8 Best Family Movies to Watch While Eating Ice Cream in the White Mountains
There’s something magical about a movie night with your favorite people and a scoop of delicious ice cream. Whether you're in Pinetop, Show Low, or anywhere in Arizona’s White Mountains, this list of family-friendly films pairs perfectly with your favorite flavors from Sweet Slade’s.
#1. Home Alone: Junk and Rubbish Sundae
After Kevin “makes his family disappear,” he decides to make himself a giant sundae. He uses chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry ice cream and then tops it with a ton of Hershey’s chocolate sauce, maraschino cherries, whipped cream, and jumbo marshmallows.
#2: The Princess Diaries: Mia’s Ice Cream Headache
In this classic scene, Mia (Anne Hathaway), faces her bully, Lana, by smashing a chocolate vanilla ice cream cone into Lana’s cheer outfit.
In another scene, Mia is at her first state dinner and takes a large bite of a palate cleanser. Little does she know, it's a very frozen mint sorbet, and it gives her a giant ice cream headache!
#3. Jurassic Park: Melting Ice Cream
As the power fails and the dinos run wild, Hammond comforts himself with tubs of melting ice cream. In this scene, Ellie walks in on Hammond eating ice cream in a “desserted” (see what I did there?) dining room.
He says, “They were all melting,” while eating several buckets of ice cream.
It's a relatable moment—so grab your own Sweet Slade’s pint and let it melt a little.
#4. Smurfs: Blue Ice Cream
In a classic Smurf episode, "The Smurf-Walk Cafe", the smurfs accidentally create ice cream, which they call “smurf cream.” Although we don't have the Smurf’s recipe, we have our Blue Moon ice cream that is just as mysterious as the Smurfs themselves!
#5. It's a Wonderful Life: Coconut Chocolate Sundae
This iconic Frank Capra movie is a holiday staple in most homes during Christmas time. A humorous scene from the film shows young George Bailey working at a scoop shop, and young Mary Hatch ordering some chocolate ice cream. After Mary says she doesn't like coconut, George says, “Say, brainless, don't you know where coconuts come from?” and then puts coconut on her ice cream anyway.
#6. Lilo and Stitch: Mint Sundae
Remember the scene where Lilo is taking pictures of people at the beach, and causing a man to drop his mint ice cream cone?
#7. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: Neapolitan Ice Cream
In this fun family comedy, an inventor creates a device that makes it rain food! In one of the scenes, ice cream falls from the sky like snow, and all the kids in the town rush to make snowmen and throw snowballs.
#8. Roman Holiday: Princess Ann’s Gelato
In this classic movie, Princess Ann (Audrey Hepburn) has an ice cream cone after running away from school.
Whether you’re cuddling up at home or visiting the White Mountains for some family fun, make movie night even sweeter with a stop at Sweet Slade’s. Our handmade ice cream is perfect for every scene!
Visit us in Pinetop and bring the magic of the movies to life—with ice cream in hand.