Does Touchstone ever make Family Movies?

[mickeymania1]

I always remembered that back in the 80s Touchstone Pictures made films more suitable for a family audience (Ernest goes to Camp, Big Business) & nowadays it seems that they are making more gritty & profanic movies liek Wild Hogs & Bringing Down the House. Don't get me wrong though, I love those movies but does anyone know what I'm talking about when I saw Touchstone used to make more family friendly films?

[ShrunkenNed]

I remember those films, yes. But with Disney making movies like POTC: Curse Of the Neverending movie franchise, with PG-13 ratings, the need for a studio to make family friendly PG movies has ended. That's why Movies like The Pacifier, Miracle, The Rookie, and others now carry the Disney moniker whereas before they would've carried the Touchstone label.

[Chris]

"Splash" was Touchstone's first film (and featured nudity and profanity). Later in 1986, "Down and Out in Beverly Hills" (the first R-rated film from Touchstone) was followed up with "Ruthless People". None of these films I would really consider family fare.

Touchstone was created over concerns with the more mature films Disney started making in the 80's, including Condorman, Trenchcoat, Never Cry Wolf, the Black Hole.

I'm not sure where you get the "Family Friendly" films since they have (and always have been) a very small portion of the films produced by Touchstone and Hollywood Pictures.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchstone_Pictures

[Executioner]

LOL Chris you busted out Condorman! I love it. I was waiting to see when that movie would ever be mentioned on this site. LOL What a quasi-bond/batman-esque flick, but I loved it. And yeah if you haven't seen the Black Hole.... Woah man. That was a dark film for Disney to have made. But good.