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Little Nikita. (1988) Sidney Poitier, River Phoenix, Richard Bradford, Richard Lynch, Caroline Kava, Richard Jenkins. Directed by Richard Benjamin. Jeff Grant, a high school senior who wants to attend the Air Force Academy becomes involved in international intrigue when a routine background check by the FBI uncovers the fact that his parents have forged birth certificates. In fact his parents are Russian sleepers, inactive spies who have been placed in America by the KGB for call up during an emergency. Such an emergency has occurred, and the KGB uses the Grants as bait to track down a rogue agent who is killing their operatives in America.
Categories: Drama, Action/Adventure, Crime and Mystery.
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ChucksConnection Rating:  MPAA Rating: PG
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The Longshots. (2008) Ice Cube, Keke Palmer,Tasha Smith Jill Marie Jones, Dash Mihok, Matt Craven. Directed by Fred Durst. The true story of Jasmine Plummer who, at the age of eleven, became the first female to play in Pop Warner football tournament in its 56-year history.
Categories: Drama, Family, Sports.
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ChucksConnection Rating: 
MPAA Rating: PG
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Looking for Miracles. (1989) Greg Spotiswood, Zachary Bennett, Joe Flaherty, Patricia Gage, Paul Haddad. Directed by Kevin Sullivan. Set in the Depression of the 1930's, this film is the story of two brothers who learn to come to terms with each other when they both end up spending the summer together in a camp.
Categories: Drama, Family, Coming of Age.
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ChucksConnection Rating: 
MPAA Rating: NR, would be PG
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The Lords of Discipline. (1982) David Keith, Robert Prosky, G.D. Spradlin, Barbara Babcock, Michael Biehn. The year is 1964. Carolina Military Institute has admitted, for the first time, a young black man into its freshman class. Will McClean, a dispciplined cadet with integrity is asked to protect him from the Ten -- a secret society of cadets dedicated to eliminating those it deems "unfit" from the school.
Categories: Drama, Coming of Age.
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ChucksConnection Rating:
MPAA Rating: PG
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Loser. (2000) Jason Biggs, Mena Suvari, Greg Kinnear. Directed by Amy Heckerling. Paul, a naive but good natured student from North Dakota gets a crash course in New York City life. To keep his scholarship, he must study hard. That makes him a loser to his partying roommates, who connive to have him kicked out of their suite and assigned to a room in an animal hospital. In class he meets Dora, who's the very young lover of their sarcastic and selfish English literature professor. When Dora is slipped some drugs at a party, Paul nurses her back to health, and a friendship follows. For Paul, though, it's more than friendly feelings. But will Dora reciprocate?
Categories: Comedy, Romance, Coming of Age.
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ChucksConnection Rating:
MPAA Rating: PG
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Losin' It. (1982) Tom Cruise, Jackie Earle Haley, Shelley Long, John Stockwell, John P. Navin, Jr., Henry Darrow. Directed by Curtis Hanson. Four high school boys going to school in southern California plan an overnight adventure in the brothels of Tijuana. An otherwise routine coming of age comedy is notable for early performances by Tom Cruise, Shelley Long, and John Stockwell.
Categories: Comedy, Teenagers, Sexually Explicit.
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ChucksConnection Rating:
MPAA Rating: R
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Love and Basketball. (2000) Sanaa Lathan, Omar Epps, Alfre Woodard, Bennis Haysbert. Written and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood. From the playground to the pro leagues, Monica and Quincy taught each other how to play the game. Now their commitment to the sport will force them to make a choice between each other and the game...between family and team...between Love and Basketball.
Categories: Drama, Sports.
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ChucksConnection Rating:
MPAA Rating: PG
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Lucky. (2002) Michael Emanuel, Piper Cochrane, David Reivers, Jillian Bach. Directed by Steve Cuden. Failing cartoon writer Millard Mudd is falling into an alcohol-induced life of failure and isolation, until a stray dog he hits changes his life for good and bad. It seems that the dog can "talk" and get inside Millard's head.
Categories: Comedy, Horror, Sexually Explicit.
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ChucksConnection Rating:
MPAA Rating: R
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