Call Me By Your Name. (2017) Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel. Directed by Luca Guadagnino. In the 1980s, in a small town in northern Italy, an unlikely romance develops between Elio, a seventeen-year-old music student, and Oliver, an older American graduate student in archaeology staying at the family villa for six weeks while interning as a research assistant for Elio’s father.

R

A Call To Remember. (1997) Blythe Danner, Joseph Mantegna, David Lauscher, Kevin Zegers, Rita Zohar, Joe Spano. Directed by Jack Bender. Two Holocaust survivors who both lost their families in the death camps have emigrated to the United States and remarried. The couple find it difficult to deal with the desires of their two American-born sons to be independent and pursue normal activities like other Americans do. When the mother is mistakenly told that one of her sons has survived the death camps, this has a traumatizing effect on her and her family.

R

Cameron’s Closet. (1987) Scott Curtis, Cotter Smith, Mel Harris, Chuck McCann, Leigh McCloskey, Kim Laneford, Tab Hunter, Gary Hudson. Directed by Armand Mastroianni. A lonely young boy with psychic powers accidentally summons up a powerful demon during his imaginary play. When the demon kills his father and later his mother’s new boyfriend, a police detective and a psychologist investigate the bizzare deaths.

PG-13

Camp. (2013) Michael Mattera, Asante Jones, Grace Johnston, Miles Elliot, Matthew Jacob Wayne. Written and directed by Jacob Roebuck. Another camp movie with Christian undertones, this is about financial advisor Ken Matthews, who reluctantly agrees to become a counselor in order to impress a potential client. He is paired with hostile young Eli, a ten-year-old with an abusive and neglected past.

TV-PG

Camp Cool Kids. (2017) Connor Rosen, Logan Shroyer, Markie Post, Michael Gross, Tyree Brown, Emily Hahn, Jacob Phillips, Jordan Phillips, Juliocaesar Chavez, Christos Vasilopoulos. Directed by Lisa Post. Young Spencer must face his fears when he and his older brother are sent to a Christian summer camp soon after their father’s death.

NR,

would be PG

Camp Cucamonga. (1990) John Ratzenberger, Chad Allen, Jennifer Aniston, Candace Cameron Bure, Richard Herd, Dorothy Lyman, Danica McKellar, Breckin Meyer, Brian Robbins, Josh Saviano, Tasha Scott, Lauren Tewes, Jaleel White, G. Gordon Liddy, Sherman Hemsley. Directed by Roger Duchowny. A former accountant makes his dream come true of running a summer camp for kids in this typical comedy complete with the usual camper and counselor types, misadventures, and pranks.

NR

Camp Manna. (2018) Gary Busey, Jimmy Tatro, Joey Morgan, Luke Klein, Evan Koons. Written and directed by Eric Scott Johnson and Eric Machiela. Ian Fletcher, a “nonbeliever”, is shipped off to a backwoods Christian camp, where he is forced to compete in (and survive) a Biblically-themed Olympiad known as the God Games.

G

Camp Rock. (2008) Demi Lovato, Joe Jonas, Meaghan Jette Martin, Maria Canals Barrera, Alyson Stoner, Kevin Jonas, Nick Jonas. Directed by Matthew Diamond. When Mitchie gets a chance to attend Camp Rock, her life tackes an unpredictable twist, and she learns just how important it is to be true to yourself.

Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam. (2010) Demi Lovato, Joe Jonas, Meaghan Jette Martin, Maria Canals Barrera, Alyson Stoner, Kevin Jonas, Nick Jonas. Directed by Paul Hoen. Mitchie can’t wait to go back to Camp Rock but the new music camp across the lake has drummed up some serious competition leading to a battle of the bands.

R

Candyman. (2021) Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Colman Domingo, Kyle Kaminsky, Vanessa Williams, Brian King, Miriam Moss. Written and directed by Nia DaCosta. In present day, many years after the last of the Cabrini towers were torn down, Anthony and his partner move into a loft in the now gentrified Cabrini. A chance encounter with an old-timer exposes Anthony to the true story behind Candyman. Anxious to use these macabre details in his studio as fresh grist for paintings, he unknowingly opens a door to a complex past that unravels his own sanity and unleashes a terrifying wave of violence.

PG-13

Can’t Hardly Wait. (1998) Ethan Embry, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Lauren Ambrose, Peter Facinelli, Seth Green, Charlie Korsmo, Jenna Elfman, Joel Michally, Jay Paulson. Directed by Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont. The senior class at Huntington Hills High School is about to graduate and looking forward to their class party. Romance, revenge, and rock’n’roll are all part of the mix as the various campus groups all vie for final bragging rights as their high school days come to an end.

PG-13

Captain Ron. (1992) Kurt Russell, Martin Short, Mary Kay Place, Benjamin Salisbury, Meadow Sisto. Directed by Thom Eberhardt. A corporate executive and his family inherit a yacht and decide to sail it around the Caribbean. They have no experience sailing so they hire Captain Ron to skipper the boat.

PG-13

Casper Meets Wendy. (1998) Hillary Duff, Cathy Moriarty, Teri Garr, Shelley Duvall, George Hamilton. Directed by Sean McNamara. Casper, the friendly ghost, and Wendy the young witch, seek to outwit Desmond, a warlock who is out to destroy Wendy and her three aunts, and the three other ghosts who are frightening the people at a summer resort.

PG-13

The Cellar. (1990) Patrick Kilpatrick, Chris Miller, Michael Wren, Suzanne Savoy, Ford Rainey. Directed by Kevin Tenney. When young Willy comes to New Mexico to spend the summer with his divorced father and his new wife and baby, he accidentally unleashes a terrifying monster evil spirt conjured by Comanche Indians after the white man took their land. Although the monster starts wrecking havoc, Willy cannot convince his parents that it is real, but desperately tries to prove its existence and stop it from killing.

R

Chain of Fools. (2000) Steve Zahn, Salma Hayek, Jeff Goldblum, Elijah Wood, David Cross, Tom Wilkinson, Orlando Jones, Kevin Corrigan, David Hyde Pierce, Lara Flynn Boyle, Devin Drewitz. A heist comedy-romance about a hapless barber whose life takes a turn for the worse when he ends up in possession of a stolen treasure of ancient coins that his nephew swallows and simultaneously falls on the wrong side of the law and in love with the detective investigating the crime.

G

Change of Habit. (1969) Elvis Presley, Mary Tyler Moore, Barbara McNair, Edward Asner. Directed by William Graham. At an inner city medical clinic, young Dr. Carpenter is assigned three female medical social workers to assist him, but he doesn’t know that they are actually nuns. When loves starts to blossom between the doctor and Michelle, one of the nuns, she must decide whether to follow her heart or remain true to her vows.

R

Changing Habits. (1997) Moira Kelly, Dylan Walsh, Teri Garr, Eileen Brennan, Christopher Lloyd. Directed by Lynn Roth. A gifted young artist is running short of funds, and rather than ask for assistance from her estranged father (who is also a famous artist), she takes refuge in a run down house of nuns. But the lifestyle and everpresent chores are more than she bargained for, especially after she begins to become romantically involved with an art supply salesman.

PG

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. (2005) Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, David Kelly, Helena Bonham Carter, Noah Taylor, Missi Pyle, James Fox, Deep Roy, Christopher Lee, Adam Godley, Jordan Fry, Franziska Troegner, AnnaSophia Robb, Julia Winter, Philip Wiegratz. Directed by Tim Burton. Charlie and four other kids win a tour through the most incredible chocolate factory in the world, run by Willy Wonka, the world’s most unusual candy maker.

R

Charlie Bartlett. (2007) Anton Yelchin, Robert Downey Jr., Hope Davis, Kat Dennings, Tyler Hilton, Mark Rendall, Dylan Taylor, Megan Park, Jake Epstein, Jonathan Malen, Derek McGrath. Directed by Jon Poll. Expelled from a series of private schools, wealthy and intelligent teenager Charlie Bartlett must attend a public high school where he at first has trouble fitting in and is harassed by school bully Murphy Bivens. As he begins to better understand the social structure at the school, Charlie enlists Bivens to help him become the resident counsellor to other students, giving out advice and drugs that he gets from his own sessions with psychiatrists. He also falls in love with the principal’s daughter, tangles with the school district hierarchy, and learns to deal with his own family problems.

R

Charlie St. Cloud. (2010) Zac Efron, Charlie Tahan, Kim Basinger, Amanda Crew, Augustus Prew, Ray Liotta. Directed by Burr Steers. Charlie St. Cloud is a champion sailor with a bright future and a scholarship to Stanford. He and his younger brother Sam are very close. When Sam dies in a car crash that Charlie barely survives, he is devasted but given the gift of seeing his dead brother. Charlies passes on his bright future to continue seeing Sam every day at sunset. Later when the girl he falls in love with goes missing, he must choose between his girlfriend and his brother.

G

Charlotte’s Web. (2006) Dakota Fanning, Kevin Anderson, Essie Davis, Louis Corbett, Julian O’Donnell, Robyn Arthur, Siobhan Fallon, Gary Basaraba, Beau Bridges, plus voice overs by Julia Roberts, Steve Buscemi, John Cleese, Oprah Winfrey, Cedric the Entertainer, Kathy Bates, Reba McEntire, Robert Redford, Thomas Haden Church, André Benjamin, Dominic Scott Kay, Sam Shepard. Directed by Gary Winick. Excellent new adaption of the classic E. B. White tale about a young girl who adopts Wilbur, the runt of a litter pigs, the spider who helps him to survive, and how their actions end up affecting an entire Maine farm community.

PG

Chasing 3000. (2010) Trevor Morgan, Rory Culkin, Lauren Holly, Ray Liotta. Directed by Gregory J. Lanesey. Set against the backdrop of Roberto Clemente’s historic chase to get his 3000th hit, Mick and Roger, two brothers who recently moved to California from Pittsburgh run away from home to see the historic moment. But Roger suffers from Muscular Dystrophy and soon his illness complicates their travel.

PG

PG-13

Chasing Liberty. (2003) Mandy Moore, Matthew Goode, Mark Harmon, Jereny Piven, Annabella Sciorra, Stark Sands. The president’s teenaged daughter wants to experience some freedom from her ever-present secret service escorts. So on a trip to Europe, she engineers an impromptu escape, ending up in the arms of an attractive but reluctant British young man, a complete stranger, or is he?

PG

Cheaper by the Dozen. (2003) Steve Martin, Bonnie Hunt, Tom Welling, Hilary Duff, Ashton Kutcher, Kevin Schmidt, Alyson Stoner, Jacob Smith, Liliana Murry, Morgan York, Forrest Landis, Blake Woodruff, Brent and Shane Kinsman. Directed by Shawn Levy. The Bakers, a family with twelve kids, reluctantly move from small town Illinois to the big city when Tom Baker is hired as football coach of a Division 1 college team in Evanston. But when Kate, Tom’s wife, gets a big time book contract, Tom is left home alone with the kids while trying to deal with the pressures of coaching.

PG

Cheaper by the Dozen. (2022) Gabrielle Union, Zach Braff, Erika Christensen, Timon Kyle Durrett, Journee Brown, Kylie Rogers, Andre Robinson, Caylee Blosenski, Aryan Simhadri, Leo Abelo Perry, Mykal-Michelle Harris, Christian Cote, Sebastian Cote, Luke Prael, Brittany Daniel, Cynthia Daniel, Simeon Othello Daise. Directed by Gail Lerner. In this third remake, the Bakers are now a blended family of 14 with a hectic home life while simultaneously managing their family restaurant business. Things get even more intense when they relocate to the toney suburb of Calabasas.

NR,

would be R

The Child and the Dead. (2015) Henry Arvin, Daniel Hill, Henry Griffes, Jimmy Lee Jr., Jerry Buxbaum. Written and directed by Karina Ripper and Marc Ripper. A father, his son and girlfriend are left stranded on a forest road after a car accident with a stranger.

NR,

would be R

Child Eater. (2016) Cait Bliss, Brandon Smalls, Dave Klasko, James Wilcox, Melinda Chilton, Colin Critchley, Jason Martin. Written and directed by Erlingur Thoroddsen. A simple night of babysitting takes a horrifying turn when Helen realizes the boogeyman really is in little Lucas’ bedroom closet.

PG

Children on their Birthdays. (2002) Sheryl Lee, Christopher McDonald, Joe Pichler, Tania Raymonde, Jesse Plemons, Tom Arnold. Directed by Mark Medoff. Lily Jane Bobbit, a very self-possesed 13-year-old, makes an impact on a small postwar Alabama town with her adult-like bearing, ideas about people, and her desire to become a Hollywood star, while two best friends, Billy Bob and Preacher, vie for her attention.

R

Child’s Play 2. (1990) Alex Vincent, Jenny Agutter, Gerrit Graham, Christine Elise, Brad Dourif. Directed by John Lafia. This is the second film in the series about the evil doll Chucky who is trying to possess the soul of young Andy Barclay. Although burned to a crisp in the first film, Chucky is refurbished by the toy factory trying to dispel the negative publicity surrounding the doll. The chase begins again when Chucky is able to track Andy to the new foster home where he is now living.

PG

TV-PG

TV-PG

TV-PG

TV-PG

PG

NR,

would be G

NR,

would be PG

TV-G

NR,

would be R

Chucks. (2015) Ana Posch, Markus Subramaniam, Thomas Schubert, Steffi Reinsperger, Susi Stach. Written and directed by Gerhard Ertl and Sabine Hiebler. Mae, alienated from her mother after the death of her brother, roams the streets of Vienna as a punk in his red high top chucks. She lives in abandoned buildings, commits petty crimes, sprays walls with graffiti, and tries her hand at poetry slams. Her life goes through a big change when she meets and falls in love with Paul, a patient at the AIDS center where she is performing community service to stay out of jail. In German with English subtitles. Not yet released in the USA.

Category: Drama.

R

R

The Church. (1989) Asia Argento, Hugh Quarshie, Tomas Arana, Feodor Chaliapin, Barbara Cupisti, Antonella Vitale. Directed by Michele Soavi. When a sealed crypt in a gothic church is accidentally breached, spirits from a medieval massacre trapped inside for centuries reappear and unleash havoc.

PG

A Cinderella Story. (2004) Hillary Duff, Jennifer Coolidge, Chad Michael Murray, Dan Byrd, Regina King, Julie Gonzalo, Paul Rodriguez, Hannah Robinson. Directed by Mark Rossman. A modern day adaption of the classic story set in a San Fernando Valley high school and Cinderella (Sam) wears high top chucks.

PG-13

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant. (2009) Chris Massoglia, John C. Reilly, Ken Watanabe, Josh Hutcherson, Ray Sevenson, Patrick Fugit, Willem Dafoe, Salma Hayek. Directed by Paul Weitz. Drawn to the dark unpredictble world of the Cirque du Freak, a traveling sideshow of freaks and vampires, 16-year-old Darren decides to trade in his ordinary life for a chance to becaome an immortal vampire.

NR,

would be PG-13

The Cistern (Akrovates tou kipou). (2001) Giota Festa, Themis Bazaka, Giorgos Marinos, Michalis Evripiotis, Giorgos Pappas, Dmitri Thomas, Staths Vrachas, Sotiriadas Miltos, Hristos Nomikos. Written and directed by Christos Dimas. A multi-layered story set in a small Greek town near Athens complete with musical, tv show, and dream interludes that break up the tension and provide cultural insight to its time. On one level are the aspirations of five eleven-year-old best friends, who call themselves “the acrobats”, to become magicians and escape artists in the style of Houdini. The boys challenge each other in a cistern of water with a deadly turbine that randomly turns on and off. The next level is the story of Aaron’s (one of the boys) family, and how they deal with his grandmother’s deadly curse over his name, and the third level is the backdrop of political unrest between Turkey, Greece, and Cyprus in 1974. In Greek with English subtitles.

R

Clerks II. (2006) Brian O’Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith. Directed by Kevin Smith. A calamity at Dante and Randall’s shops sends them looking for new horizons — but they ultimately settle at Mooby’s, a fictional Disney/McDonald’s-style fast-food empire.

G

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes. (1995) Kirk Cameron, Larry Miller, Jason Bernand, Andrew Woodworth, Anne Tremko, Michael McCurley, Dean Jones. Directed by Peyton Reed. (Remake for television) Dexter Riley, a below average student at Medfield College, suddenly becomes a genius with a computer for a brain when a freak electrical accident transfers the entire content of a computer encyclopedia into his brain. Soon Dexter is famous, and now must deal with the pressures put on him by the college dean, jealous rivals, and the government, along with the estrangement he experiences with his friends. Not currently available on DVD.

NR,

would be R

Concrete Night. (2013) Johannes Brotherus, Jari Virman, Anneli Karppinen, Juhan Ulfsak. Written and directed by Pirjo Honkasalo. A fourteen-year-old boy living in a stifling Helsinki slum and having a death-oriented fantasy life takes some unwise life lessons from his soon-to-be-incarcerated older brother in this film noir made in Finland.

NR,

would be PG

Conni & Co. (2016) Emma Schweiger, Heino Ferch, Iris Berben, Ken Duken, Lisa Bitter, Anneke Kim Sarnau, Ben Knobbe, Oskar Keymer. Directed by Franziska Buch. Connie and her schoolmates work to rescue her dog from Direktor Möller, who mistreats the dog.

R

The Conrad Boys. (2006) Justin Lo, Boo Boo Stewart, Nick Bartzen, Barry Shay, Nancy Hancock. Directed by Justin Lo. Charlie tries to raise his highly imaginative younger brother after the sudden death of their mother. Their lives are complicated by the return of their long absent father, and Charlie’s romantic attraction to Nick, a drifter with a checkered past.

NR,

would be PG

Considering Love and Other Magic. (2016) Maddie Phillips, Ryan Grantham, Sheila McCarthy, Eric McCormack, Montana Lehrman, Karl Thordarson, Darcy Fehr, Nancy Sorel, Maria Kost, Rory J. Saper. Written and directed by Dave Schultz. A troubled teenager dealing with the suicide of her younger brother at home and failing her classes at school takes on a tutoring assignment with a younger teen living in a mansion who says he hasn’t left his home since the 1950s.

Contest. (2013) Kenton Duty, Danny Flaherty, Mary Beth Peil, Katherine McNamara, Kyle Dean Massey. Written and directed by Anthony Joseph Giunta. A bullied high school student who is a talented chef enters a contest to save his grandmother’s restaurant from foreclosure. He gets help from an unlikely ally, his main tormentor who must help him or be expelled from school.

PG

Cool Dog. (2010) Michael Pare, Jackson Pace, Cameron Ten Napel, Christa Campbell. Directed by Danny Lerner. When young Jimmy and his family move to New York City from Louisiana, they must leave the boy’s beloved German shepherd Rainey behind. But Rainey has other ideas.

Cool Runnings. (1993) Leon, Doug E. Doug, Rawle D.Lewis, Malik Yoba, John Candy. Directed by Jon Turtelltaub. Several Jamaican athletes, determined to make it to the Olympics, decide to compete in the bobsled event.

PG

Cooley High. (1975) Glynn Turman, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Garrett Morris, Cynthia Davis, Corin Rogers, Maurice Havis. Directed by Jon Turtelltaub. This look at black teen life in 1964 focuses around two friends Preach and Cochise who want to make the most of their final days as seniors.

NR,

would be G

Cooper and the Castle Hills Gang. (2011) Kyle Kirk, J.B. Edwards, Hayley Orantia, Kennedy Hermanson, Preston Falconer, Aidan Langford. Directed by Sam Ditore. Not sure whether this film is meant to be an updated Dennis the Menace, a commercial for Texas realtors, or another routine kid’s mystery set in today’s world with very 1950s characters. Mischievious young Cooper and his friends go on a search for Mr. Wilson’s missing wedding ring in his upscale, family friendly town. Available for viewing online at castlehills.com.

Categories: Comedy, Family.

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PG

Cornbread, Earl, and Me. (1975) Moses Gunn, Keith Wilkes, Bernie Casey, Rosalind Cash, Laurence Fishburne. Directed by Joe Manduke. When Cornbread, a promising high school basketball player about to leave the ghetto, is killed by two policemen who mistake him for a rapist, the local authorities use strong-arm methods to cover up what happened and silence the community. It is up to his younger brother and his friend Earl to find the courage to speak up and clear his name.

PG-13

Corvette Summer. (1978) Mark Hamill, Annie Potts, Eugene Roche, William Bryant, Kim Milford, Philip Bruns, Danny Bonaduce. Directed by Matthew Robbins. Ken, a high school student with great skill as a mechanic fixes up a Corvette Stingray in his auto shop class with the help of his classmates.  Unfortunately, the car is stolen, so Ken puts out all his efforts in getting it back. A hot tip leads him to Las Vegas, where he hooks up with a fledgling hooker, Vanessa, who helps him try to track down the Stingray before it gets away for good.

R

The Couch Trip. (1988) Dan Aykroyd, Walter Matthau, Charles Grodin, Donna Dixon, Richard Romanus. Directed by Michael Ritchie. John Burns, a not-so-crazy inmate of an Illinois insane asylum, intercepts a call to his psychiatrist and fraudulently accepts an offer to replace a stressed-out celebrity shrink as host of a radio call in show. Burns makes an ingenious escape to Los Angeles and quickly becomes a ratings success. But Burns’ scam is endangered when another con man posing as a priest gets on to him.

NR

Crash Landing. (2005) Antonio Sabaro, Jr., Michael Pare, Braianne Davis, Kevin Dobson, Brandon Barash. Directed by Jim Wynorski. A private flight for a billionaire’s daughter and her friends becomes a hellish ordeal when the plane is overtaken by a team of terrorists, plotting to hold the billionairess hostage. But there is one thing the hijackers didn’t count on — Major John Masters, who is also on board.

R

Creator. (1985) Peter O’Toole, Vincent Spano, Mariel Hemingway, Virginia Madsen. Directed by Ivan Passer. A quirky romance that stars Peter O’Toole as an eccentric Nobel laureate who is secretly trying to create a clone of his dear, departed wife, and enlists the services of a young graduate student to help him.

PG-13

Creed. (2015) MIchael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson, Phylicia Rashed, Andre Bellew, Tony Ward. Written and directed by Ryan Coogler. The former World Heavyweight Champion Rocky Balboa laces up his black high top chucks one more time and serves as a trainer and mentor to Adonis Johnson, the son of his late friend and former rival Apollo Creed.

PG-13

Creed II. (2018) MIchael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson, Phylicia Rashed, Dolph Lundgren, Florian Munteanu. Directed by Steven Caple Jr. Under the tutelage of Rocky Balboa, newly crowned heavyweight champion Adonis Creed faces off against Viktor Drago, the son of Ivan Drago.

PG-13

Critters 3. (1991) John Calvin, Katherine Cortez, Aimee Brooks, Leonardo di Caprio. Directed by Kristine Peterson. The fanged, famished fur-balls from outer space return for another outing, this time invading a run-down apartment building in Grover Springs where the greedy landlord is trying to get the tenants to leave.

PG-13

Crooklyn. (1994) Alfre Woodard, Delroy Lindo, David Patrick Kelly, Zelda Harris, Carlton Williams, Harif Rashed, Tse-Mach Washinton, Christopher Knowings. Directed by Spike Lee. Spike Lee’s semi-autobiographical film about an African-American family struggling to raise five children in Brooklyn during the 1970s, told from the point of view of the 10-year-old daughter.

PG-13

Cruella. (2021) Emma Stone, Tipper Seifert-Cleveland, Emma Thompson, Joel Fry, Paul Walter Hauser, John McCrea, Emily Beecham, Ziggy Gardner, Mark Strong, Kayvan Novak. Directed by Craig Gillespie. During the 1970s London punk rock revolution, young grifter Estella transforms herself into the raucous, revenge-bent Cruella de Vil. When Estella was twelve, she wore punked out black high top chucks with drawings and writing on them. See a photo gallery of some stills from this section of the film.

NR,

would be PG

Cupid’s Proxy. (2017) Jet Jurgensmeyer, Valerie Azlynn, Carolyn Dodd, Steve Byrne, Rex Linn, Jackée Harry. Directed by Jason Dallas. A precocious 12-year-old helps his neighbor write responses for her advice column for younger readers, but soon gets involved in problems of his own making.

PG-13

The Cure. (1995) Brad Renfro, Joseph Mazzello, Annabella Sciorra, Diana Scarwid, Bruce Davison. Directed by Peter Horton. A moving coming of age story about two lonely eleven-year old boys who develop an unlikely friendship. This is an unusual film about kids because its strong character development, minimalist style, and the riveting performances by Brad Renfro and Joseph Mazzello more than compensate for the somewhat improbable story line.

NR,

would be PG

The Current. (2014) B. Bradenton Harper, Jana K. Lensing, David Daniel Harper, Blade Yocum, Dariush Moslemi. Directed by Nikita Zubarev. When a family moves from Chicago to a campground in rural Minnesota teenager Jake hates living at the river-side campground until he meets Peter, a boy his age living across the river. The two quickly become best friends, spending the summer together, but soon tragedy strikes and religious messages take over the story.

NR,

would be PG

The Curse of the Un-Kissable Kid. (2013) William Leon, Joseph Haag, Christopher Bones, Liv Southard, Lee Meriwether, Drew Droege, Brady Matthews. Written and directed by Mark Marchillo. A bullied kid drinks a magical potion before reading the fine print.

Categories: Short, Comedy, Family.

PG-13

Cursed. (2005) Portia de Rossi, Mya, Shannon Elizabeth, Solar, Daniel Edward Mora, Kristina Anapau, Jesse Eisenberg, Milo Ventimiglia, Jonny Acker, Eric Ladin, Christina Ricci, Joshua Jackson. Directed by Wes Craven. A werewolf loose in Los Angeles changes the lives of three young adults, who, after being mauled by the beast, learn they must kill their attacker if they hope to change their fate.

NR

Czarny mlyn (The Black Mill). (2020) Iwo Wicinski, Pola Galica Galoch, Oliwia Ogorzelska, Borys Wicinski, Mateusz Winek, Magdalena Niec, Michal Lupa, Ireneusz Koziol. Directed by Mariusz Palej. Twelve-year-old Iwo lives in a small Polish town where there is an abandoned Black Mill from the communist era now said to be haunted. Breaking their promise to not approach the old mill — Iwo and his friends accidentally unleash its evil powers. From that moment nothing will ever be the same again as objects and adults start to disappear.

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