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A very small mouse of unknown origins runs away from school in the Royal Mews of Buckingham Palace shortly before the celebration of Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee, celebrating her sixty years on the British throne. The mouse becomes involved in a series of adventures while trying to find his own identity.
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A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future. The story of Ebenezer Scrooge opens on a Christmas Eve as cold as Scrooge's own heart. That night, he receives three ghostly visitors: the terrifying spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come. Each takes him on a heart-stopping journey, yielding glimpses of Tiny Tim and Bob Cratchit, the horrifying spectres of Want and Ignorance,...
3) Mary Poppins
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A wind brings some English children a new nanny who slides up the bannister, introduces the two oldest to her friends, and takes them on many adventures.
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An eleven-year-old half-Japanese and half-Italian girl named Amber worries about making friends at her new school, and misses her dad who left when she was little. So Amber creates an imaginary father who's a secret agent and writes letters from him to her younger sister, Bella. Things quickly spiral, and Amber's good intentions get her in trouble.