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Free Kids' Movies at the Library!!

 

 

Our movie licensing contracts permit us to provide brief descriptions but do not permit listing the movie titles outside the library or authorized mailing lists. For further information, please contact the library at 785-776-4741 ext. 156.

June 21
10:00 AM and 2:00 PM
Rated PG; 117 Min.
 

The young hero of this story is cursed with bad luck and has been charged with a crime and sentenced to do time at Camp Green Lake.  The tough warden uses an unusual method of discipline - all of its wards must dig large holes every day under the guise of building character. But perhaps there is another reason to dig relentlessly in this patch of desert. Based on the Newbery award winning novel by Louis Sachar.


June 28 at 2:00 PM
Rated PG; 80 Min.
 

A magical stop-motion animated adventure based on a book by Roald Dahl.  A young boy accidentally spills some magic crocodile tongues near an old tree, and the fruit grows as big as a house.  When he meets the human-sized insects who live inside, his adventure is on a roll.


July 5
10:00 AM and 2:00 PM
Rated PG; 90 Min.
 

When young Roy moves from Montana to Florida with his family, he ends up befriending two kids who are fighting to protect the home of a group of endangered burrow owls from a real estate developer. Based on a popular children’s book by Carl Hiaasen with a great soundtrack by Jimmy Buffett.


July 12
10:00 AM and 2:00 PM
Rated PG; 94 Min.
 

The sub-zero heroes are back on an incredible adventure in this 3rd animated sequel. The loveable Megalonyx sloth attempts to adopt three abandoned dinosaur eggs. When he is abducted by their real mother and taken to an underground lost world, his friends attempt to rescue him.


July 19
10:00 AM and 2:00 PM
Rated PG; 123 Min.
 

For generations, a community has flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But the city's once powerful generator is failing and the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to flicker. Two kids must risk their lives to uncover the city's age old secret and rescue everyone before it's too late. Based on a novel by Jeanne DuPrau.


July 26 at 2:00 PM
Rated PG; 87 Min.
 

In this animated adventure based on a Raold Dahl novel, an urbane fox is too wild to be a family man and returns to his hen heckling, turkey taking and cider sipping adventures. He tries one more raid on the three nastiest, meanest farmers, and then must help his community survive the farmers' retaliation by digging to safety and freedom.


August 2
10:00 AM and 2:00 PM
Rated PG; 101 Min.

 

A video game's bad guy longs to be as beloved as perfect Fix-It Felix. When a modern, first-person shooter game arrives, it's his ticket to heroism and happiness. He sneaks into the game with a simple plan -- win a medal -- but soon wrecks everything, and accidentally unleashes a deadly enemy that threatens every game in the arcade.


August 9 at 2:00 PM  

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