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The Boxcar Children

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Four siblings take to the road after their parents die and make a home in an abandoned boxcar.

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Renee Schonfeld Common Sense Media Beautiful, moving animated tale based on classic book series. Rated: 4/5 Nov 4, 2014 Full Review Read all reviews

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Stephen C Successful family animation movie in just 1 hour and 26 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/28/25 Full Review Mindy J I see people giving this a low score for animation, it honestly didn't bother me. My 3 kids from 3-10 in age all loved it. We've read the books many times and they did such a good job. This is such a sweet simple telling of the book. Unlike a lot of kid shows with a million frames per second, flashing lights and changing scenes, this follows along their adventure slowly but is still entertaining and holds your attention. With a lot of shows having their main characters act entitled and bratty the main characters good attitudes and perseverance is refreshing! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/12/25 Full Review arjay m great film the reason this isn't 5 stars is the animation it seems wacky besides that this is a perfect family friendly film. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 09/10/24 Full Review Brooke This is an incredibly unforgettable move, definitely one of my favorites. It does a great job of telling the story of the original book and I have watched it several times. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 12/19/23 Full Review Audience Member The greatest 01 hour: and 26 minutes ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Audience Member 0/10 the animation sucked I have no idea how it has 65% but one time a kid ate a piece of bread and it came out his mouth with no bite,but 7 seconds later there was a bite in the bread. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Four siblings take to the road after their parents die and make a home in an abandoned boxcar.
Director
Daniel Chuba, Mark A.Z. Dippe, Kyungho Jo
Producer
Daniel Chuba, Mark A.Z. Dippe, Michael Liberty, Britt Napier
Screenwriter
Justin Merz
Genre
Kids & Family, Adventure, Animation
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 21, 2016
Runtime
1h 26m
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