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Jack. (2003) Anton Yelchin, Stockard Channing, Ron Silver, Giacomo Baessato, Brent Spiner, Andrew Airlie, Brittney Irvin, Ryan Drescher. Directed by Lee Rose. Jack, a teenager just reaching puberty, finds that his life is turned upside down at school and at home after his parents split up because his father has finally admitted that he is gay and is now living with another man. Luckily for Jack his friend Maggie has a similar problem, which helps him eventually deal with the social backlash and come to understand what is important in the world around him. Categories: Drama, Coming of Age.

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Jackass: The Movie. (2002) Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Chris Pontius, Steve-O, Dave England, Ryan Dunn.. Written and directed by Jeff Tremaine. Johnny Knoxville and his team of maniacs bring their stunts to the big screen with material not permitted on TV. Category: Comedy.

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Jackass Number Two. (2006) Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Chris Pontius, Steve-O, Dave England, Ryan Dunn.. Written and directed by Jeff Tremaine. Johnny Knoxville and his team wreak havoc and lower the bar even farther (than in the first Jackass) with dangerous stunts and dirty jokes.. Category: Comedy.

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Jeepers Creepers. (2001) Justin Long, Gina Philips, Eileen Brennan, Patricia Belcher, Jonathan Breck, Brandon Smith. Written and directed by Victor Salva. Two teens returning home from college are nearly run off the road by a maniac in a beat-up truck and later spot him shoving what appears to be a body down a sewer pipe. When they stop to investigate, they discover that the grisly reality at the bottom of that pipe is far worse than what they suspected, and that they are now the targets of an evil force more unspeakable and unstoppable than they could have ever imagined. Category: Horror.

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Joe the King. (1999) Noah Fleiss, Karen Young, Caryn Mannheim, Max Ligosh, Austin Pendleton, John Leguizamo, Ethan Hawke, Val Kilmer. Directed by Frank Whaley. A dark coming of age story about the struggles of Joe Henry, a 14 year old working class kid growing up in a working class New York town in the 1970s. His dysfunctional family life is so miserable that he retreats into an isolated world of lies and petty crimes. Categories: Drama, Coming of Age.

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Joe's Apartment. (1999) Jerry O'Connell, Megan Ward, Robert Vaughn. Directed by John Payson. This paean to "sex, bugs, and rock 'n' roll" is based on an MTV short about a colony of wise-cracking, singing cockroaches who live in a run down apartment in New York City. When Joe, a naive young single guy from Iowa trying to make his way in New York City rents the apartment, his sloppy life style fits right in and soon the cockroaches try to help him out by meddling in his life. Categories: Comedy, Romance, Musical.

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John John In the Sky. (2001) Matt Letscher, Christian Craft, Rusty Schwimmer, Randy Travis, Romy Rosemont, Aunjanue Ellis, Gemini Bartlett. Written and directed by Jefferson Davis. Set in the deep south in the late sixties, this coming of age story is a flashback on the critical development years of a boy with an intense interest in aviation. The boy must cope with the inevitable breakup of his mismatched parents, and a mentally retarded young girl who wants to share his friendship and interest in aviation. Categories: Drama, Coming of Age, Family.

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Journey. (1996) Jason Robards, Brenda Fricker, Meg Tilly, Max Pomeranc, Eliza Dushku. Directed by Tom McLaughlin. Jason Robards and Max Pomeranc (who plays Journey) are outstanding in this story of a restless mom who deserts her children and leaves them to be raised by their grandparents on the family farm. Through his love of photography, the grandfather helps Journey recover from the confusion and emptiness that he is experiencing, and discover the true meaning of what a family is. Categories: Drama, Coming of Age, Family.

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Journey to Spirit Island. (1992) Bettina, Brandon Douglas, Gabriel Damon, Tarek McCarthy, Tony Acierto, Nick Ramus. Directed by Laszlo Pal. Two young members of the Mahkah Indian tribe in the Pacific Northwest and two white friends from the city become involved in an adventure when they try to prevent an unscrupulous tribal member from taking possession of Spirit Island, the sacred burial ground of the tribe, and turning it over to a land developer. Categories: Adventure, Family.

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Just a Dream. (2002) Jeremy Sumpter, Carl Lumbly, Robby Benson, Ally Sheedy, Rodney A. Grant, Amy Madigan, Julie-Anne Liechty. Directed by Danny Glover. Henry Sturbuck, a shy twelve year old with estranged parents, gets a summer job in a small Nevada town tavern and soon becomes involved in the dreams and foibles of the people he meets at the tavern. Categories: Drama, Coming of Age.

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Just for Kicks. (2003) Cole Sprouse, Dylan Sprouse, Tom Arnold, Bill Dawes, Lori Sebourn-Carhart, Jenna Gering, Wesley Singerman, Cobi Jones. Directed by Syndey J. Bartholomew, Jr. Two twins on a not very good soccer team learn to become winners when an experienced professional soccer player on the run from the mob agrees to be their coach. Categories: Comedy, Family, Sports.

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Just Looking. (1999) Ryan Merriman, Joey Franquinha, Peter Onorati, Gretchen Mol, Amy Braverman. Directed by Jason Alexander. In the summer of 1955, a 14 year old kid from the Bronx sets himself one goal: to see two adults making love. When his mother sends him to stay with his pregnant aunt and uncle in Queens, he thinks his plan is doomed, until he meets his gorgeous adult neighbor Hedy and hooks up with some like-minded kids in the neighborhood. Categories: Drama, Coming of Age.

ChucksConnection Rating: MPAA Rating: R
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Just One of the Guys. (1985) Joyce Hyser, Clayton Rohner, Billy Jacoby, Toni Hudson, William Zabka, Leigh McCloskey. Directed by Lisa Gottlied. When a high school girl is passed over for editor of the school paper by a less qualified boy, she decides to impersonate a boy to prove that she was discriminated against. Life becomes complicated when she falls in love with a boy who just thinks she is "just one of the guys". Categories: Comedy, Romance, Teenagers.

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Just the Ticket. (1998) Andy Garcia, Andie MacDowell, Richard Bradford, Elizabeth Ashley, Laura Harris. Directed by Richard Wenk. Andy Garcia plays a New York con man who makes his living by hustling tickets. He has an on-again off-again relationship with a promising young chef trying to get her career started. Categories: Comedy, Romance.

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Kenny & Company. (1976) Dan McCann,A. Michael Baldwin, Jeff Roth, Ralph Richmond, Reggie Bannister, Clay Foster. Written and directed by Don Coscarelli. Several days in the life of 12-year-old Kenny and his friends, living in southern California in the mid-1970s as they deal with growing up and learning the facts of life in their world of best friends, skateboarding, neightborhood bullies, and Halloween pranks. Categories: Drama, Coming of Age, Family.

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Kickboxing Academy. (1997) Chyler Leigh, Christopher Lee, David Everett, Daphne Duplaix, Steven Bauer. Donna Barnes, Todd Ross. Directed by Richard Gabai. Film about the students and instructors of two rival kickboxing academies. When one of the instructors tries to take over the other academy, through the deceitful actions of outsiders, the academies end up facing off in a "winner take all" competition. Categories: Action/Adventure, Comedy.

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The Kid. (2000) Bruce Willis, Spencer Breslin, Lily Tomlin. Directed by Jon Turteltaub. Russ Duritz, a successful high-powered image consultant, has spent all of his incredibly empty life forgetting the ungainly and insecure child that he used to be -- until he meets him face-to-face. Thinking that the kid is a hallucination, Russ does everything he can to make him go away. But the kid won't go away until he gets some answers... Categories: Comedy, Family.

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Kids. (1995) Leo Fitzpatrick, Justin Pierce, Chloe Sevigny, Saian Bhagat, Billy Valdes, Billy Waldeman. Written and directed by Larry Clark. A few days in the lives of amoral inner-city teenagers, only interested in their own hedonistic pleasures of drugs, sex, and partying to fill the void of their otherwise empty and meaningless lives. Categories: Drama.

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Killer Bud. (2001) Corin Nemec, David Faustino, Danielle Harris, Caroline Keenan. Directed by Karl T. Hirsch. Two losers embark on a crazy misadventure to impress their reluctant dates, two young ladies they used to know in high school who picked them up just to score some marijuana. Categories: Comedy.

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The Knickerbocker Kids. (see Snoopers)


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