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Article: Child's play, too. (Children's films)
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- Reason
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- January 1, 1994
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In the '90s, Hollywood won't make movies for the whole family but will do more children's films.
1993 WILL BE REMEMBERED as the year that dinosaurs ruled the cinema box office. Steven Spielberg's raptors have generated more than $700 million in global ticket sales, and Jurassic Park seems well on its way to becoming the first movie to gross $1 billion.
Meanwhile, dinosaurs of another type--aging leading men--did their part to give Hollywood what is expected to be its biggest year ever at the box office. Robert Redford proved with Indecent Proposal that he can still excite women, provided he wears a tuxedo throughout the film. Clint Eastwood and Harrison Ford ...