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Whimsical Movies: Summaries & Endings Explained
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Dark Star
1974 · Sci-Fi
Sleeper
1973 · Sci-Fi
A Very Merry Cricket
1973 · Family
Miracle on 34th Street
1973 · Family
Pushing Up Daisies
1973 · Action
Robin Hood
1973 · Adventure
The Mini-Munsters
1973 · Horror
A Slightly Pregnant Man
1973 · Comedy
I Don’t Know Much, But I’ll Say Everything
1973 · Comedy
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
1973 · Mystery
Incorrigible Liar
1973 · Comedy
The House in Nightmare Park
1973 · Comedy
Schlock
1973 · Comedy
On the Trail of the Bremen Town Musicians
1973 · Adventure
Ghost in the Noonday Sun
1973 · Comedy
Travels with My Aunt
1972 · Comedy
Once Upon a Mattress
1972 · Music
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
1972 · Fantasy
Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny
1972 · Fantasy
Yogi’s Ark Lark
1972 · Comedy
Deadhead Miles
1972 · Comedy
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask
1972 · Comedy
Greaser’s Palace
1972 · Western
Now You See Him, Now You Don’t
1972 · Fantasy
Bumbarash
1972 · Comedy
The Muppet Musicians of Bremen
1972 · Family
Hans Christian Andersen’s The Emperor’s New Clothes
1972 · Family
The Lorax
1972 · Animation
Up the Chastity Belt
1972 · Comedy
The Three Robbers
1972 · Animation
Laksamana Do Re Mi
1972 · Comedy
Mooch Goes to Hollywood
1971 · Family
The Boy Friend
1971 · Romance
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
1971 · Adventure
Delusions of Grandeur
1971 · Comedy
Daisy Town
1971 · Western
The Cat in the Hat
1971 · Family
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
1971 · Fantasy
They Might Be Giants
1971 · Mystery
Here Comes Peter Cottontail
1971 · Animation
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