When: July 1st Why: Steven Spielberg
returns both to family fare and summer spectacle with this adaptation of the beloved Roald Dahl book.
Yakin's
return to family fare and the director's chair does little to restore our faith in his career.
Not exact matches
He would
return to the era in later films, most notably his hugely successful drama Twenty - Four Eyes (1954), but immediately after Morning for the Osone
Family, he dived into escapist
fare that better showed off his range, from the poetic romance The Girl I Loved (1946)
to the noirish thriller Woman (1948)
to the comedy Here's
to the Young Lady (1949)
to the ghost story Yotsuya kaidan (1949).
The frame coincided with the end of half - term, fuelling strong results for
family fare Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (
returning to the top spot thanks
to a modest 26 % drop), The Book of Life (up 8 %) and Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (down 9 %), although the latter title is not one of the six # 1m weekend movies.
Make the most of sunday and head over
to magnetic island with this great
family fare of only $ 66 per
family return.
In their study of outcomes for children in the U.S., Berger, Hill, and Waldfogel compared children whose mothers were still at home at twelve weeks after childbirth (the maximum leave permitted under the U.S.
Family and Medical Leave Act) with those whose mothers
returned to work earlier.8 - 9 They found that children whose mothers
returned to work in less than twelve weeks
fared worse on a number of health and development outcomes.