24 'Family-Friendly' Movies & Shows That Our Readers Find Upsetting

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24 'Family-Friendly' Movies & Shows That Our Readers Find Upsetting

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Hollywood loves to crank out family-friendly fare, and you'd think they'd be super careful about keeping their content appropriate for all ages. But strangely, sometimes they wind up creating movies and shows that are deeply troubling anyway.

Following are movies and shows that our readers found profoundly upsetting. Feel free to speculate on whether Hollywood's being deliberate or just oblivious.

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CRACKED Arthur I've never had a best friend SO watching Arthur and Buster depresses me. It's like I'm seeing the childhood I never had.
HEY ARNOLD! Helga Pataki is often neglected by her parents, who seem to care more about her older sister, Olga. Being the older brother in my family,
24 'Family-Friendly' Movies & Shows That Our Readers Find Upsetting
CRACKED.COM Beauty and Beast the Between being a person who hates mob mentality and scapegoating, and American politics being what they are right now,
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory I identified with the awkward and lonely Willy Wonka and felt sad each time someone was expelled from his factory. H
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Disney 101 Dalmatians After rescuing many baby animals some of which died as I held them in my hands I can't watch the scene where it looks like one o
PETERPAN The way Mr. Darling abuses Nana is beyond what I can stand in a kids' movie. After screaming at her for his own clumsiness, he ties her up ou
24 'Family-Friendly' Movies & Shows That Our Readers Find Upsetting
24 'Family-Friendly' Movies & Shows That Our Readers Find Upsetting
24 'Family-Friendly' Movies & Shows That Our Readers Find Upsetting
RUGrats Seeing Chuckie Finster worry about every little thing is very upsetting. I'm reminded of my own painfully anxious childhood, and how I still f
In 1988's bug, after his transformation, Josh (Tom Hanks) goes to his mother for help when he doesn't know what to do. She is so frightened by the gro
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24 'Family-Friendly' Movies & Shows That Our Readers Find Upsetting
24 'Family-Friendly' Movies & Shows That Our Readers Find Upsetting
24 'Family-Friendly' Movies & Shows That Our Readers Find Upsetting
24 'Family-Friendly' Movies & Shows That Our Readers Find Upsetting
I cannot watch CRACKED CO JUMANUJI because the set up is too sad to enjoy. The fact that Alan Parish loses twenty-six years of his life (including par
No amount of chocolate could settle my nerves after seeing Willy Wonka suddenly go nuclear on a child and then switch back to an eccentric candy maker
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