Amityville The Awakening (2017)

A new family, one headed by a lethargic Jennifer Jason Leigh as mom, moves into the Amityville Horror house and over the course of a perfunctory 87-minutes, the son, brain-dead, bedridden, unresponsive and hooked up to machines in the front room, starts to show signs of improved condition, leading his twin sister Belle to suspect dark forces are at play and luckily her new school friends have seen and read all the books and movies in the series and so can catch her up on the based-on-a-true-family-massacre paranormal story. 

★★☆☆☆

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Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014)

On the very busy day of his older brother's prom, his sister's school theatre performance of Peter Pan, and his twelfth birthday, Alexander experiences an especially bad but very funny day, in this good-natured Disney family comedy based on Judith Viorst's book.

★★★☆☆

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