The Chuck Taylor in Films: H

PG

Habitat. (1997) Balthazar Getty, Tchéky Karyo, Alice Krige, Kenneth Welsh, Laura Harris, Brad Austin, Mathew Mackay, Christopher Heyerdahl, Kristen Holden-Ried. Written and directed by Rene Daalder. In a future world where Earth’s ozone layer has been completely destroyed, a brilliant but obsessed scientist, Hank Symes uses illegally obtained biological materials for an experiment that he hopes will save the world. In the course of his work, a terrible accident occurs, transforming him into a fantastic otherworldly lifeform and changing his house into a huge living entity which threatens all who enter.

PG

Hair. (1988) Treat Williams, John Savage, Beverly D’Angelo, Annie Golden, Dorsey Wright, Don Dacus, Cheryl Barnes. Directed by Milos Forman. This filmed version of the groundbreaking Broadway musical about the protest movement in the sixties is the story of Claude Bukowski, a farm boy from the country who comes to New York City to be inducted into the army. His adventures begin when he runs into a hippie “happening” in Central Park, falls in love with Sheila, a beautiful free-spirited girl, and is befriended by Berger, the hippies pacifist leader.

PG-13

HairBrained. (2013) Alex Wolff, Brendan Frazier, Julia Garner, Michael Oberholtzer, Greta Lee. Directed by Billy Kent. When 14-year old genius Eli Pettifog is rejected from Harvard, he ends up at third rate Whittman College. His roommate is 41-year-old freshman Leo Searly, a washed up gambler who enrolled at the college to escape the real world. But Leo and Eli become friends and Eli gets his revenge against the Ivy League colleges by going after them one by one in a Collegiate Mastermind tournament.

PG

Hairspray. (1988) Divine, Sonny Bono, Ruth Brown, Deborah Harry, Ricki Lake, Clayton Prince, Leslie Ann Howard, Pia Zadora, Jerry Stiller. Directed by John Waters. It’s 1962, and Tracy Turnblad has the biggest boufant on her block and all the right moves to be a star on Baltimore’s local dance show. But Tracy’s blue collar background, looks, and desire to include everyone doesn’t sit well with the all-white in crowd that has been controlling who appears on the show.

PG

R

Half Baked. (1998) Dave Chappelle, Guillermo Díaz, Jim Breuer, Harland Williams, Rachel True, Clarence Williams III, Laura Silverman, Tommy Chong. Directed by Tamra Davis. The story of three not so bright men who come up with a series of crazy schemes to get a friend out of jail.

PG-13

The Half of It. (2020) Leah Lewis, Daniel Diemer, Alexxis Lemire, Wolfgang Novogratz, Collin Chou, Becky Ann Baker. Written and directed by Alice Wu. When smart but cash-strapped teen Ellie Chu agrees to write a love letter for a jock, she doesn't expect to become his friend — or fall for his crush.

R

Halloween. (2007) Malcolm McDowell, Brad Dourif, Scout Taylor-Compton, Daeg Faerch, Tyler Mane, Clint Howard, Sheri Moon Zombie, Skyler Gisondo, Adam Weisman. Written and directed by Rob Zombie. This is a remake of the original John Carpenter Halloween film. The retelling of the slasher story includes a chilling new introduction that finally reveals the secrets behind Michael Myer’s disturbing childhood.

R

Halloween 4. (1988) Donald Pleasance, Ellie Cornell, Danielle Harris, Beau Starr, George P. Wilbur, Sasha Jenson. Directed by Dwight H. Little. Ten years after his original massacre, Michael Myers awakens and returns to Haddonfield to kill his seven-year-old niece on Halloween. Can Dr. Loomis stop him?

NR

Halloween Heroes. (2021) Brayden Lacer, Joseph Moreland, Richie Acevedo, James Dickey, Ella Kate Brown, Bobby Lacer, Kylynn Ellenburg, Ryleigh Elizabeth Jordan, Tyler May, Kaylee Kennedy. Written and directed by Jason Campbell. When a group of teens from Henderson Middle School become magically infused with the powers of their Halloween costumes, they band together to investigate several local spooky legends.

TV-14

Ham On Rye. (2019) Haley Bodell, Audrey Boos, Gabriella Herrera, David Croley Broyles, Adam Torres, Luke Darga, Sam Hernandez, Blake Borders, Cole Devine, Timothy Taylor, Gregory Faalatek. Written and directed by Tyler Taormina. A bizarre rite of passage at the local deli determines the fate of a generation of teenagers, leading some to escape their suburban town and dooming others to remain.

R

The Hamiltons. (2006) Cory Knauf, Samuel Child, Joseph McKelheer, Mackenzie Firgens, Rebekah Hoyle, Brittany Daniel, Al Liner, Jena Hunt, Tara Glass, Jenna Smith. Written and directed by the Butcher Brothers. The older brothers and sister of a seemingly ordinary family recovering from the death of their parents turns out to have a dark and deadly secret. Francis, the youngest member has a dilemma — will he reveal what’s going on or stay loyal to his brothers and sister.

R

The Happening. (2008) Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo, Ashlyn Sanchez, Betty Buckley, Spencer Breslin, Robert Bailey Jr. Written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Suddenly and inexplicably, the behavior of everyone in Central Park in New York City changes in a most bizarre and horrible way — they all become suicidal and kill themselves. As the strange behavior spreads throughout the city and beyond, science teacher Elliot, his wife, Alma, and Jess, the young daughter of a friend, flee the city to escape the weird force of nature.

R

Happy Birthday. (2016) Matt Bush, Riley Litman, Tristin Mays, Britne Oldford, Vanessa Lengies, Matthew Willig, Robert Miano, Steven Tyler. Written and directed by Casey Tebo. When two friends embark on a journey to Mexicali for a birthday celebration, things take a dark turn after they take drugs and find themselves kidnapped and held for ransom.

R

Happy Campers. (2001) Brad Renfro, Dominique Swain, Keram Malicki-Sánchez, Emily Bergl, Jordan Bridges, Justin Long, Jaime King, Peter Stormare. Written and directed by Daniel Waters. When the only adult camp counselor is struck by lightning, seven hormone-filled college counselors are left in charge of a summer camp full of high maintenance kids.

PG

Happy Gilmore. (1996) Adam Sandler, Christopher McDonald, Julie Bowen, Frances Bay Carl Weathers, Jared van Snellenberg, Allen Covert, Kevin Nealon. Directed by Dennis Duggan. Happy Gilmore, a failed hockey player discovers that his hockey slap shot transfers to a 400 yard tee shot on the golf course. When his grandmother loses her house to the IRS, Happy decides to earn the house back by competing on the professional golf circuit.

NR

Happy Log. (2016) Caleb Meadows, Brock Patrick Kaufman, Jim Tabor, Brian Matney, Billy DeVille, Ladson Deyne, BreAnn DuCote, Bowie Hamilton, Valora McCrea. Written and directed by Gary R. Thiesman. In 1959, two 12-year-old best friends from Mississippi Bayou country go on their on their first overnight fishing trip out in the wild on the Wolf River. The boys get into trouble when a mob hitman out to collect unpaid gambling debts and his prisoner he is threatening to kill, a local man known to the boys, stumble into their campsite.

PG

Harriet The Spy: Blog Wars. (2010) Jennifer Stone, Kristen Booth, Wesley Morgan, Doug Murray, Shauna MacDonald, Jason Bucker, Jayne Eastwood. Directed by Ron Oliver. Aspiring writer Harriet Welsch is determined to become class blogger. But her nemesis Marion Hawthorne is competing against her. When her movie producer father signs teenaged heartthrob Skander Hill to star in a film, Harriet now has access to the perfect subject for her blog. But things don’t work out the way Harriet expects.

PG-13

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. (2009) Daniel Radcliff, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Jim Broadbent, Geraldine Somerville, Bonnie Wright, Julie Walters Brandon Gleason, Gary Oldman, Maggie Smith, Robbie Coltrane, Michael Gambon. Directed by David Yates. As Harry Potter begins his 6th year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, he discovers an old book marked mysteriously “This book is the property of the Half-Blood Prince” and begins to learn more about Lord Voldemort’s dark past.

PG-13

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. (2007) Daniel Radcliff, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Imelda Staunton, Evanna Lynch, Ralph Fiennes, Brandon Gleason, Gary Oldman, Maggie Smith, Robbie Coltrane, Michael Gambon. Directed by David Yates. With their warning about Lord Voldemort’s return scoffed at, Harry and Dumbledore are targeted by the Wizard authorities as an authoritarian bureaucrat slowly seizes power at Hogwarts.

R

A Haunted House 2. (2014) Marlon Wayans, Jaime Pressly, Cedric the Entertainer, Essence Atkins, Gabriel Iglesias, Missi Pyle, Ashley Rickards, Affion Crockett. Directed by Michael Tiddes. Having exorcised the demons of his ex, Malcolm is starting fresh with his new girlfriend and her two children. After moving into their dream home, however, Malcolm is once again plagued by bizarre paranormal events.

PG-13

The Haunting in Connecticut. (2009) Kyle Gallner, Virginia Madsen, Martin Donovan, Amanda Crew, Elias Koteas. Directed by Peter Cornwell. After a family is forced to relocate for their son’s health, they begin experiencing supernatural behavior in their new home, which turns out to be a former mortuary and the site of unspeakable crimes.

PG-13

The Haunting of Seacliff Inn. (1994) Ally Sheedy, William R. Moses, Lucinda Weist, Tom McCleister, Shannon Cochran, Louise Fletcher. Directed by Walter Klenhard. Susan and Mark Enright buy an old Victorian home on the northern California coast and plan to open a bed and breakfast while mending their troubled marriage. But things go awry when Susan starts seeing apparitions in the house luring her to the brink of madness.

R

Heart of the Beholder. (2005) Barbara Allyne-Bennet, Carrie Armstrong, Conrad Bachmann, Priscilla Barnes, April Barnett, Roseanne Benjamin, Sarah Brown, Katelin Chesna Henke, Samantha Coker, Stella Croxon, Chloe Moretz. Written and directed by Ken Tipton. A St. Louis family is prosecuted for refusing to remove Martin Scorsese’s controversial film, The Last Temptation of Christ, from their videocassette rental stores.

PG-13

Hearts in Atlantis. (2001) Anthony Hopkins, Anton Yelchin, Hope Davis, Mika Boorem, David Morse, Alan Tudyk, Tom Bower, Celia Weston, Adam LeFevre, Will Rothhaar, Timothy Reifsnyder. Directed by Scott Hicks. Bobby Garfield, an aging man reflects on his life at age 11 in a summer that changed his life and that of his two best friends, Carol and Sully. Into their lives comes a mysterious new boarder with psychic powers, who befriends Bobby but generates distrust from his mother.

PG

Heaven Sent. (1994) David Bowe, Wilford Brimley, Vincent Kartheiser, Geoffrey Lower, Mary Beth McDonough. Directed by Craig Clyde. Eddie Chandler is a young kid who has been hanging out with the wrong crowd against the wishes of his single mom His life goes under dramatic change when he commits a petty crime and is seriously injured by a car while fleeing the scene. Mistakenly brought to heaven by a novice angel, he gets a second chance to turn his life around when he is returned to earth under the guidance of the angel. But his real test comes when his mom suddenly faces grave danger.

PG-13

The Heavenly Kid. (1985) Jason Gedrick, Lewis Smith, Jane Kaczmarek, Richard Mulligan. Directed by Carey Medoway. Nerdish bullied Lenny Barnes gets divine intervention to educate him in the ways of love from an angel who needs to earn his way into heaven.

R

Hell High. (1986) Jason Brill, Christopher Cousins, Maureen Mooney, Millie Prezioso, Karen Russell, Christopher Stryker. Directed by Douglas Grossman. A group of four “misfit” teenagers decide to harass a new teacher at their school, but things go a wrong and they accidentally kill her. Only she isn’t really dead but has turned into a murderous zombie who goes after the misfits, one by one.

R

Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II. (1987) Michael Ironside, Wendy Lyon, Justin Louis, Lisa Schrage, Richard Monette, Terri Hawkes, Brock Simpson, Judy Mahbey, Wendell Smith. Directed by Bill Pittman. Twenty years after being accidentally burned to death at her prom, the evil spirit of Mary Lou Maloney possesses a young girl in order to get revenge and be prom queen regardless of who stands in her way.

R

Hellphone. (2007) Jean-Baptiste Maunier, Jennifer Decker, Benjamin Jungers, Vladimir Consigny, Edouard Collin, Baptiste Caillaud, Anaïs Demoustier, Judith Chemla, Quentin Grosset, Géraldine Martineau, Donna Baltron. Written and directed by James Muth. Sid and Pierre, a teenager and his best friend living in Paris who are viewed as losers by others, find their lives are radically changed when Sid acquires a cellphone which he discovers has special powers to influence events and attract the pretty high school girl he is in love with.

R

Hide and Go Shriek. (1988) Brittain Frye, Donna Baltron, George Thomas, Ria Pavia, Rebunkah Jones, Annette Sinclair. Directed by Skip Schoolnik. Eight teenagers sneak into a furniture warehouse for an all night graduation party. A game of hide-and-seek turns into a grisly nightmare as a murderous night watchman starts to pick off the members of the group.

G

High School Musical 3: Senior Year. (2008) Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Corbin Bleu, Monique Coleman, Olesya Rulin, Chris Warren Jr, Ryne Sanborn, KayCee Stroh, Bart Johnson. Directed by Kenny Ortega. As seniors in high school, Troy and Gabriella struggle with the idea of being separated from one another as college approaches. Along with the rest of the Wildcats, they stage a spring musical to address their experiences, hopes and fears about their future.

NR,

would be PG

High School U.S.A. (1983) Michael J. Fox, Anthony Edwards, Nancy McKeon, Todd Bridges, Lauri Hendler, Dana Plato, Bob Denver, Tony Dow, Angela Cartwright, Dwayne Hickman, Tom Villard, Michael Zorek, Crystal Bernard and Crispin Glover. Directed by Rod Amateau. The “haves”, led by preppy jock aristocrat Beau Middleton, and the “have nots”, led by class clown Jay Jay Manners, go at each other with a series of pranks designed to turn the head of the school’s beautiful prom queen in this comedy about the social structure at a midwestern high school.

R

Hijacking Hollywood. (1997) Henry Thomas, Scott Thompson, Mark Metcalf, Neil Mundt, Nicole Gann, Helen Duffy, Paul Hewitt, Art LeFleur. Directed by Neil Mundt. A newly-hired production assistant for the upcoming blockbuster Moby Dick 2 puts up with daily abuse from the psychotic producer and his equally crazy production coordinator as he learns about the business from the ground up. Things change when his roommate devises a scheme to steal the reels of the film’s super expensive special effects scenes and hold them for ransom.

NR

The History of Love. (2016) Sophie Nélisse, Gemma Arterton, Derek Jacobi, Elliott Gould, Torri Higginson, Jamie Bloch, Alex Ozerov-Meyer, Mark Rendall, Masa Lizdek, Julian Bailey, Scott Eliasoph, William Ainscough. Written and directed by Radu Mihaileanu. The story of a long-lost book that mysteriously reappears and connects an old man searching for his son with a girl seeking a cure for her mother's loneliness.

R

A History of Violence. (2005) Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, Ed Harris, Ashton Holmes, William Hurt, Peter MacNeill, Heidi Hayes. Directed by David Cronenberg. A small town family is thrust into the spotlight after Tom Stahl, the father, is declared a hero in the media after taking out two thugs trying to rob and kill the employees at his diner. Later when some mobsters from Philadelphia appear at the diner and say they know Tom under another name, his family and the sheriff begin to wonder if Tom is really who he says he is.

R

The Hitman. (1991) Chuck Norris, Michael Parks, Al Waxman, Alberta Watson, Salim Grant, Ken Pogue. Directed by Aaron Norris. Cliff Garret, a good cop betrayed and left for dead by his crooked partner, manages to survive and vows to get revenge at any cost. He does so by going undercover as a ruthless hitman, infiltrating the mob underworld to pursue his ex-partner and those who hired him.

PG-13

Home Invasion. (2016) Jason Patric, Natasha Henstridge, Liam Dickinson, Scott Adkins, Kyra Zagorsky. Directed by David Tenant. When a wealthy woman and her stepson are targeted by a trio of expert thieves in their remote mansion, her only form of help comes from a call with a security systems specialist.

PG

A Home of Our Own. (1993) Kathy Bates, Edward Furlong, Clarissa Lassig, Sarah Schaub, Miles Feulner, Amy Sakasitz, T. J. Lowther, Soon-Tek Oh. Directed by Tony Bill. Feisty and independent Frances Lacey is determined to turn bad times into good. Abandoned by her husband, fed up with her supervisor’s harassment, worried about her oldest son’s increasing delinquency, and tired of Los Angeles, she packs her six kids into a rundown car and heads east to a small town in Idaho. Finding a partially built but now abandoned farm house, she persuades the owner to let her stay and renovate the place in exchange for work as she pursues the difficult task of raising her kids and going after the American dream on a shoestring.

PG

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. (1989) Rick Moranis, Robert Oliveri, Matt Frewer, Marcia Strassman, Kristine Sutherland, Thomas Wilson Brown, Jared Rushton, Amy O’Neill. Directed by Joe Johnston. A preoccupied inventor accidentally shrinks his kids down to 1/4-inch tall and tosses them out in the trash. Now the kids face incredible dangers as they try to make their way home through the jungle of their own backyard!.

PG

Hoosiers. (1986) Gene Hackman, Dennis Hopper, Barbara Hershey, Brad Doyle, Steve Hollar, Brad Long, David Neidorf, Kent Poole, Wade Schenck, Scott Summers, Maris Valainis. Directed by David Anspaugh. This classic story of a small town basketball team that comes from nowhere to the state finals is considered by some critics to be the best sports film ever made. This film is worth a look just to return to the days when teams were defined by their black or white Chuck Taylor high tops.

R

Horrible Bosses. (2011) Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell, Kevin Spacey, Jamie Foxx. Directed by Seth Gordon. Three friends conspire to murder their awful bosses when they realize they are standing in the way of their happiness.

R

The Horror Show. (1989) Lance Henriksen, Brion James, Rita Taggart, Dedee Pfeiffer, Aron Eisenberg, Thom Bray. Directed by James Isaac. A serial killer is placed in an electric chair for execution, but instead of dying he becomes a supernatural evil force. His first goal, get revenge on the cop who put him there.

R

Hostage. (2005) Bruce Willis, Kevin Pollak, Jimmy Bennett, Michelle Horn, Ben Foster, Jonathan Tucker, Marshall Allman, Serena Scott Thomas, Rumer Willis. Directed by Florent Siri. Jeff Talley, a failed police hostage negotiator now a police chief in a small California town, must save the lives of a local family held hostage. But the situation turns out to be more complex than it initially seems, and the chief’s family also are taken hostage, forcing Talley to use every skill and trick that he knows to try and save them.

PG

Hotel for Dogs. (2009) Emma Roberts, Jake T. Austin, Don Cheadle, Johnny Simmons, Kyla Pratt, Troy Gentile, Lisa Kudrow, Kevin Dillon. Directed by Thor Freudenthal. Two orphaned foster kids not allowed to keep their pet dog secretly take in stray dogs at a vacant hotel.

PG

House Arrest. (1996) Kyle Howard, Russel Harper, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Pollak, Amy Sakasitz, Wallace Shaun, Jennifer Love Hewitt. Directed by Harry Winer. High schooler Grover Beindorf and his younger sister Stacy, desperate to keep their parents from getting a divorce, hold them prisoner in the basement in order to force them to reconcile. When the neighborhood kids hear about it, they think it’s a great idea, and soon the Beindorf basement is filled with parents.

PG-13

House II: The Second Story. (1987) Arye Gross, Jonathan Stark, Royal Dano, Bill Maher, John Ratzenberger, Lar Park-Lincoln, Amy Yasbeck. Written and directed by Ethan Wiley. Jesse and his girlfriend inherit a mysterious family mansion and soon discover that his 170-year-old great great grandfather has been brought back from the dead by the supernatural powers of an ancient Aztec skull.

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