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Saturday, July 12, 2008 12:00 AM

The ultimate family DVD list

We asked; you answered. Here's the most-awesome-ever summertime list of offbeat, kid-friendly movies available on DVD -- as chosen (mostly) by Salon readers.
Andrew O'Hehir

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  • Sunday, July 13, 2008 12:10 AM

    From Joan Walsh

    Wow, this list just keeps getting better. Some posters reminded me of a time when intergenerational movies were crucial to our family -- we had just moved from NY to Milwaukee in 1972, my siblings and I were 13, 12 and 7, and we were mostly hanging out with my grandmother in a hotel for 5 days while our parents got the house in order. Just on TV we were lucky enough to have A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A Patch of Blue, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and Raisin in the Sun -- social issues and tragedy in black, white and Irish-American (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn was my mother's favorite movie growing up). We were enthralled.

    Oh, I would also add Into the West and one of my favorite movies ever, Elf. It's not just for Christmas!

    —Joan Walsh Read Joan Walsh's other letters

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