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The Chuck Taylor in Films: M
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Recent and classic films where chucks have a role. . . . |
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To qualify for a listing, one or more of the lead or main supporting characters in the film is seen wearing chucks -- Converse "Chuck Taylor" All Stars. |
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Films on this page: Ma vie en rose, Madison, Magic Kid, The Magic of Marciano, Making the Grade, The Maldonado Miracle, Mallrats, Man in the Chair, Matinee, Max is Missing, McBain, Meatballs Part II, Men
Don't Leave, The Messengers, The Midas Touch, Midnight Madness, The Million Dollar Kid, Mind Games, Miracle Dogs Too, Miracle
in Lane 2, Mischief, Mr.
Holland's Opus, Mr. Nanny, The
Money Pit, Monkey Trouble, Monster High, Monster Night, Motorama, The Mudge Boy, Munchie, My
Bodyguard, My Girl, My
Girl 2, My Magic Dog, My
Science Project, My Soul To Take, Mystery Date, Mystery
Kids, Mystery Men, Mystery Monsters, Mystery Science Theater 3000. The Mystical Adventures of Billy Owens.
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Ma vie en rose. (1997) Georges Du Fresne, Michele Laroque, Jean-Phillippe Ecoffey, Helene Vincent, Daniel Hanssens, Laurence Bibot. Written and directed by Alain Berliner. Ludovic is a young boy in a large family who likes to cross-dress, thinks that a miracle will allow him to become a girl, and talks of marrying his neighbor's son. All of this is upsetting and causes intense reactions in his bourgeoise neighborhood and within his family.
Category: Drama, Sexually Explicit.
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ChucksConnection Rating: 
MPAA Rating: R
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Madison. (2001) Jim Caviezel, Jake Lloyd, Mary McCormick, Bruce Dern, Paul Dooley, Brfent Briscoe. Written and directed by William Bindley. Jim McCormick and his son Mike are determined to race the pride of Madison, Indiana, a dilapidated hydroplane racing boat, but are beset by all kinds of problems.
Category: Drama, Family.
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ChucksConnection Rating:
MPAA Rating: PG
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Magic Kid. (1994) Stephen Furst, Shonda Whipple, Ted Jan Roberts, Joseph Campanella. Written and directed by Joseph Merhi. A young karate black belt and his sister go to California to visit their Uncle Bob, who they discover is a second rate movie agent in debt to the mob. The two help him escape from the enforcers sent by the mob boss to collect on Uncle Bob's debts.
Categories: Comedy, Action/Adventure.
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MPAA Rating: PG
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The Magic of Marciano. (2004) Cody Morgan, Natassja Kinski, Robert Forster, Jason Cairnes, Will Cochran, Eugene Clark, Jennifer Overton. Written and directed by Tony Barbieri. Unable to focus at school and desperate to escape the fighting between his mentally ill mother and her abusive boy friend, 9-year-old James wanders the docks of his quiet coastal town until he befriends Henry, a middle-aged retired psychiatrist who's building a boat to sail around the world. Although James' fantasy is for Henry and his mother to form a relationship, it isn't meant to be as his mother's condition worsens and he is placed into foster care.
Category: Drama.
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MPAA Rating: PG-13
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Making the Grade. (1984) Judd
Nelson, Jonna Lee, Carey Scott, Dana Olsen, Andrew Dice Clay,
Scott McGuiness, Gordon Jump, Walter Olkewicz, Ronald Lacey. Directed
by Dorian Walker. A wealthy, spoiled teenager pays an impersonator
from a poor family to stand in for him at his exclusive prep school.
Categories: Comedy, Romance, Teenagers.
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MPAA Rating: R
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The Maldonado Miracle. (2003) Peter Fonda, Mare Winningham, Ruben Blades, Eddy Martin, Bill Sage, Dan Merket, Soledad St. Hilaire, Scott Michael Campbell. Directed by Salma Hyeck. A small, dying border town is revitalized when a statue of Jesus in the town chuch seems to be shedding real blood. But was it a miracle or due to the presence of a wounded illegal Mexican boy who hid in the church?
Categories: Drama, Family.
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MPAA Rating: PG
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Mallrats. (1995) Shannen Doherty,
Jeremy London, Jason Lee, Claire Forlani, Ben Affleck, Joey Lauren
Adams, Renée Humphrey, Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith.
Directed by Kevin Smith. Two teens who have lost their girl friends
retreat to the mall to brood and then decide to try to win them
back with the assistance of two delinquent friends.
Categories:
Comedy, Romance, Teenagers.
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MPAA Rating: R
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Man in the Chair. (2007) Christopher Plummer, Michael Angarano, Joshua Boyd, M. Emmett Walsh, Robert Wagner, Taber Schroeder, Mitch Pileggi, Mimi Kennedy, Ellen Geer, George Murdock, Allan Rich. Written and directed by Michael Schroeder. Cameron Kincaid, a high school student from the wrong side of the tracks who has a dream of becoming a film director, forms an unlikely friendship with Flash Madden, a bitter old gaffer living in a film industry retirement home. Kincaid persuades Madden and his other retired industry colleagues to help him make a student film, learning much about life in the process.
Categories: Comedy, Drama, Coming of Age.
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MPAA Rating: PG-13
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Matinee. (1993) John Goodman, Cathy Moriarty, Simon Fenton, Omri Katz, Lisa Jakub,
Kellie Martin, Jesse Lee. Directed by Joe Dante. This tribute
to grade B horror flicks stars Goodman as a fly-by-night producer
promoting his newest film "Mant" (half man, half ant)
in Key West, Florida during the same week as the Cuban missile
crisis.
Categories: Comedy, Romance, Family.
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MPAA Rating: PG
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Max is Missing. (1995) Toran Caudell, Victor Rojas, Charles Napier, Matthew Sullivan, Alexandra Hedison. Directed by Mark Griffiths. Twelve-year-old Max isn't happy about being stuck on an expedition to the Incan ruins with his divorced dad and new girl firend. But when a dying man gives Max a priceless artifact to hide from two vaccaros, his trip turns into an adventure he never expected.
Categories: Action/Adventure, Drama, Family.
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MPAA Rating: PG
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McBain. (1991) Chick Vennera, Michael Ironside, Steve James, Jay Patterson, Christopher Walken, Maria Conchita Alonso. Directed by James Glickenhaus. An ex-Ranger agrees to avenge the death of his former CO at the hands of Columbian drug lords.
Categories: Action Adventure.
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MPAA Rating: R
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Meatballs
Part II. (1984) Richard Mulligan, Kim Richards, John Mengatti,
Misty Rowe, Paul Stout, Scott Stout, Ralph Seymour, Jason Hervey.
Directed by Ken Wiederhorn. Flash, a border-line juvenile delinquent
is given the choice of being a counselor in training at Camp Sasquatch
or going to reform school. He is put in charge of a group of young
adolescents who disccover an ET send-up alien. Additionally, Flash
has to defend his camp's honor in a boxing match against their
rivals across the lake who are trying to shut Camp Sasquatch down.
Categories: Comedy, Teenagers.
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MPAA Rating: PG
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The Messengers. (2007) Kristen Stewart, Dylan McDermott, Penelope Ann Miller, John Corbett, Evan and TheodoreTurner, William B. Davis, Dustin Milligan. Directed by the Pang Brothers. Desperate for a fresh start after a tough two years in Chicago, the Solomon family movcs to an isolated sunflower farm in North Dakota. The calm and solitude of their new life is shattered when the kids in the family begin to see grotesque ghosts.
Category: Horror.
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ChucksConnection Rating: MPAA Rating: PG-13
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Men Don't Leave. (1990) Jessica Lange,
Arliss Howard, Joan Cusack, Kathy Bates, Tom Mason, Chris O'Donnell, Charlie Korsmo.
Directed by Paul Brickman. When her husband suddenly dies, a young
mother and her two sons must leave their comfortable life and
home in the suburbs and move to the city. While she tries to rebuild
her life and try to keep her family together, her two sons provide
her with many trials and tribulations.
Category: Drama.
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MPAA Rating: PG-13
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The Midas Touch. (1997) Trevor O'Brien, Ashley Catagna, Joey Simmrin, David Jeremiah. Directed by Peter Manoogian. When poor Billy Bright acquires the power of turning everything he touches into gold, money is suddenly no problem. But unfortunately he turns his grandmother into gold and she is stolen by crooks who want to melt her down into gold ingots.
Categories: Comedy, Family.
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MPAA Rating: PG
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Midnight Madness. (1980) David Naughton, Debra Clinger, David Damas, Michael J. Fox, Stephen Furst, Patricia Alice Albrecht, Andy Tennant, Brian Frishman, Joel Kenney, Sal Lopez, Maggie Roswell, Robyn Petty, Betsy Lynn Thompson, Carol Gwynn Thompson, Eddie Deezen, Marvin Katzoff, Christopher Sands, Michael Gitomer, Brad Wilkin, Dirk Blocker, Curt Ayers, Trevor Hemley, Keny Long. Written and directed by David Wechter and Michael Nankin. An eccentric graduate student persuades five teams of college students to chase around Los Angeles looking for clues during an elaborate an all night treasure hunt.
Categories: Comedy, Family.
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MPAA Rating: PG
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The Million Dollar Kid. (1984) Richard Thomas, Marueen McCormick, Andrew Sandler, C. Thomas Howell, Corey Feldman, Estelle Getty, Tandy Travis, Kaye Ballard, Clint Howard, Alsion Lohman, Ron Carlson, Mark Metcalf.. Directed by Neil Mandt. This modern remake of the Mark Twain story "The 30,000 Bequest" is about the comic trials, tribulations. and realizations about what is important in life that the Hunter family goes through when they misplace a winning lottery ticket and chase all over town trying to find it.
Categories: Comedy, Family.
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MPAA Rating: PG
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Mind Games. (1989) Maxwell Caulfield, Edward Albert, Shawn Weatherly, Matt Norero. Directed by Bob Yari. A psychological thriller about a family's battle for survival against a cruel, scheming stranger who decides to take control of the family then destroy it thorugh deciet and emotional manipulation.
Category: Drama.
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MPAA Rating: PG
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Miracle Dogs Too. (2006) Charles Durning, Leslie Ann Warren, Janine Turner, Patrick Muldoon, Dustin Hunter Evans, Preston Jones, David Keith, Jaleel White, Alana Austin, Jonathan Trent. Directed by Richard Gabai. Ten-year old Zack finds two abandoned dogs that he wants to keep, especially after he discovers that they have magical powers.
Categories: Drama, Family.
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ChucksConnection Rating:
MPAA Rating: NR, would be G
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