Captains Courageous, with Spencer Tracy. Great for anyone, but I think especially good for kids.
Inherit the Wind (for older kids, and do you see I have a thing for Spencer Tracy?)
Quote:
Matthew Harrison Brady: We must not abandon faith! Faith is the most important thing!
Henry Drummond: Then why did God plague us with the capacity to think? Mr. Brady, why do you deny the one thing that sets above the other animals? What other merit have we? The elephant is larger, the horse stronger and swifter, the butterfly more beautiful, the mosquito more prolific, even the sponge is more durable. Or does a sponge think?
Matthew Harrison Brady: I don't know. I'm a man, not a sponge!
Henry Drummond: Do you think a sponge thinks?
Matthew Harrison Brady: If the Lord wishes a sponge to think, it thinks!
Henry Drummond: Does a man have the same privilege as a sponge?
Matthew Harrison Brady: Of course!
Henry Drummond: [Gesturing towards the defendant, Bertram Cates] Then this man wishes to have the same privilege of a sponge, he wishes to think!
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I can't agree enough re: To Kill a Mockingbird.
My nephew, now 20, was a Monty Python fan as a kid (still is) due in large part to me lending him my Monty Python computer game CD.
Caddyshack and Stripes are just timeless freaking classics!