The Chuck Taylor in Films: E

PG

Earth To Echo. (2014) Teo Halm, Brain Astro Bradley, Reese Hartwig, Ella Wahlestadt, Jason Gray-Stanford. Directed by Dave Green. After receiving a bizarre series of encrypted messages, a group of kids embark on an adventure with an alien who needs their help.

PG

Ed. (1996) Matt LeBlanc, Gene Ross, Paul Hewitt, Sage Allen, Stan Ivar, Jack Warden, James Caviezel, Carl Anthony Payne II, Mike McGlone, Doren Fein. Directed by Bill Couturie. A hayseed pitcher and a monkey third baseman play for a struggling minor league team.

R

Ed’s Next Move. (1996) Matt Ross, Kevin Carroll, Callie Thorne. Written and directed by John Walsh. When he is dumped by his girl friend, Ed, a guy from a small town in Wisconsin, decides to go to New York City where he ends up living in a East Village neighborhood. Besides adjusting to the Big Apple, his greatest challenge is how to make the “next move” with Lee, a struggling musician who has captured his heart.

PG-13

EDtv. (1999) Matthew McConaughey, Jenna Elfman, Rob Reiner, Ellen Degeneres, Woody Harrelson, Sally Kirkland, Martin Landau, Dennis Hopper, Elizabeth Hurley, Clint Howard. Directed by Ron Howard. An average guy working in a video store suddenly becomes a national celebrity when he wins a contest and a cable company begins broadcasting his life to the world 24 hours a day, affecting his relationships with family and friends. A great ensemble cast makes this bittersweet comedy work.

R

The Education of Charlie Banks. (2007) Jesse Eisenberg, Jason Ritter, Chris Marquette, Eva Amurri Martino, Sebastian Stan, Gloria Votsis, Steven Hinkle, Cain Kerner. Directed by Fred Durst. College student Charlie Banks has to face old problems when the bully he had an unpleasant encounter with back in high school shows up on his campus.

PG

18 Again! (1988) George Burns, Charlie Schlatter, Tony Roberts, Miriam Flynn, Red Buttons, Anitha Morris, Pauly Shore, Jennifer Runyon. Directed by Paul Flaherty. After a car accident, the souls of young David Watson and his swinging grandfather get swapped. While the grandfather’s body is in a coma, his soul in David’s body starts enjoying life as an eighteen year old again, and sets out to improve David’s life while discovering the reality of what others really think about him.

NR,

would be R

Th Empty Iris. (2017) Beto Ochoa, Slim Dizefalo, Acosta Fabrizio, Aubree Gambs, Romario Lopez, Casemi Simmon, Ronaldo Lopez, Kenn Pride, Adam Madruga, Jordan Brownlee. Written and directed by Jonny Santana. Adam Homer, a blind teenager, and his troubled best friend Donnie Hammurabi deal with a tragic event following a house party where Adam is viciously attacked by supposed friends without any provocation, tied up with duct tape, and severely beaten for their personal entertainment. Later, as he starts to recover, Adam begins to chase a vision he has of a better world, while Donnie deals with deep-rooted guilt for his inaction at the time and plans a revenge scheme for what was done to Adam.

PG

Encino Man. (1992) Sean Astin, Brendan Frasier, Pauly Shore, Megan Ward, Robin Tunney, Michael DeLuise, Ellen Blain, Mariette Hartley, Richard Masur. Directed by Les Mayfield. Two Los Angeles high school losers dig up a frozen caveman in their backyard and when he thaws out they figure he is their ticket to being part of the “in” crowd at school. But the caveman turns out to be wilder and crazier than they ever imagined in this satire about the stone age meeting generation X.

R

PG

Ernest Goes To Camp. (1987) Jim Varney, Victoria Racimo, John Vernon, Patrick Day, Scott Menville, Jacob Vargas, Danny Capri, Hakeem Abdul-Samad, Todd Lloyd. Directed by John R Cherry III. Ernest, the handyman at Kamp Kikakee, achieves his greatest ambition and becomes a camp counselor. Just one problem — his campers are a group of juvenile delinquents from the Midstate Boys Detention Center.

PG

Ernest Scared Stupid. (1991) Jim Varney, Eartha Kitt, Austin Nagler, Shay Astar, Alec Klapper, Richard Woolf, Nick Victory. Directed by John R Cherry III. Ernest accidentally unleashes an evil troll from its tomb who goes on a rampage against the small town and its children.

PG

Escape 2120. (2020) Edward Pritchard, Samantha Ipema, Roe Pacheco, Paul Kandarian, David Afflick, Ulisses Gonsalves. Written and directed by Brian K. Bennett. After agreeing to help an elderly couple of scientists with their time travel experiment, an orphan teen later follows them to the future in suspended animation. He meets a girl who he develops feeling for when he arrives at a natural utopia, but later he must evade a lynch mob convinced that he’s the prophesied Devil’s Child.

PG-13

Escape Room. (2019) Logan Miller, Taylor Russell, Jay Ellis, Tyler Labine, Deborah Ann Woll, Nik Dodani, Yorick van Wageningen. Directed by Adam Robitel. Six strangers find themselves in a maze of deadly mystery rooms and must use their wits to survive.

PG

Un éte sans point ni coup sûr (A No-Hit No-Run Summer). (2008) Patrice Robitaille, Pier-Luc Funk, Jacinthe Laguë, Roy Dupuis, Peter Batakliev, Frédérique Dufort, Phillip Jarrett, Guy-Daniel Tremblay, Guy Thauvette, Victor Desjardins. Directed by Francis Leclerc. Martin is twelve years old and dreams of making the neighborhood baseball team in his Canadian town. When he gets cut, his father steps in and together they spend a summer full of hope and disappointment, line drives and foul balls. In French.

R

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. (2004) Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Elijah Wood, Thomas Jay Ryan, Jane Adams, Tom Wilkinson, Ryan Whitney. Directed by Michael Gondry. An offbeat couple undergo a procedure to erase each other from their memories when their relationship turns sour. This very creative screenplay won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay in 2005.

R

Everybody Wants Some!! (2016) Blake Jenner, Juston Street, Ryan Guzman, Glen Powell, Tyler Hoechlin, Wyatt Russell. Written and directed by Richard Linklater. A group of college baseball players navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood.

PG

Explorers. (1985) River Phoenix, Ethan Hawke, Jason Presson, Amanda Peterson, Dick Miller. Directed by Joe Dante. Three boys make an amazing discovery about interplanetary travel in their basement lab, using it to build a spaceship and launch themselves on a journey to outer space.

R

Extraction II. (2023) Chris Hemsworth, Golshifteh Farahani, Adam Bessa, Andro Japaidze, Tornike Gogrichiani, Demetre Kavelashvili, Tornike Bziava. Directed by Sam Hargrave. After barely surviving his grievous wounds from his mission in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tyler Rake is back, and his team is ready to take on their next mission.

R

Extreme Movie. (2007) Ryan Pinkston, Michael Cera, Brian Burt, Rob Pinkston, Rich Ceraulo, Matthew Lillard, Jamie Kennedy, Frankie Muniz, Vanessa Lee Chester, Andy Milonakis, Dennis Cockrum, Byron Cotton, Nicholas D’Agosto. Written and directed by Adam Jay Epstein and Andrew Jacobson. A series of vignettes about teenagers coming of age in embarrasing ways.