Ok, you must keep in mind that I was a child before DVDs and VCRs. I know, most of my readers fall into the same category. Now, my family got a VCR when I was in about 8th grade, so we did have movies available to us to watch and watch again after that point. But by 8th grade, well, it sounds cynical maybe, but childhood was over. At least as far as "favorite film from childhood" goes.
Wow.
I have to think back to Disney films seen on Sunday nights, or, once we had cable, maybe caught here or there? And I'm kind of at a loss. Books are easy, and music, actually, and TV shows, even.
So I hate to do this, but I'm going to have to really show my true colors here and go back to Star Wars. My favorite film from childhood? Return of the Jedi.
I saw Jedi and Empire in the theater and, like I said earlier this month, Empire rocked my world. But Jedi came out when I was in 3rd or 4th grade and I was a little older and wiser. I loved that movie. I was still young enough that we--Patti, her brother Matt, my brother Ian, and I--re-enacted scenes in our backyard and basement. It was our setting of fantasy pretend play until I finally met someone else (Misdy) who had read Tolkien. Seriously.
Of course Patti refused to play any role that wasn't Princess Leia
and Ian, also of course, was going to be Han Solo, always,
leaving Matt and me to duke it out over Chewbacca and Luke. 
I always won that fight and he played the Wookie. Or C3PO. Whatever. I wanted the lightsabre and black clothes (Goth or Benedictine, it was going to be one or the other for me--gee, he even has a hood on in this picture).
I loved this movie. I still do--although as kids movies go, I'm glad my girls have Miyazaki and Pixar...
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