Movie Night
We have movie nights with other children, and after reviewing this and having my 2nd and 4th grade daughters watch it, it was given a thumbs up by all. Good, entertaining, old-fashioned movie.

the trouble with angels
this movie is great and funny recommend getting also where angels go trouble follows

No Trouble with these Angels
I had fond memories of this movie when I was a child so I bought it to share with my kids. They loved it - they are 12, 5, and 3 - the three year old obviously didn't follow the plot but the music and hilarity kept him interested. Great movie for the whole family!

The Trouble With Angels
Whether or not you have experienced Catholic School, this movie will entertain and delight. Another fun classic.

Works on many levels
This is a movie that is so long-lived because it works on many levels. For comparison, consider Sound of Music. One view, it's overly saccharine. In another view, it's scenery, it's music, it's period, it's drama, it's comedy, it's character development, etc. So too with Trouble with Angels. (A) It's a caper movie, a series of amusing slapstick episodes. (B) It's a buddy movie, the two main girls. (C) It's a character development movie: Haley Mills character undergoes enormous development during the movie. (D) It's an unwinding mystery. We know Haley Mills is a nervy contrary brat from the beginning. But only 3/4 through the film do we discover the story of her playboy father who won't or can't live with her, farming her off to the school. Now, a simple movie would have told us this in the first 2 minutes. A really clever movie defers this key fact til the last act, when "it all fits in place". (E) It's a movie about the 1:1 relationship between mother superior and Haley Mills. They clearly identify with each other. When about to dismiss the girls for the fire prank, Mother says: "Rachel is just a follower, not a leader." What she doesn't say, then, Haley Mills IS a leader - and SO is the mother superior. So they have that in common. They're both leaders. It's right between the spoken lines, wonderful. (F) It's a movie about a domineering parent figure, Mother Superior. Everyone identifies with that, perhaps not your own parent, but some dominating teacher or coach of your childhood. (G) It's a period piece and "exotic location" piece, set in an at least moderately exotic locale - a catholic girl's school, pretty far from most people's daily life and even more so today. So just watching daily life in that environment is interesting. ------- Now, you can watch and love the movie without thinking about any of this. But the fact that so many different levels are going on, is part of the long term magnetism of the movie. It should live on for each new generation.