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A brilliant six-year-old book-lover discovers she has telekinetic powers — and a tyrannical principal to use them on. Danny DeVito directed, co-produced, narrated, and played the crooked used-car-salesman dad in this 1996 Roald Dahl adaptation, which stumbled at the box office and then became a VHS staple kids rewatched forever.
The movie where your boring parents turned out to be retired spies — and when they got kidnapped, you and your sibling became the heroes. Robert Rodriguez wrote, directed, and edited his 2001 gadget caper himself, packing it with jetpacks, a surreal TV-host villain, and henchmen made entirely of thumbs.
The guy from The Fast and the Furious in a minivan, doing a bedtime routine called the Peter Panda dance with complete tactical seriousness. The Pacifier put Vin Diesel's biceps in charge of five kids and a duck, and every rental shelf and cable afternoon of 2005 made sure you saw it.
One eleven-year-old, two accents, one very elaborate scheme. Lindsay Lohan's double-role debut as twins separated at birth — reunited at summer camp and determined to swap lives and re-trap their parents — turned a 1961 Disney classic into a 90s comfort-movie institution.