Please Pass The Popcorn: It’s Cinematherapy

Watching movies involving gifted children, along with reading books, enables movie watchers to identify with main characters creating understanding, self-acceptance, and healthy determination in gifted students (Moon, 2002).  See Hoagies' Gifted Education Page for an extensive listing of movies featuring gifted kids at www.hoagiesgifted.org/movies.htm.

Some movie choices for the elementary and middle school age range:         

             

•         Angus  PG-13 
•         Black  NR (intense)
•        Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs  PG
•        Cold Comfort Farm  PG
•        Contact  PG
•        Dead Poets Society  PG (contains suicide)
•        Empire of the Sun  PG-13
•        Explorers  PG
•        Finding Forrester  PG-13 (some violence & language) 
•        Finding Neverland  PG
•        Fly Away Home  PG
•        Gifted Hands  NR
•        Hard Problems: The Road to the World's Toughest Math Contest  PG
•        Harriet The Spy  PG
•        any Harry Potter movies  PG
•        Holes  PG
•        Hoot  PG
•        How to Train Your Dragon  PG
•        Infinity  PG
•        The Iron Giant  PG
•        Little Man Tate  PG
•        Matilda  PG
•        Meet the Robinsons  PG
•        The Mighty  PG
•        Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium  G
•        October Sky  PG (about a West Virginia boy)
•        Real Genius  PG
•        Searching for Bobby Fisher  PG
•        Sky High  PG
•        Spellbound  G
•        Stand and Deliver PG
•       Vitus  PG
•       Whalerider  PG-13
•       Willow  PG