"Director: Caroline Thompson"

• Black Beauty | DVD | (21/08/2000) from £4.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (180.36%)   |  RRP £13.99

  When a girl is given the horse of her dreams the pair form a bond of love and trust that will last forever. Polly and her Black Beauty share wondrous adventures and face hardship and danger with brother Bertie Merry Legs the pony and the other residents of their lush country estate. All of the splendor and excitement of Anna Sewell's classic novel are thrilling to boys and girls.

• Secret Garden, The / Black Beauty | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.49   |  Saving you £4.50 (69.34%)   |  RRP £10.99

  It's a special garden where friendships blossom illnesses fade away and sorrows flee. There troubled orphan Mary (Kate Maberly) her spoiled sickly cousin Colin (Heydon Prowse) and kindly country boy Dickon (Andrew Knott) discover that a world of caring can make a world of difference. Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic story blooms anew in this enchanting new version lovingly adapted by Caroline Thompson and directed by Agnieszka Holland also starring Maggie Smith and John Lynch.

• Black Beauty | Blu Ray | (23/06/2014) from £8.69   |  Saving you £9.30 (107.02%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Don't waste this one on your children: buy it for yourself. A spectacular adaptation of the Anna Sewell novel, this is faithful to the source material but creates a life of its own on the screen. Told from the point of view of the horse, it recalls a time and a place that could be both beautiful and cruel. Black Beauty faced both hardship and kindness as he passed through the hands of many owners throughout his life. Some are generous, but the agonies endured by the title character may be too harsh for small children. Unfortunately, director Caroline Thompson did not resurrect her magical touch a few years later with another animal tale, Buddy. --Rochelle O'Gorman, Amazon.com

• Snow White | DVD | (05/03/2012) from £10.28   |  Saving you £-0.29 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Snow White as youve never seen it before, in this exciting version of the much loved fairy tale Snow White is in danger from her evil stepmother

• Buddy | DVD | (04/07/2005) from £4.94   |  Saving you £1.05 (21.26%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A delightful family adventure based on a remarkable true story featuring amazing effects courtesy of Jim Henson's Creature Shop. Rene Russo stars as eccentric socialite Gertrude ""Trudy"" Lintz who adopts a baby gorilla into her already-bustling animal menagerie. Along with chimpanzees Maggie and Joe Buddy gets into all kinds of hilarious monkey business and proceeds to drive everyone bananas. .

• Buddy | DVD | (11/03/2002) from £11.38   |  Saving you £-2.40 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Based on the life of Gertrude Lintz, a Long Island socialite who kept an amazing menagerie of animals on her estate, this very able film by Caroline Thompson (Black Beauty) concentrates on Lintz's relationship with a gorilla named Buddy, whom she raised from infancy on. The film is geared toward kids but in the very best sense as Thompson orchestrates some very entertaining sequences without cutting corners on logic, the way most forms of children's entertainment do today. Rene Russo is very good as the eccentric woman, and Robbie Coltrane is uncharacteristically warm and fuzzy as her patient husband. Nice support work from Alan Cumming and the rest of the cast. Thompson is aiming for something akin to the live-action glory days of Disney, and she comes close to achieving it. --Tom Keogh

• Evan Almighty/Buddy/Magic In The Water | DVD | (25/02/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Evan Almighty: Steve Carell (The 40-Year-Old Virgin) reprising his role as the polished preening newscaster Evan Baxter of Bruce Almighty is the next one anointed by God to accomplish a holy mission in the hilarious new comedy Evan Almighty. Blockbuster comedy director Tom Shadyac (The Nutty Professor Liar Liar Bruce Almighty) returns behind the camera for this next episode of divine intervention. This time however his cast grows two-by-two. Newly elected to Congress Evan leaves Buffalo behind and shepherds his family to suburban northern Virginia. Once there his life gets turned upside-down when God (Morgan Freeman) appears and mysteriously commands him to build an ark. But his befuddled family just can't decide whether Evan is having an extraordinary mid-life crisis or is truly onto something of Biblical proportions... Buddy: A delightful family adventure based on a remarkable true story featuring amazing effects courtesy of Jim Henson's Creature Shop. Rene Russo stars as eccentric socialite Gertrude ""Trudy"" Lintz who adopts a baby gorilla into her already-bustling animal menagerie. Along with chimpanzees Maggie and Joe Buddy gets into all kinds of hilarious monkey business and proceeds to drive everyone bananas. Magic In The Water: Radio psychologist Jack Black (Mark Harmon) takes his children Joshua (Joshua Jackson) and Ashley (Sarah Wayne) on a ""vacation"" to a lake in British Columbia. While he grinds away at work the children discover that the famous local lake monster ""Orky"" may not be just a gimmick to attract tourists after all. In fact Orky may enable them to get closer to their workaholic dad and help keep local polluters from dumping toxic waste into Orky's home.

• Snow White | DVD | (18/11/2002) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Deception never looked so sweet... There is perhaps no more beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tale than the legend of a beautiful young girl fleeing her home because of a jealous stepmother. Now more breath-taking than any previous interpretation 'Snow White' is a fantasy of truly epic scope. Wonderfully acted and cleverly scripted this modern retelling introduces such classic elements as Snow White's miraculous birth and the mysterious reason why her father remarries after his wife'