Bailey Summer Movie Festival

We Baileys love books, but we also love watching movies. This summer, we thought we'd have fun with a weekly summer movie. Each week we'll choose a guilty movie treat - funny family films to watch with our 12-year old son that are just pure enjoyment. A few are consistent favorites, but we'd also like to include some new ones. It helps if they have a summer theme, but that's not required. What is required is that they be ridiculously entertaining.

Here's a list of movies under consideration so far. Feel free to steal a few for your own summer movie festival, but then share some of your ideas in the comments - we'd love to hear them!

What About Bob? the consummate, absolutely hilarious, summer movie
Cats and Dogs
Kicking and Screaming
Cheaper by the Dozen 2
Funny Farm
School of Rock
Back to the Future
Karate Kid
Holes
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

We usually go for comedies, but we may slip in a summer blockbuster like Transformers or Independence Day. What are we missing?

Comments

[Keegan Jones]

Here are some movies you should check out:

Dan in Real Life
The Sandlot
The Truman Show
That Thing You Do

[Brian Bailey]

Nice choices! We just saw "Dan in Real Life" and really liked it. "Sandlot" was good and "The Truman Show" is definitely one of our favorites. Still haven't seen "That Thing You Do" though, so that definitely gets added to the list.

Thanks!

[Dani]

I had already planned to watch "What About Bob" tonight! It's still funny after watching it so many times! haha! Thanks for the list.

[Chris E.]

My two cents would be "Men in Black," "The Sandlot," and "The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe."

[Brian Bailey]

Nice additions, Chris. I was just starting to consider Men in Black...thanks!

[Kevin]

I just introduced my kids to The Goonies last night. They loved it!

[Brian Bailey]

We enjoyed that too - love a good 80's flick!