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Oliver & Company (1988)
My family likes it almost as much as I do
We actually saw this film on the big screen as a family. Our children enjoyed it - I think because I enjoyed it so much. (We own two copies of the VHS). I liked it a lot then and still like it - One of my top ten movies. That my wife and I have seen Billy Joel in Concert in Philly had a lot to do with it. Also, we lived on the East Coast for five years and could identify with the characters. The music is corny enough to be "cool." I read somewhere the quote attributed to Cheech Marin something to the effect that "now I can take my kids to one of my movies." Dom Delouise is a great character voice (and a fine actor, of course). The casting of Bette Midler as the show dog Poodle was a stroke of genius. The gang of canines each have their own lovable personality - contrasted to the "bad" Dobermans who do the bidding of the evil Sykes. Who can resist the story of an orphan being rescued by a rich kid whose world-traveling parents make her a defacto orphan. The "refined" butler shows his crude side and befriends the ruffian Fagin. It's a fun family movie - just over an hour. It can take a downer kind of day and brighten it beyond compare.