Parents' Guide to

Snow Day

By Nell Minow, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 5+

Good family fun for a snow day.

Movie PG 2000 89 minutes
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age 9+

Based on 8 parent reviews

age 8+

great family movie

its really good

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Great role models
age 8+

a fine feel good movie.

and its fun to watch and its cute to.

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Great messages

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This engaging kid-eye view of "the real winter miracle" is good family fun. It has something for both littler and bigger kids and is very endurable for parents. The theme of SNOW DAY is that "anything can happen on a snow day," and it does a good job of evoking the magic of waking up to find the world soft, white, and new, and all normal rules and obligations suspended.

One nice thing about the movie is that it shows us a believably harried but genuinely kind and loving family. Nat and Hal have a real sense of commitment and teamwork and the mother may be caught up in her big project, but it is clear that she loves her family very much. And it is very nice to see Chevy Chase in a more low-key and genuine role. Another nice thing is that it shows us that sometimes what we think we want isn't what we want after all, and that something better might be right in front of us.

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