.

Chestnut: Hero of Central Park

Chestnut: Hero of Central Park

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-05-12

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

83 min

Rated:

G

IMDB Ratings:

5.5 (729 Reviews)

Director:

Robert Vince

Genres:

Family

Fullplot:

Two young girls from an orphanage are adopted by a family in New York. The only problem is the apartment they move two doesn't allow dogs. The girls try to sneak a puppy the find into the home and keep it hidden. chestnut (a Great Dane) grows and grows while getting into more more and more trouble.

Nim's Island

Nim's Island

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-04-04

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

96 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

(26575 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Joseph Kwong (screenplay)

Paula Mazur (screenplay)

Mark Levin (screenplay)

Jennifer Flackett (screenplay)

Wendy Orr (novel)

Fullplot:

Nim Rusoe is a girl who joins her father, a scientist, when he does research on marine life on an island. It's just the two of them but she spends her time making friends with all the animals she encounters, chatting on the computer and reading the adventure books of Alex Rover. When her father goes to do some research but when a storm strikes the island he doesn't come back, she gets worried and frightened. She then e-mails Alex Rover hoping that he will come but what she doesn't know is that Alex Rover is a woman who is agoraphobic and germaphobic. But her creation comes to life and eggs her to go. Unfortunately she has never gone anywhere before and is denied her necessities like her sanitary gel by the customs officer at the airport. In the meantime, Nim tries to be strong while waiting for Alex to arrive.

Keane

Keane

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2005-09-21

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

100 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (4540 Reviews)

Director:

Lodge Kerrigan

Fullplot:

A man in his early 30s (Keane) struggles with the supposed loss of his daughter from the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York, while fighting serious battles with schizophrenia. We can never be sure if the loss is real or imaginary; or whether his overt interest in helping young girls is innocent and of a fatherly nature, or is of a darker, scarier motive.

Little Miss Sunshine

Little Miss Sunshine

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-08-18

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

101 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.9 (329809 Reviews)

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Fullplot:

In Albuquerque Sheryl Hoover brings her suicidal brother Frank to the breast of her dysfunctional and emotionally bankrupted family. Frank is homosexual, an expert in Proust. He tried to commit suicide when he was rejected by his boyfriend and his great competitor became renowned and recognized as number one in the field of Proust. Sheryl's husband Richard is unsuccessfully trying to sell his self-help and self-improvement technique using nine steps to reach success, but he is actually a complete loser. Her son Dwayne has taken a vow of silence as a follower of Nietzsche and aims to be a jet pilot. Dwayne's grandfather Edwin was sent away from the institution for elders (Sunset Manor) and is addicted in heroin. When her seven-year-old daughter Olive has a chance to dispute the Little Miss Sunshine pageant in Redondo Beach, California, the whole family travels together in their old Volkswagen Type 2 (Kombi) in a funny journey of hope of winning the talent contest and to make a dream come true.

No Reservations

No Reservations

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-07-27

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, Australia

Runtime:

104 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (55821 Reviews)

Director:

Scott Hicks

Cast:

Writer:

Carol Fuchs (screenplay)

Sandra Nettelbeck (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A master chef, Kate, lives her life like she runs the kitchen at upscale 22 Bleecker Restaurant in Manhattan--with a no-nonsense intensity that both captivates and intimidates everyone around her. With breathtaking precision, she powers through each hectic shift, coordinating hundreds of meals, preparing delicate sauces, seasoning and simmering each dish to absolute perfection.

Kit Kittredge: An American Girl

Kit Kittredge: An American Girl

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-07-02

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, Canada

Runtime:

101 min

Rated:

G

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (4473 Reviews)

Director:

Patricia Rozema

Genres:

DramaFamily

Cast:

Writer:

Ann Peacock

Valerie Tripp (Kit Kittredge stories)

Fullplot:

'Kit Kittredge: An American Mystery' centers around a young girl living in the struggles of the Great Depression. 10 year old Kit lives in a boarding house her parents own in Cincinnati, Ohio. She has a passion for writing, & dreams of having something of hers put in the local paper someday. With the help of her friends, Sterling & Ruthie, will her dream finally come true?

My Sister's Keeper

My Sister's Keeper

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-06-26

Languages:

English, Croatian

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

109 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (68478 Reviews)

Director:

Nick Cassavetes

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Jeremy Leven (screenplay)

Nick Cassavetes (screenplay)

Jodi Picoult (novel)

Fullplot:

In Los Angeles, the eleven year old Anna Fitzgerald seeks the successful lawyer Campbell Alexander trying to hire him to earn medical emancipation from her mother Sara that wants Anna to donate her kidney to her sister. She tells the lawyer the story of her family after the discovery that her older sister Kate has had leukemia; how she was conceived by in vitro fertilization to become a donor; and the medical procedures she has been submitted since she was five years old to donate to her sister. Campbell accepts to work pro bono and the obsessed Sara decides to go to court to force Anna to help her sister.

Zombieland

Zombieland

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-10-02

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

88 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (350818 Reviews)

Director:

Ruben Fleischer

Fullplot:

Searching for family. In the early twenty-first century, zombies have taken over America. A shy and inexperienced college student in Texas has survived by following his 30 rules: such as "look in the back seat," "double-tap," "avoid public restrooms." He decides to travel to Ohio to see if his parents are alive. He gets a ride with a boisterous zombie-hating good-old boy headed for Florida, and soon they confront a young woman whose sister has been bitten by a zombie and wants to be put out of her misery. The sisters were headed to an LA amusement park they've heard is zombie free. Can the kid from Ohio get to his family? And what about rule thirty one?

Rango

Rango

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-03-04

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

107 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (166382 Reviews)

Director:

Gore Verbinski

Cast:

Writer:

John Logan

John Logan (story)

Gore Verbinski (story)

James Ward Byrkit (story)

Fullplot:

Rango is a pet chameleon always on the lookout for action and adventure, except the fake kind, where he directs it and acts in it. After a car accident, he winds up in an old western town called Dirt. What this town needs the most is water, but they also need a hero and a sheriff. The thirsty Rango instantly takes on the role of both and selfishly agrees to take on the case of their missing water.

Zambezia

Zambezia

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2012-12-28

Languages:

English

Countries:

South Africa

Runtime:

83 min

Rated:

G

IMDB Ratings:

5.8 (4826 Reviews)

Director:

Wayne Thornley

Cast:

Writer:

Camilla Bubna-Kasteliz (script editor)

Andrew Cook (screenplay)

Raffaella Delle Donne (screenplay)

Tom Kenny (additional writing material)

Kiel Murray (script consultant)

Brent Palmer (creative development)

Nik Rabinowitz (creative development)

Anthony Silverston (screenplay)

Wayne Thornley (screenplay)

Lindsay van Blerk (additional story material)

Fullplot:

Set in a bustling bird city on the edge of the majestic Victoria Falls, "Zambezia" is the story of Kai - a naève, but high-spirited young falcon who travels to the bird city of "Zambezia" where he discovers the truth about his origins and, in defending the city, learns how to be part of a community.

Janie Jones

Janie Jones

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-04-29

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

114 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (1796 Reviews)

Genres:

DramaMusic

Fullplot:

A young girl who has been abandoned by her former-groupie mother informs a fading rock star that she is his daughter.

Ender's Game

Ender's Game

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-11-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

114 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (167857 Reviews)

Director:

Gavin Hood

Genres:

ActionSci-Fi

Cast:

Writer:

Gavin Hood (screenplay)

Orson Scott Card (based on the book Ender's Game by)

Fullplot:

The Earth was ravaged by the Formics, an alien race seemingly determined to destroy humanity. Seventy years later, the people of Earth remain banded together to prevent their own annihilation from this technologically superior alien species. Ender Wiggin, a quiet but brilliant boy, may become the savior of the human race. He is separated from his beloved sister and his terrifying brother and brought to battle school in orbit around earth. He will be tested and honed into an empathetic killer who begins to despise what he does as he learns to fight in hopes of saving Earth and his family.

Maggie

Maggie

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2015-05-08

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

95 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

5.6 (19469 Reviews)

Director:

Henry Hobson

Fullplot:

After a couple of weeks seeking out his teenage daughter Maggie, Wade finds her in the quarantine wing of a hospital. Maggie has been infected by a lethal outbreak that transforms the victim into a zombie. Wade's friend Dr. Vern Kaplan releases Maggie to spend her last days with Wade and her family. Her stepmother Caroline asks Wade to take their little kids to her sister's house to keep them safe. While Maggie is slowly transformed, Wade stays with her protecting Maggie. But Dr. Vern warns him that the moment that he will have to take an ultimate decision is closer.

The Call

The Call

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-03-15

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

94 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (80721 Reviews)

Director:

Brad Anderson

Cast:

Writer:

Richard D'Ovidio (screenplay)

Richard D'Ovidio (story)

Nicole D'Ovidio (story)

Jon Bokenkamp (story)

Fullplot:

Jordan Turner (Halle Berry) is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue. But then teenager Casey Welson (Abigail Breslin) is abducted in the back of a man's car and calls 911. And Jordan is the one called upon to use all of her experience, insights and quick thinking to help Casey escape, and not just to save Casey, but to make sure the man is brought to justice.

Deadly Sisters

Deadly Sisters

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-10-07

Languages:

English

Countries:

Canada

Runtime:

100 min

IMDB Ratings:

5.5 (3355 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Fab Filippo (screenplay)

Adam Till (screenplay)

Fullplot:

On January 18, 2003, police, alerted by a frantic 911 call from a distraught pair of teenage girls, arrived at the girls Toronto area town house to find their mother dead. It appeared the 44-year-old alcoholic, having slipped into a booze-and-pill stupor, drowned in her own bathwater. The death was ruled accidental by the authorities. In the months that followed, however, police were alerted to rumours and reports that the teenagers had been gossiping to friends about the accident. Police began piecing together rumours that suggested the teens might have had a hand in their mother's death. In fact, rather than an accident, the story that emerged portrayed the two teens as cold-blooded, premeditated killers.

Haunter

Haunter

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-10-17

Languages:

English

Countries:

Canada, France

Runtime:

97 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

5.9 (10760 Reviews)

Director:

Vincenzo Natali

Fullplot:

In 1985, on the eve of her sixteenth birthday, Lisa discovers that she is stuck in time, living the same day over and over with her parents Bruce and Carol and her little brother Robbie. Soon she learns that they are dead and trapped on the day that they were murdered but she finds that she can contact other people. Out of the blue, a stranger comes to her house telling that he is going to fix the telephone line but indeed to threaten her to stop the contacts. Lisa finds that she is contacting victims of the killer in different timelines including the future, and the killer's name is Oscar. Will be possible to Lisa to stop the evil Oscar?

Wicked Blood

Wicked Blood

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-03-04

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

92 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

5.4 (1602 Reviews)

Director:

Mark Young

Fullplot:

Hannah Lee Baker is a bright teen girl trapped in the dark Southern underworld of violence and guns, meth labs and vicious biker gangs, and whose only refuge is chess. She lives with Amber, her older sister; and her uncle Donny, an addict. All live in fear of Uncle Frank Stinson, who runs the illegal family business with an iron fist, aided by his psychotic younger brother Bobby. Things change for the worse when Amber falls in love with Wild Bill, a meth trafficker who finds himself at war with Frank. Hannah realizes the only way to save her family is by cleverly scheming to pit one pawn against another in a cunning chess game.

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