Motivational Movies: Summary

***** Rudy
***** Hoosiers
***** Michael Ballam: The Power of Music to Lift and Teach: BYU Education Week (1998)
***** Michael Ballam: The Healing Power of Music: BYU Education Week (1999)
***** Michael Ballam:Recognizing Inspiration in the Arts: BYU Education Week (2009)
***** Brave (Disney Pixar 2012)
***** Unstoppable
****^ Hitchcock
****^ The Drop Card (BYU)
****^ Johnny Lingo (LDS 1969)
****^ The Emmet Smith Story (BYU 1979)

****^ The Pistol: The Birth of a Legend (Pete Maravich)
***^ Pistol Pete Maravich: The LSU Years (perseverance practice)
****^ Cool Runnings (1993) Jamaican Bob Sled Team, a dream vs opposition
****^ Wild Hearts Can't be Broken, (1991) Diving Girl
**** The Phone Call (LDS 1977)
**** Faith in Every Footstep
***^ Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat (talks about having a dream)
***^ John Baker's Last Race (BYU)
*** Run Dick, Run Jane  (BYU 1972)
*** Blind Love (BYU 1979)

Musical summaries (based on the movies)

***** The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall (25 Year)
****^ Love Never Dies
***** Enchanted (Amy Adams)
****^ Les Miserables (2012)
****^ Rigoletto (Feature Films)
****^ Celtic Women: A Christmas Celebration
****^ Tangled (Disney)
**** Walk The Line (Johnny Cash and June Carter)
**** Oliver! (1968 Best Picture)
****  Saturday's Warrior
**** Star Child
**** Oklahoma (1955)
**** Man of La Mancha
**** Grease
**** Into the Woods
***^ Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat (Donny Osmond)
***^ Funny Face
***^ Pocahantas (Disney)
*** Huckleberry Finn
*** Sweeney Todd in Concert
*** Sunday in the Park with George (Mandy Patinkin)
*** Christmas Carol (Jim Carrey, Disney)
*** Aristocats (Disney)
**^ The Marvelous Land of Oz (You Tube)
**^ White Christmas (1954)
**^ Chicago
** A Little Night Music
*^ Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
* The Civil War
* Robin Hood (Disney)
^ Saturday Night Fever (R version)

Disney Movies: summary

***** Enchanted (2007) Amy Adams
***** Brave (2012)
****^ Oz The Great and Powerful (2013)
****^ Tangled 2010
****^ Treasure Island 1950
****^ Holes
**** Wreck-it Ralph
**** Toby Tyler 1960
****Toy Story III 2010
**** Old Yeller
**** The Journey of Natty Gann 1985
**** The Thanksgiving Promise
***^ Pocahontas 1995
***^ Return to Oz (1985)
***^ The Three Lives of Thomasina
*** Christmas Carol 2009 Jim Carey)
*** Aristocats (1970)
**^ Sorcerer's Apprentice 2010 (Nicolas Cage)
* Robin Hood

Mormon Movies: Summary (to mmboe)

Movies with a Mormon Connection
***** Krueger's Christmas
***** 17 Miracles
***** A Search for Truth
***** The Guilty (BYU 1978, Gordon Jump)
****^ Cipher in the Snow (BYU Films)
****^ Legacy
****^ Twilight Series
****^ Rigoletto
****^ The Drop Card (BYU 1980)
**** The Emmett Smith Story (BYU)
**** Napoleon Dynamite
**** Saturday's Warrior
**** Star Child
**** Faith in Every Footstep
**** The Thanksgiving Promise (based on the book "Chester, I Love You")
**** The Coat  (By Mormon Channel, You Tube)
***^ John Baker's Last Race (BYU 1976)
***^  One Man's Treasure
*** Run Dick, Run Jane (BYU 1972, documentary)
*** Sweetwater Rescue
*** Singles Ward
*** The Sweetwater Rescue
*** Road to Zion: British Isles
*** Blind Love (BYU 1979)
**^ The Trophy Case (BYU 1979)
**^ RM
** Return With Honor

Movie Summary: Christmas movies

***** It's a Wonderful Life (Jimmy Stewart)
***** Krueger's Christmas  (Jimmy Stewart) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tMuSVVljg8
**** A Christmas Memory (Truman Capote)
**** The Coat http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp3IH8ZNviQ
**** A Carlie Brown Christmas
***^ Christmas Angel
***^ Santa Claus I (Tim Allen)
***^ Christmas Story (Finnish movie)
*** Santa Clause III (Tim Allen)
*** Elf (Will Carrol)
*** It's Christmastime Again Charlie Brown
*** The Christmas Story (bb gun)
*** Rudolf The Red-nosed Reindeer
**^ Santa Clause II (Tim Allen)
**^ Dream Works Holiday Classics
** The Family Stone (Diane Keaton)
** Santa's Surprise
*8 The Night Before Christmas
**Jeff Dunham's Very Special Christmas Special
*^ Christmas Comes But Once a Year
*^ The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas
(no stars) A Christmas Too Many


**** A Chritmas Carol (1999) Patrick Stewart
**** A Christmas Carol: Scrooge (1951)  Alistair Sim
***^ A Christmas Carol (1984) George C Scott
***Christmas Carol (2009 animated) Disney Jim Carrey
** A Christmas Carol The Movie (2001 animated) Kate Winslett
** Scrooge (1970 musical) Albert Finney
*^ A Christmas Carol  (2008 animated)
*  Scrooged (1988) Bill Murray