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The Chuck Taylor in Films: S
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 The S films are a long list but definitely worth checking out.
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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: Safety Patrol,
St. Elmo's Fire, The
Sandlot, The Sandlot 2, The Sandlot 3 Heading Home, Saving Shiloh, Saw II, School of Life, The School of Rock, Secret Admirer, The
Secret Agent Club, A Separate Peace, Sergeant Pepper, Seven Minutes in Heaven, 17 Again, Severed Ties, Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, The
Shaggy Dog, Shakes the Clown, She's All That, The Shining, Shorts, Shredder Orpheus, Sidekicks,
Simon Birch, Sin City, The Skateboard
Kid, Skinner, Skinwalkers, Skipped
Parts, Sky High, Skyrunners, Sleepers, Sling
Blade, Sneakers, Snoopers,
SpaceCamp, Speak, Speed 2, Spooky House, Spring Break Shark Attack, Spy Kids, Spy Trap, Stamp of a Killer, Stand
and Deliver, Stand By Me, Star
Kid, Starman, State Park, Staying
Together, Step Brothers, The Stepfather, Stepmonster, Stranger Than Paradise, Streets
of Gold, Step Up 3D, Stuart Little, Stuart Little 2, The
Stupids, Summer Camp Nightmare, The Sunchaser, Super 8, The Sure
Thing, Surf Ninjas, Sweet Talker, The Sweetest Gift, Swing, Swing Vote, Sydney White.
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Safety Patrol. (1998) Leslie Nielsen,
Bug Hall, Lainie Kazan, Curtis Armstrong, Stephanie Faracy,
Alex McKenna, Ed McMahon, 'Weird Al' Yankovic. Directed by Savage
Steve Holland. An accident-prone but well-meaning 11 year old
dreams of joining his school's elite Safety Patrol. But when he
is actually put on the patrol it is a setup by a gang of bad "safeties"
who plan to make him a fall guy for their campus thievery.
Categories:
Comedy, Family.
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MPAA Rating: NR [would be PG]
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St. Elmo's Fire. (1985) Emilio
Estevez, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson,
Ally Sheedy, Mare Winningham, Martin Balsam, Andie MacDowell.
Directed by Joel Schumacher. Seven friends, recent college graduates,
are searching for a place in "the real world" as they
face the issues of career, love relationships, and commitment.
Category: Drama.
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MPAA Rating: R
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The Sandlot.
(1993) Tom Guiry, Mike Vitar, Patrick Renna, Chauncey
Leopardi, Brandon Adams, Grant Gelt, Shane Obedzinski,
Victor DiMattia, Karen Allen, James Earl Jones. Directed
by David Mickey Evans. A nostalgic look at a group of boys who
spend every possible moment of their summer playing baseball.
This film celebrates a simpler lifestyle for kids when all that
was needed for a good time was a baseball glove and ball to throw,
a pair of chucks to run around in, some friends to hang out with,
and a sandlot where they could play the game.
Categories:
Comedy, Family, Coming of Age.
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MPAA Rating: PG
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The Sandlot 2. (2005) Cole Evan Weiss, Max Lloyd-Jones, Brett Kelly, James Willson, Smanatha Burton, Neilen Benvegnu, Sean Burdy, Jessica King, Austin Dunn, James Earl Jones. Directed by David Mickey Evans. Ten years later, a new group of kids have moved into the sandlot, including some girls, and a budding young rocket scientist.
Categories: Comedy, Family.
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MPAA Rating: PG
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The Sandlot 3: Heading Home. (2007) Danny Nucci, Luke Perry, Keanu Pires, Sarah Deakins, Chauncey Leopardi, Brandon Olds, Cole Heppell, Kai James, Ryan Drescher, Cainan Wiebe, Meshach Peters,Samuel Patrick Chu, Renzo Carbonel. Directed by William Dear. Successful, arrogant baseball superstar Tommy "Santa" Santorelli travels back in time to 1976 and relives his boyhood days on the sandlot baseball team, this time choosing friendship over glory and ultimately earning both.
Categories: Comedy, Family.
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MPAA Rating: PG
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Saving Shiloh. (2006) Jason Dolley, Ann Dowd, Bonnie Bartlett, Jordan Garrett, Scott Hedley, Scott Wilson. Directed by Sandy Tung. The third film in a trilogy has Marty trying to investigate a crime that his neighbot Judd is suspected of commiting.
Categories: Drama, Family.
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MPAA Rating: PG
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Saw II. (2005) Donnie Wahlberg, Shawnee Smith, Tobin Bell, Frank G, Glenn Plummer, Dina Meyer, Emmanuelle Vaugnier, Beverley Mitchell, Erik Knudsen, Tim Burd, Lyriq Bent, Noam Jenkins. Written and directed by Darren Lynn Bousman. Twisted mastermind Jigsaw is dying of cancer, but before he dies he wants to play a final game with Detective Matthews. The bait: a group of people locked up in a booby trapped house that includes Matthews' son Daniel.
Categories: Horror, Crime and Mystery.
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MPAA Rating: R
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School of Life. (2005) Ryan Reynolds, David Paymer, Chelsea Florko, Andrew Robb, Don McKay. Directed by William Dear. A hip new teacher makes a big impact on the students and faculty of a middle school.
Categories: Drama, Comedy, Family.
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MPAA Rating: PG
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The School of Rock. (2003) Jack Black, Joan Cusack, Mike White, Sarah Silverman, Miranda Cosgrove, Joey Gaydos, Jr., Robert Tsai, Angelo Massagli, Kevin Alexander Clark. Directed by Richard Linklater. A wannabe rock star, kicked out of his own band, and in desperate need of cash, poses as a substitute teacher at an exclusive private elementary school. When he discovers that his students have musical talent, he turns the class into a rock group to compete in a local battle of the bands.
Categories: Comedy, Musical.
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MPAA Rating: PG-13
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Secret Admirer.
(1985) C.Thomas Howell, Lori Loughlin, Kelly Preston, Fred
Ward. Directed by David Grenwalt. A passionate, unsigned love
letter sets off an extraordinary chain of events in a suburban
town. Intended for a young girl's secret love, it mistakenly falls
into the wrong hands over and over again.
Categories: Comedy,
Romance, Sexually Explicit, Teenagers.
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MPAA Rating: R
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The Secret Agent Club. (1996)
Hulk Hogan, Matthew McCurley, Lesley-Anne Down, Maurice Woods,
Danny McCue, Ashley Power, Jimmy Pham, Richard Moll, Barry
Bostwick, Edward Albert. Directed by John Murlowski. A toy store
owner is really a secret agent working for the government. When
he gets into some trouble, his son and friends band together to
help him out.
Category: Action/Adventure, Family.
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MPAA Rating: PG
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A Separate Peace. (1972) John Heyl, Parker Stevenson, William Roerick, Peter Brush, Victor Bevine, Scott Bradbury, John E.A. Mackenzie, Mark Trefethen, Frank Wilich Jr. Directed by Larry Peerce. Gene and Finny are roommates at a New England prep school at the onset of World War II. Jealous of Finny's popularity, Gene is responsible for a crippling accident in a moment of anger and treachery. The repercussions of this act bring Gene face to face with his inner nature and its symbolic parallel to men at war.
Categories: Drama, Coming of Age.
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MPAA Rating: PG
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Sergeant Pepper. (2004) John Franklyn-Robbins, Johanna ter Steege, Neal Thomas, Carolyn Prein, Ulrich Thomsen, Peter Lohmeyer, Valeria Bertl, Barbara Auer, Oliver Broumis. Written and directed by Sandra Nettelbeck. When millionaire Gregor von Gordenthal passes away, he leaves his estate to his faithful dog named Sergeant Pepper, much to the dismay of his adult deadbeat children who try to poison Pepper so that they can acquire his money. Pepper runs away and is adopted by loner 6-year-old Felix Singer, who likes to wear a Tigger costume and can talk to the dog. Felix is part of an eccentric family that includes an older sister totally devoted to sports, a musician mom, and a father who is obsessed with creating wild inventions he hopes will make the family rich. When the Gordenthal children come after Pepper, the kids try to save him from harm and end up in jeopardy themselves.
Categories: Comedy, Family, Fantasy.
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MPAA Rating: [Not rated] Would be G
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Seven Minutes in Heaven. (1986) Jennifer Connelly, Byron Thames, Maddie Corman, Michael Zaslow, Polly Draper, Alan Boyce, Billy Wirth. Directed by Linda Feferman. Jeff, Polly, and Natalie are longtime friends with growing up pains. Jeff, who doesn't get along with his new stepfather, has run away from home and has moved in with Natalie on a friends only basis while her father is out of town. Natalie is just discovering what it is like to have a relationship with a popular high school jock, and Polly flips over a big league ball player who she accidentally meets one afternoon.
Categories: Comedy, Romance, Teenagers.
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MPAA Rating: PG-13
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17 Again. (2009) Matthew Perry, Zac Efron, Leslie Mann, Thomas Lennon, Tyler Steelman, Allison Miller, Sterling Knight, Michelle Trachtenberg, Adam Gregory, Hunter Parrish, Mario Cassem, Katerina Graham, Tiya Sircar, Melissa Ordway. Directed by Burr Steers. A man whose life didn't turn out the way he wanted to gets a chance to life it over again.
Categories: Comedy, Romance, Drama.
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MPAA Rating: PG-13
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Severed Ties. (1992) Johnny Legend, Garrett Morris, Billy Morrissette, Oliver Reed, Elke Sommer, Roger Perkovich. Directed by Damon Santostefano. A regeneration experiment on a severed arm goes awry, turning the limb into a murderous, reptilian creature. This has severe consequences for the scientist, and his scheming mother, who tries to sell his discovery to neo-Nazis.
Categories: Horror.
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MPAA Rating: R
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Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll. (2010) Andy Serkis, Tom Hughes, Clifford Samuel, Joseph Kennedy, Arthur Darvill, James Jagger, Wesley Nelson. Directed by Mat Whitecross. A biography of Ian Dury who was stricken with polio at a young age and defied expectations by becoming one of the founder of the punk-rock scene in Britain in the 1970s.
Categories: Drama. Biography, Music.
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MPAA Rating: NR, would be PG-13
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The Shaggy Dog.
(1959) Fred MacMurray, Jean Hagen, Tommy Kirk, Annette
Funicello, Tim Considine, Kevin Corcoran. Directed by Charles
Barton. Wilby Daniels is just an ordinary teenager until a magical
ring accidentally transforms him into his attractive neighbor's
lumbering sheepdog. As a dog, he stumbles into a ring of spies
plotting to destroy the US space program.
Categories: Comedy,
Family, Science Fiction/Fantasy.
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MPAA Rating: G
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Shakes the Clown. (1992) Bobcat
Goldthwait, Julie Brown, Paul Dooley. Directed by Bobcat Goldthwait.
An alcoholic clown is framed for murder by rival clowns.
Category:
Comedy.
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MPAA Rating: R
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She's All That. (1999) Freddie Prinze, Jr., Rachael Leigh Cook, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, Paul Walker, Matthew Lillard, Anne Paquin, Kevin Pollak, Kieren Culkin, Eldon Hensen, Usher Raymond. Directed by Robert Iscove. When the girl friend of the campus stud suddenly dumps him, he makes a bet with a friend that he can turn a geeky girl into the prom queen.
Categories: Comedy, Romance, Coming of Age.
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MPAA Rating: PG
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The Shining. (1980) Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Barry Nelson. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. A family goes to be the caretakers of an isolated mountain resort hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.
Category: Horror.
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MPAA Rating: R
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Shorts. (2009) Jimmy Bennett, Jake Short, Kat Dennings, Trevor Gagnon, Devon Gearhart, Jolie Varier, Rebel Rodriguez, Leo Howard, Leslie Mann, Jon Cryer, William H Macy, James Spader, Angela Lanza. Written and directed by Robert Rodriguez. A young boy's discovery of a colorful, wish-granting rock causes chaos in the suburban town of Black Falls when jealous kids and scheming adults alike set out to get their hands on it.
Categories: Comedy, Family, Science Fiction/Fantasy.
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MPAA Rating: PG-13
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Shredder Orpheus. (1990) Robert McGinley, Jesse Bernstein, Megan Murphy, Gian-Carlo Scandiuzzi, Linda Severt, Eli Swensen. Directed by Robert McGinley. The mortal world faces imminent destruction from the devil's hypnotic Euthanasia Network broadcasts that corrupts and kills its viewers. Only rock-star Orpheus and his band of skateboarding "shredders" can see through what is going on, and they must descend into the underworld to free the airwaves and rescue Orpheus' wife Euridyce.
Category: Horror.
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MPAA Rating: R
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Sidekicks. (1992) Jonathan
Brandis, Chuck Norris, Beau Bridges, Mako, Julia Nickson,
Richard Moll, Joe Piscopo. Directed by Aaron Norris. A teenager
fantasizes that he is the partner of action hero Chuck Norris
to escape his real life problems.
Categories: Action/Adventure,
Drama, Coming of Age, Sports.
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MPAA Rating: PG
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Simon Birch. (1998)
Ian Michael Smith, Joseph Mazzello, Ashley Judd, Oliver
Platt, David Strathairn, John Robinson. Directed by Mark
Steven Johnson. Two adolescent misfits growing up in the early
1960's in a small New Hampshire town -- Joe, a kid with no identified
father and Simon, one of the brightest kids in town, but suffering
from the physical defect of dwarfism and the neglect of his parents
-- become best friends. But soon some cruel twists of fate confound
their already difficult lives.
Categories: Drama, Family.
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MPAA Rating: PG
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Sin City. (2005) Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Clive Owen, Nick Stahl, Powers Boothe, Rutger Hauer, Elijah Wood, Rosario Dawson, Benicio Del Toro, Jaime King, Devon Aoki, Brittany Murphy. Directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller. A contemporary film-noir, with clever uses of spot color, based on the comic novellas writen and illustrated by Frank Miller. Three intertwined storylines are about Marv, a brutal thug seeking the murderer of a beautiful woman who was killed while asleep in bed with him; Dwight, an ex-photographer who accidentally kills a corrupt hero cop and has to cover it up; and Hartigan, a police detective who is incarcerated for a crime he didn't commit to protect a young victim.
Categories: Crime and Mystery, Action/Adventure.
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MPAA Rating: R
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The Skateboard
Kid. (1993) Trevor Lissauer, Timothy Busfield, Bess
Armstrong, Cliff De Young, Rick Dean, Dom DeLuise, Shanelle
Workman. Directed by Larry Swerdlove. Lots of great chucks
shots in this fantasy about Zack, a teenaged skateboarder who
moves from Los Angeles to a small town, where the local skaters
treat him with hostility. When lightning strikes Zack's skateboard,
it becomes alive, turning into Rip, a wise cracking personality
who becomes Zack's confidant and helps him fight against the local
skateboard gang who are continually trying to take him down.
Categories:
Drama, Teenagers.
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MPAA Rating: PG
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Skinner. (1995) Ted Raimi,
Ricki Lake, David Warshofsky, Richard Schiff, Traci Lords. Directed
by Ivan Nagy. A psychopath wields a sickening assortment of blades
and cleavers as he stalks hookers for his grotesque mission of
murder. But one of his intended victims vows to stop him.
Category:
Horror.
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MPAA Rating: R
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Skinwalkers. (2006) Jason Behr, Elias Koteas, Matthew Knight, Rhona Mitra, Natssia Mathe, Kim Coates, Sarah Carter, Tom Jackson. Directed by James Isaac. Two packs of werewolves, one that lives to hunt and kill, and one that lives in peace with society by restraining themselves when the urge comes on them. An ancient prophecy is coming true with a red moon, and their fate lies in the hands of a thirteen-year-old boy who each group wants to control.
Category: Horror.
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MPAA Rating: PG
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Skipped Parts. (2000) Jennifer
Jason Leigh, Bug Hall, Mischa Barton, Drew Barrymore, Peggy
Lipton, Brad Renfro. Directed by Tamra Davis. Fourteen year old
Sam Callahan is sent to live in Wyoming with his rebellious mother
by his tyrannical grandfather, a powerful southern politican.
An aspiring novelist, Sam is obsessed with finding out about sex,
and enlists the assistance of his fantasy girl, a beautiful classmate,
and his mother to find out about the "skipped parts"
of his education that his favorite authors omit.
Categories:
Drama, Romance, Sexually Explicit, Teenagers.
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MPAA Rating: R
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Sky High. (2005) Michael Angarano, Danhielle Panabaker, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kurt Russell, Kelly Preston, Kevin Heffernan, Dee Jay Daniels, Will Harris, Loren Berman, Nicholas Braun, Dustin Ingram, Stephen Strait, Cloris Leachman. Directed by Mike Mitchell. Set in a world where superheroes are commonly known and accepted, young Will, the son of Commander Stronghold and Josie Jetstream, tries to find a balance between being a normal teenager and the expectations that he will be another superhero.
Categories: Comedy, Family, Action/Adventure, Science Fiction/Fantasy.
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MPAA Rating: PG
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Skyrunners. (2009) Joey Polari, Kelly Blatz, Conrad Coates, Jacqueline MacInnes Wood, Nathan Stphenson, Kerry Lai Fatt, Linda Kash. Directed by Ralph Hemecker. Fourteen-year-old Tyler, a bullied freshman, and his older brother Nick, a senior trying to be succesful with girls and life in general by lying a lot, run into a small alien spaceship one night. Nick grabs the ship, and Tyler takes a ride in it. The next day, "Skyrunner" Tyler has had a growth spurt, which makes him appear older, and discovers he has incredible physical powers. This turns his high school life upside down. After Tyler is abducted by beings in pursuit of the space ship who intend to takeover Earth, he must depend on Nick to rescue him.
Categories: Comedy, Action/Adventure, Science Fiction/Fantasy.
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Sleepers.
(1997) Robert de Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Patric, Joseph
Perrino, Brad Pitt, Brad Renfro, Kevin Bacon, Terry
Kinney, Bruno Kirby, Vittorio Gassman, Billy Crudup, Jonathan
Tucker, Ron Eldard, Geoffrey Widgor, Minnie Driver.
Directed by Barry Levinson. Based on the controversial novel by
Lorenzo Carcaterra, Sleepers is the story of four boyhood
friends growing up in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen whose lives were
radically changed when a scam that they pulled on a local street
vendor resulted in serious injury to an innocent bystander. Sentenced
to serve a year in the Wilkinson Home for Boys, the boys were
sexually abused and tormented by the four guards in charge of
their ward. While the boys agreed never to talk about what happened
to them at the Home, when two of them encounter one of the guards
in a restaurant thirteen years later, they impulsively murder
him as payback for their abusive treatment. The two other friends,
along with the local crime boss and eventually their parish priest
conspire together to free them from the murder charge and at the
same time expose and punish the remaining guards.
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Drama, Crime and Mystery.
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MPAA Rating: R
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Sling Blade.
(1996) Billy Bob Thornton, Dwight Yoakam, J.T. Walsh, John Ritter,
Lucas Black, Robert Duvall, Natalie Canerday. Written and
directed by Billy Bob Thornton. An unconventional character study
written, directed, and starring Billy Bob Thornton about a seemingly
retarded man recently released from a mental hospital after years
of incarceration for murdering his mother and her lover when he
was nine. The main story line is based around the friendship that
Thornton develops with a young boy, and the boy's widowed mother
as the tragedy of his own life is gradually revealed.
Categories:
Drama, Crime and Mystery.
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MPAA Rating: R
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Sneakers. (1992) Robert Redford,
Sidney Portier, Dan Ackroyd, Mary McDonnell, River Phoenix,
Ben Kingsley, David Strathairn. Directed by Phil Alden Robinson.
A renegade team of computer hackers are blackmailed into carrying
out a covert operation against a industrialist who has developed
the ultimate computer weapon -- a black box that is capable of
breaking into any computer system in the world. A great ensemble
cast led by Robert Redford and Sidney Poitier.
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Drama, Crime and Mystery.
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MPAA Rating: PG-13
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Snoopers. (1997) (aka The Knickerbocker Kids) Rebecca Keeling, Aled Roberts, Olivia Hallinan, Mathias Rothammer. Directed by Marijan D. Vajda. Four friends meet at an old cemetary and stumble over the grave of a famous magician. Things soon turn spooky as they're haunted by a cloaked stranger and mysterious voices begin erupting from the magician's grave. When they discover a magnificent stolen diamond the chase begins in earnest.
Categories: Adventure, Crime and Mystery, Family.
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MPAA Rating: PG
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SpaceCamp. (1986) Kate Capshaw,
Lea Thompson, Kelly Preston, Larry B. Scott, Joaquin Phoenix,
Tate Donovan, Tom Skerritt. Directed by Harry Winer. A
group of teenagers attend a summer camp designed to teach them
the workings of the NASA space program. While sitting in the spacedraft
during an engine test, the groups is accidentally launched into
the weightless world of outer space. Using what little they have
learned, they must try to bring themesleves safely back to earth.
Categories: Drama, Action/Adventure, Teenagers.
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MPAA Rating: PG
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Speak. (2005) Kristen Stewart, Elizabeth Perkins, D.B. Sweeney, Steve Zahn, Michael Angarano. Directed by Jessica Sharzer. Melinda is a young high school loner who has been stunned into silence by a traumatic event.
Categories: Coming of Age, Drama, Teenagers.
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MPAA Rating: PG-13
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Speed 2. (1997)
Sandra Bullock, Jason Patric, Willem Dafoe. Directed by
Jan DeBont. The only thing returning in this sequel is Sandra
Bullock playing Annie Porter. Annie goes on a Caribbean luxury
cruise with her boyfriend, a Los Angeles police detective. But
their trip to paradise turns deadly when a lunatic computer programmer
takes over the boat and sets it on a course for destruction.
Categories:
Drama, Action/Adventure.
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MPAA Rating: PG-13
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Spooky House. (2000) Ben Kingsley, Matt Weinberg, Ronald Joshua Scott, Simon Baker, Jason Fuchs, Chaz Monet, Katharine Isabelle, Myles Ferguson, Kyle L:abine, Mercedes Ruehl. Written and directed by William Sachs. A young orphan tries to befriend a reclusive magician and learn about the magic secrets in his large mansion.
Categories: Family, Action/Adventure.
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MPAA Rating: PG
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Spring Break Shark Attack. (2005) Shannon Lucio, Riley Smith, Justin Baldoni, Bianca Lishansky, Genevieve Howard, Warren McAslan, Kathy Baker, Bryan Brown, Wayne Thornley, Wayne Harrison. Directed by Paul Shapiro. Killer sharks invade the waters off the Florida coast as co-eds celebrate spring break.
Categories: Drama, Action/Adventure.
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MPAA Rating: PG-13
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Spy Kids. (2001) Robert Patrick,
Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino, Alexa Vargas, Daryl Sabara,
Tony Shalhoub, Teri Hatcher, Cheech Marin, George Clooney. Directed
by Robert Rodriguez. Top international spies Gregorio and Ingrid
Cortez have retired to raise a family. But when they are called
back on a secret mission, the Cortezes are separated from their
family and kidnapped by the evil Fegan Floop. Their two kids,
Carmen and Juni, then set out to rescue them.
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Family, Action/Adventure.
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Spy Trap. (1988) (aka Zits)
Danielle DuClos, Jason Kristofer, Cameron Johann, Devin
Ratray, Kimble Joyner, Marian Seldes, Elya Baskin, Victor Steinbach,
Leonard Terno, Franklin Cover. Directed by Arthur Sherman. When
the music teacher of five bright and well connected middle school
kids living in Washington, D.C. needs expensive surgery, the kids
concoct a plan to raise a quick $100,000. Using futuristic toys
for blueprints, they concoct bogus, top secret military plans
and sell them to the Russians.
Categories: Teenagers, Action/Adventure.
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Stamp of a Killer. (1987) Joseph
Hacker, Judith Light, Audra Lindley, Billy O'Sullivan,
Rhea Perlsman, Jimmy Smits, Spice Williams. Directed by Larry
Elikann. When a young boy acquires a small, seemingly insignificant
postage stamp, the boy, his pregnant mother, and an ambitious
police detective all become players in a high stakes espionage
game. The stamp contains top secrect missile data, and the courier
who lost it will stop at nothing to get it back.
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Action/Adventure, Crime and Mystery, Drama, Romance.
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Stand and Deliver.
(1988) Edward James Olmos, Lou Diamond Phillips, Rosana
de Soto, Andy Garcia. Directed by Ramon Menendez. Edward James
Olmos' tour-de-force as the uncompromising mathematics teacher
in a ghetto high school who insists on teaching his students calculus.
Categories: Drama, Teenagers.
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Stand By Me.
(1986) Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry
O'Connell, Kiefer Sutherland, Richard Dreyfuss, Andy Lindberg.
Directed by Rob Reiner. A coming of age
story about four twelve year olds living in a small town in the
year 1959, whose lives were changed by a chance adventure to find
the dead body of a missing boy that had been spotted in the woods
twenty miles away.
Categories: Coming of Age, Drama.
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MPAA Rating: R [should be PG-13]
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Star Kid. (1997) Joseph Mazzello,
Richard Gilliland, Corinne Bohrer, Alex Daniels, Joey Simmrin.
Written and directed by Manny Coto. Things can't get much worse
for young Spencer; hailed as a dork in school and a dweeb at home,
Spencer's only escape is in comic book adventures. But then a
weird meteor shower leaves behind a automated warrior suit called
"Cy", and when Spencer puts the suit on, he discovers
that he has super powers.
Categories: Drama, Adventure,
Science Fiction.
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Starman. (1984)
Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith, Richard
Jaeckel. Directed by John Carpenter. An alien whose space ship
crash lands on earth takes the form of a young widow's late husband
and forces her to help him travel to Arizona where he can be reunited
with his mother ship. At first she resists, but gradually as the
alien develops more human traits reminding her of her husband,
and she sees the hostile attempts by the government to capture
the starman, she begins to actively help him.
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Drama, Science Fiction/Fantasy.
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State Park. (1988) Kim Myers, Isabelle Mejias, James Wilder, Jennifer Inch, Brian Dooley, Walter Massey, Christopher Bolton, Peter Virgile, Louis Tucci, Andrew Jackson. Directed by Kerry Feltham and Rafal Zielinski. An evil business man wants to build a pesticide factory next to a state park, with secret plans to dump toxic waste in the area. The man's biggest problem is a local protester who dresses into a bear costume and does everything possible to prevent this ecological disaster. Meanwhile, different teens with different stories get their lives crossed as they intend to participate in saving the park..
Categories: Comedy, Teenagers, Sexually Explicit.
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Staying Together.
(1989) Sean Astin, Stockard Channing, Dermot Mulroney,
Tim Quill, Melinda Dillon, Jim Haynie, Levon
Helm. Directed by Lee Grant. Three brothers in a small
town have a good time partying, working in the family chicken
restaurant, and dreaming of how they will expand it when they
take over. When their father unexpectedly sells the restaurant
without telling them, their futures become uncertain, and each
of the three is forced to choose a new life.
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Drama, Coming of Age, Sexually Explicit.
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Step Brothers. (2008) Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Mary Steenburgen, Richard Jenkins, Adam Scott, Kathryn Hahn, Andrea Savage, Lurie Poston, Elizabeth Yozamp, Logan Manus. Directed by Adam McKay. Two spoiled guys become competitive stepbrothers after their single parents get hitched.
Category: Comedy.
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MPAA Rating: R
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The Stepfather. (2009) Dylan Walsh, Sela Ward, Penn Badgley, Amber Heard, Sherry Stringfield, Paige Turco Jon Tenney. Directed by Nelson McCormick. Michael returns home from military school to find his mother happily in love and living with her new boyfriend. As the two men get to know each other, he becomes more and more suspicious of the man who is always there with a helpful hand.
Category: Mystery, Thriller.
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MPAA Rating: R
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Stepmonster. (1993) Alan Thicke, Robin Riker, Bill Corben, Corey Feldman, George Gaynes, Ami Dolenz, Edie McClurg, John Astin. Directed by Jeremy Stanford. When young comic book fanatic Todd Dougherty accuses his soon-to-be stepmother of being a monster, no one believes him -- except for the evil stepmother.
Categories: Comedy, Fantasy.
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Stranger Than Paradise. (1983) John Lurie, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson, Cecillia Stark, Danny Rosen. Directed by Jim Jarmusch. Road film about two New York slackers, Willie and Eddie, who are bored with their lives and go on a trip to Cleveland to see Willie's cousin Eva, and then take her with them to Florida.
Categories: Comedy, Drama.
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Streets of Gold.
(1986) Klaus Maria Brandauer, Adrian Pasdar, Wesley
Snipes. Directed by Joe Roth. A former Soviet boxing champion
who defected to the United States after being denied the right
to represent the USSR in the Olympics has become a bitter disillusioned
man living in obscurity. Then two promising young boxers persuade
him to be their coach and he begins to regain his self-respect,
and ultimately his revenge.
Categories: Drama, Sports.
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MPAA Rating: R
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Step Up 3D. (2010) Rick Malambri, Adam G. Sevani, Sharni Vinson, Alyson Stoner, Keith Stallworth. Directed by Jon Chu. A tight-knit group of New York City street dancers, including Luke (Malambri) and Natalie (Vinson), who are trying to save their warehouse studio, team up with NYU freshman Moose (Sevani), and find themselves pitted against the world's best hip hop dancers in a high-stakes showdown.
Categories: Musical, Drama.
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Stuart Little. (1999) Michael J. Fox, Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie, Jonathan Lipnicki. (The animated mouse Stuart Little, voiced by Michael J. Fox wears red high tops throughout) Directed by Rob Minkoff. The Little family adopts a charming young mouse named Stuart, but the family cat wants to get rid of him.
Categories: Comedy, Family.
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Stuart Little 2. (2002) Michael J. Fox, Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie, Jonathan Lipnicki. (The animated mouse Stuart Little, voiced by Michael J. Fox wears red high tops throughout) Directed by Rob Minkoff. Stuart and Snowball set out across town to rescue a friend.
Categories: Comedy, Family.
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The Stupids. (1996) Tom Arnold,
Jessica Lundy, Bug Hall, Alex McKenna. Directed by John
Landis. The Stupids are a typical suburban family except for one
thing -- no brains but the ability to stumble into situations
and make things work out okay. The plot of this film starts when
the father discovers that someone has been taking the garbage
right off their curb.
Categories: Comedy, Family.
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Summer Camp Nightmare. (1987) Charles
Stratton, Harold Pruett, Adam Carl, Tom Fridley, Stuart Rogers,
Melissa Reeves, Chuck Connors. When the rules and restrictions
set by an out-of-touch summer camp director get out of hand, a
young rebel uses the frustration and rage of the campers to seize
control of the camp. But the young rebel is just as crazy as the
camp director, and the takeover turns into a nightmare of terror
and anarchy.
Category: Drama.
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The Sunchaser. (1996) Woody
Harrelson, Jon Seda, Anne Bancroft, Alexandra Tydings,
Matt Mulhern. Directed by Michael Cimino. A desparately ill native
American prisoner brought for treatment to a L.A. hospital kidnaps
a prominent oncologist and forces him to drive to a legendary
Navajo healing place.
Category: Drama.
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Super 8. (2011) Joel Courtney, Gabriel Basso, Kyle Chandler, Elle Fanning, Ron Eldard, Noah Emmerich, Rilery Griffiths. Written and directed by J. J. Abrams. During the summer of 1979, a group of friends shooting amateur video movies witness a train crash and investigate subsequent unexplained events in their small town.
Category: Drama, Action/Adventure.
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The Sure Thing. (1985) John Cusack, Daphne Zuniga, Anthony Edwards, Boyd Gaines, Tim Robbins, Nicollette Sheridan, Viveca Linfors, Lisa Jane Persky. Directed by Rob Reiner. John Cusack plays a college freshman at an Eastern college full of hope for improving his love life. When his best friend back home in California tells him that he has set up a "sure thing" for him over Christmas break, he ends up riding back with a prim and proper coed also going to California.
Categories: Comedy, Romance, Teenagers.
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Surf Ninjas. (1993) Ernie Reyes, Jr., Ernie Reyes, Sr., Nicolas Cowan, John Carlen, Rob Schneider, Kelly Hu, Leslie Neilsen. Directed by Neal Israel. Two surfer brothers living in Southern California discover that they are the long lost princes from a China Sea island kingdom that has been taken over by a despotic madman when a royal ninja messenger from the island comes to summon them home. When they are attacked by goons of the dictator who want to destroy them, the brothers discover that they have inherited martial arts skills and an obligation to their people.
Categories: Comedy, Action/Adventure.
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Sweet Talker. (1991) Bryan Brown, Karen Allen, Justin Rosniak, Chris Heywood. Directed by Michael Jenkins. A fast talking con man just out of prison goes to an obscure Australian town with a grand scheme to fleece the landowners there by using the story of a Portuguese treasure ship that supposedly sank near their town. Living at a boarding house, he is soon affected by his relationship with a young boy and his mother, and is won over by the place and its people.
Categories: Comedy, Family.
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The Sweetest Gift. (1998) Helen Shaver, Diahann Carroll, Dylan Provencher, Tisha Campbel-Martin, Marc Donato, Kristin Fairlie, William S. Taylor. Directed by Stuart Margolin. Two neighboring families in Florida, one black and one white, struggle with the problems of race, poverty, prejudice, and absent fathers, as their children become friends over the course of one summer and fall.
Categories: Drama, Family.
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Swing. (2003) Innis Casey, Jacqueline Bisset, Barry Bostwick, Jonathan Winters, Nell Carter, Tom Skerritt, Constance Brennerman, Dahlia Weingort. Directed by Martin Guigui. Directed by Michael Jenkins. Anthony is a young man caught between his dream of being a full-time musician and pleasing both his father and goal-oriented fiance who want him to have a steady career in the family grocery business. Anthony finds support from his great Uncle Bill and an enigmatic older woman who teaches him to swing dance in a night club frozen in time from the 1940s.
Categories: Drama, Fantasy, Romance.
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Swing Vote. (2008) Kevin Costner, Madeline Caroll, Paula Patton, Kelsey Grammer, Dennis Hopper, Nathan Lane, Stanley Tucci, George Lopez, Judge Reinhold, Charles Esten. Directed by Joshua Michael Stern. Directed by Michael Jenkins. In a remarkable turn-of-events, the result of the presidential election comes down to one man's vote.
Categories: Comedy.
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Sydney White. (2007) Amanda Bynes, Sara Paxton, Matt Long, Jack Carpenter, Jeremy Howard, Crystal Hunt, Adam Hendershott , Danny Strong, Samm Levine, Libby Mintz, John Schneider, Arnie Pantoja, Donté Bonner, Brian Patrick Clarke. Directed by Joe Nussbaum. Sydney White is a down to earth college freshman who pledges her late mother's once dignified sorority. But sorority president and campus queen Rachel Witchburn doesn't like Sydney and blackballs her from the sorority, forcing Sydney to move in with seven geeky outcasts. With the help of her socially challenged new friends and Greek admirer Tyler Prince, Sydney takes on the reigning campus queen to transform the school's misguided social hierarchy.
Categories: Comedy, Drama.
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