What are some of your favourite movies in which a child played a leading role?

The Goonies.

Home Alone.
The Sandlot.
ET.

The Good Son
The Sixth Sense

The Princess Bride (in a way).

Candleshoe
Leon
Stand By Me (actually, it’s one of my favorites, period)

I second Home Alone.

The Neverending Story

@Smashley Leon is an absolute kick arse movie & yes, she done good!

Empire of the Sun with Christian Bale
Whale Rider with Keisha Castle-Hughes
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane with Jodie Foster
Fly Away Home with Anna Paquin

The Goonies
The Omen (original 1 and 2)
The Golden Child
Flight of The Navigator.

The Exorcist.
The Ring.

Stand By Me and Labyrinth are two of my favorite movies. Ever.

Little Miss Sunshine Abigail Breslin
Hounddog Dakota Fanning
About a Boy Nicholas Hoult
Unstrung Heroes Nathan Watt

My real favorites were already mentioned.

Little Miss Sunshine – I second that!

Sixth Sense
Bugsy Malone

Catinca Untaru in The Fall
Elle Fanning in Phoebe in Wonderland
Jamie Bell in Billy Elliot
Leonardo DiCaprio in This Boy’s Life (not sure how old he was when it was filmed, though.)

I’m sure I am forgetting more.

From the “where are they now? files
Quinn Cummings stole The Goodbye Girl from Richard Dreyfuss and Marsha Mason

Heidi, The Littlelest Rebel and The Little Princess with Shirley Temple.

The Water Horse with Alex Etel.

Witness with Lukas Haas.

The Whale Rider with Keisha Castle-Hughes

Stand by Me with Will Wheaton and River Phoenix

Paper Moon with Tatum O’Neal

The Homecoming (the movie that preceded The Waltons TV show with Richard Thomas, Jon Walmsley, Judy Norton, Eric Scott, Mary McDonough, David Harper and Kami Cotler.

The Bad Seed with Patty McCormack .

The Sixth Sense, Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver.

The boy in The Striped Pajamas deserves a mention.

My Girl

Okay cheers for that, some impressive choices. My vote goes to Tatum O Neal in Paper Moon & Mark Lester in Oliver, as in Twist.

The Harry Potter series.

@YARNLADY Oh yes! I totally forgot about those for some reason!

@ratboy Yes! Good call.

AI Artificial Intelligence
Leon – The Professional
The Sixth Sense
The Road to Perdition
Testament
Witness

Terminator 2
Star Wars Episode 1
Bad Santa

Stand by Me
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Goonies
The Champ I had such a crush on Ricky Schroder when I was a kid
Lord of the Flies The 1990 version with Balthazar Getty!
Firestarter
ET

@MissAusten Oh yes, To Kill a Mockingbird! Mary Badham got Scout dead-on perfect.

Pan’s Labyrinth, City of Lost Children and Fido are definitely favorites.

I also second the Goonies, The Princess Bride and Harry Potter (well some of them).

Orphan. This movie kinda cancels that question out though…still. I choose you, Esther!