The Chuck Taylor in Films: R

PG-13

Radio Flyer. (1992) Tom Hanks, Lorraine Bracco, Adam Baldwin, Elijah Wood, Joseph Mazzello, John Heard, Ben Johnson. Directed by Richard Donner. Two young boys retreat from an abusive step father and neighborhood bullies by living in a fantasy world where they dream of flying. Inspired by a local legend, they begin to transform their red wagon into a flying machine that they plan to use to make their escape.

R

Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins. (1975) Alan Arkin, Sally Kellerman, MacKenzie Phillips, Harry Dean Stanton, Alex Rocco. Directed by Dick Richards. A road picture about Gunny Rafferty, a man going nowhere in his life, who is forced at gunpoint to drive a tough-talking teen and a would-be country singer to New Orleans.

R

The Raid 2. (2014) Iko Uwais, Arifin Putra, Tio Pakusadewo, Oka Antara, Alex Abbad. Written and directed by Gareth Evans. Only a short time after the first raid, Rama goes undercover with the thugs of Jakarta to bring down the syndicate and uncover the corruption within his police force.

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R

Rain Man. (1988) Tom Cruise, Dustin Hoffman, Valeria Golino. Directed by Barry Levinson. This Oscar winning film is the story of two brothers, Charlie, a self-centered hustler, and Raymond, an autistic savant, whom Charlie didn’t know even existed. When Charlie is cut out of the family inheritance, he takes Raymond out of the institution where he is staying in a desperate effort to extort his “fair share” of the family estate. As the two travel across the country, they begin to connect as brothers and their trip becomes a journey of self-revelation.

PG

The Rainbow Tribe. (2008) David James Elliott, Grayson Russell, Noah Munck, Max Burkholder, Stephen Tobowsky. Directed by Christopher Watson. A rag-tag group of children at a sleep away camp help their counselor overcome a personal crisis.

PG-13

Rattled. (1996) William Katt, Shanna Reed, Michael Galeota, Monica Creed, Ian Ambercrombie, Zack Eginton, Clint Howard. Directed by Tony Randel. When a construction project indiscriminately blows up the mountainous area around Eden Valley, it upsets the rattlesnake population, and soon they descend on the town.

(2.5 chucks for the film, plus an extra half chuck for the great chucks photography.)

R

Ready or Not. (2019) Samara Weaving, Adam Brody, Mark O’Brien, Henry Czerny, Andie MacDowell, Melanie Scrofano. Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett. On her wedding night, a young bride is forced to play a game of Hide and Seek as she joins her new husband’s rich, eccentric family, a time-honored tradition that turns into a lethal game with everyone fighting for their survival.

PG-13

Ready Player One. (2018) Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Lena Waithe, T.J. Miller, Simon Pegg, Hannah John-Kamen, Mark Rylance, Philip Zhao, Win Morisaki. Directed by Steven Spielberg. When the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases a video in which he challenges all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune.

R

Rebound. (1996) Don Cheadle, James Earl Jones, Clarence Williams III, Eriq LaSalle, Forest Whitaker. Directed by Eriq LaSalle. This HBO film is the story of Earl “The Goat” Manigault, a legendary Harlem basketball player who had all the moves that set the style for the modern game, but never made it into the professional league because of his personal problems.

PG

Red Dog: True Blue. (2016) Levi Miller, Jason Isaacs, Bryan Brown, Hanna Mangan Lawrence, Thomas Cocquerel, John Jarratt, Justine Clarke, Zen McGrath, Winta McGrath. Directed by Kriv Stenders. Told in flashback by the now grown up father to his son, Red Dog: True Blue is the story of an 11-year-old boy who is shipped off to his grandfather’s ranch in the Australian outback, where he finds adventure and friendship with a scrappy one-of-a-kind dog that would change his life forever,

PG

The Red Sneakers. (2002) Dempsey Pappion, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Vincent D’Onofrio, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Gregory Hines, Jordan Walker, Makyla Smith. Directed by Gregory Hines. When a high school student with below average athletic skills is given a pair of red high top chucks that once belonged to a basketball great, they magically give him the ability to single-handedly win games and lead his team to the city championship game.

NR,

would be PG

Reel Monsters. (2022) Dawson Hilfiger, Nicholas Olson, Sophie Guss, Lucien Limberg, Grace Hines, Hannah Guss, James Kelly, Matt Bruzzio. Directed by Mark Polonia. When the father of one of the teenagers (Cory) in a high school film club goes missing, he and his three friends begin to search for him. While looking for clues, Cory stumbles upon a reel of Super 8 film his father shot that shows Sasquatch. Could Big Foot actually be living in the woods near their town? And how does this affect the disappearance of Cory’s dad and the suspicious behavior of some other locals in their town.

NR,

would be PG-13

Regret! aka Spijt!. (2013) Stefan Collier, Charlotte Bakker, Dorus Witte, Robin Boissevain. Directed by Dave Schram. Based on a book by Carry Slee, this film is a powerful depiction of the effects of bullying. Overweight high school student Jochem spends his school days desperately trying to escape a trio of bullies. While his classmates realize what’s going on, nobody really stands up for Jochem, and their home room teacher ignores the signs. Eventually, two classmates do begin to stand up for Jochem, but not before a tragic ending. (In Dutch with English subtitles)

PG

Remote. (1993) Chris Carrara, Jordan Belfi, Jessica Bowman, Kenneth A. Brown, Bobbie Chandler, John Diehl, Stuart Fratkin. Directed by Ted Nicolaou. A 13-year-old boy, obsessed with remote controlled toys, puts them to use when he’s trapped in a vacant model suburban house with three dumb crooks.

PG

The Rescue. (1988) Edward Albert, Ian Giatti, Marc Price, Ellen Barber, Timothy Carhart, James Cromwell, Kevin Dillon. Directed by Ferdinand Fairfax. When several special forces members are captured by the North Koreans, and the plan to rescue them is abandoned by the government, their children, who are living at the American base in South Korea, conspire together to rescue their fathers.

NR

The Return. (2020) Richard Harmon, Echo Andersson, Sara Thompson, Marina Stephenson Kerr, Erik Athavale, Gwendolyn Collins, Zoe Fish. Written and directed by BJ Verot. After the death of his father, a brilliant college student returns to his family home where he learns that the horrors from his childhood aren’t as dead and gone as he once thought.

R

Revenge of the Nerds. (1984) Robert Carradine, Anthony Edwards, Curtis Armstrong, Julie Montgomery, Timothy Busfield, Andrew Casses, Curtis Armstrong, Larry B. Scott, Brian Tochi, Michelle Meyrink, Ted McGinley, Matt Salinger, Donald Gibb, James Cromwell, David Wohl, John Goodman, and Bernie Casey. Directed by Jeff Kanew. A group of college misfits decide to start their own fraternity after being rejected by every house on campus. But the other fraternities don’t like this, and the football team jocks try to run the nerds off campus.

PG

Richie Rich. (1994) Macaulay Culkin, John Larroquette, Edward Herrman, Jonathan Hyde, Christine Ebersole, Stephi Lineberg. Directed by Donald Petrie. The richest kid in the world, Richie Rich, has everything he could want in the world except friends, until he works to win over some sandlot kids he sees playing baseball. He’ll need their help when a scheming family advisor plots to dispose of Richie’s parents and take over the family fortune.

PG

The Right Stuff. (1983) Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Sam Shepard, Fred Ward, Barbara Hershey, Charles Frank. Directed by Philip Kaufman. This film adaption of Tom Wolfe’s classic story of the Mercury astronauts shows how they and their families faced the unknown dangers of early rocket flight along with the overwhelming pressures of becoming instant celebrities.

PG-13

Rim of the World. (2019) Jack Gore, Miya Cech, Benjamin Flores Jr., Alessio Scalzotto. Directed by McG. Four misfit teenagers join forces to save the world when an alien invasion interrupts their summer camp.

R

Ripe. (1996) Daisy Eagan, Monica Keene, Gordon Currie, Ron Brice, Karen Lynn Gorney, Vincent Laresca. Directed by Mo Ogrodnik. When their abusive parents are killed in a car crash, 15-year-old twin sisters Rosie and Violet vow to run away to Kentucky in search of a better life. While on the road, the girls meet up with Pete, a drifter working as a grounds keeper on a derelict army base, who takes them in. While Violet falls for him, Rosie represses her feelings and becomes increasingly angry and hostile.

R

Rivals. (1972) Joan Hackett, Robert Klein, Scott Jacoby, Jeanne Tanzy Williams, Glen Hayes, Phoebe Dorin, James Karen, Randy Digeronimo. Written and directed by Krishna Shah. Peter runs a New York bus tour. Christine is a recently widowed art gallery owner, and she falls in love with him. But, her 10-year-old son Jamie loves her way too much and has an unhealthy and pathological attachment to her.

PG-13

The River. (1984) Mel Gibson, Sissy Spacek, Shane Bailey, Scott Glen. Directed by Mark Rydell. Tom and Mae are a young couple struggles to maintain a homestead in rural Pennsylvania. They struggle against the ravages of nature, the threat of poverty, the animosity of many in the community when Tom works as a replacement worker during a strike, and the Mae’s former boy friend who is charge of the local power company’s attempt to take over their property.

R

River’s Edge. (1986) Keanu Reeves*, Crispin Glover, Joshua John Miller, Ione Skye, Dennis Hopper, Daniel Roebuck, Roxana Zal, Phil Brock. Written and directed by Abbe Wool. When a high school student brutally murders a girl friend, he brags about it to his slacker friends, who disbelieve him at first, but when he takes them to the crime scene, discover that he wasn’t lying. Strangely, the teens, who all knew the girl, decide to protect their friend with a wall of secrecy, until one of them can’t live with the guilt anymore.
(*canvas high top Dr. J’s)

The Road. (2009) Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Rober Duvall, Charlize Theron. Directed by John Hillcoat. A father and son cross a barren post-apolyptic America trying to survive on their wits and love for each other.

R

The Road Within. (2014) Robert Sheehan, Dev Patel, Zoë Kravitz, Robert Patrick, Kyra Sedgwick. Written and directed by Gren Wells. Vincent, a young man with Tourette Syndrome, is placed in a behavioral facility after his mother dies, but embarks on a life changing trip to the Pacific Ocean with two other problematic inmates in order to scatter her ashes.

R

Road Kill USA. (1993) Andrew Porter, Sean Bridgers, Deanna Perry. Written and directed by Tony Elwood. A hitchhiking college student accepts a ride from a couple who turn out to be psychotic killers.

R

Roadside Prophets. (1992) John Doe, David Anthony Marshall, Judyth Thurman, Sonya Chavez. Written and directed by Abbe Wool. Joe Mosely is a laid-back, working-class biker who temporarily abandons his responsibilities and takes a few days off to travel to El Dorado, Nevada so that he can fulfill the last request of a dead friend who wants his ashes scattered there. On the way, he runs into Sam, a frenetic younger biker who pesters Joe into becoming his road partner, and together they ride through Nevada, running into various eccentrics, staying at cheap motels, and trying to find El Dorado (which is really a town called Jackpot).

PG

The Robin Hood Gang. (aka Angels in the Attic) (1998) Clayton Taylor, Steven Losak, Dalin Christiansen, Brenda Price, Scott Christopher. Directed by Eric Hendershot. When two young kids find a suitcase full of cash in the attic of their apartment building, they plan to use it to help out their needy neighbors. One problem however: the money belongs to a bank robber who wants it back.

PG-13

Robocop 3. (1993) Robert John Burke, Mario Machado, Remy Ryan, Jodi Long, John Posey, Rip Torn, Jill Hennesey, Mako, John Castle, S.D. Nemeth. Directed by Fred Dekker. When the ruthless corporation that runs Motor City begins kicking families out of their homes to clear space for a profitable new real estate project, Robocop joins forces with a young orphan and a renegade band of freedom fighters to save them.

G

PG

PG-13

PG

Rock ’n’ Roll High School. (1979) P.J. Soles, Vincent Van Patten, Clint Howard, Dey Young, Mary Woronov, The Ramones. Directed by Alan Arkush. Vince Lombardi High School has a reputation as a party school. When a new principal is brought in to change things, the students battle back with the help of The Ramones.

NR,

would be PG-13

Rockaway, aka Life Now, Life Then. (2017) Keidrich Sellati, Maxwell Apple, James DiGiacomo, Tanner Flood, Colin Critchley, Harrison Wittmeyer, Marjan Neshat, Wass Stevens, Frankie J. Alvarez. Written and directed by John J. Budion. Inspired by true events, a man recounts the summer of 1994, when he and his protective older brother enjoyed life as New York Knicks fans, playing sports with their friends, but also plotted revenge against their abusive father. Click here to see stills from the films.

PG-13

The Rocker. (2008) Rainn Wilson, Christina Applegate, Teddy Geiger, Josh Gad, Emma Stone, Jeff Garlin, Jane Lynch, Jason Sudeikis, Will Arnett. Directed by Peter Cattaneo. The drummer of an up and coming rock band in the 80’s, who was dumped by the band just before they became successful gets a second chance when his nephew needs a drummer for his band twenty years later.

PG

Rocky. (1976) Sylvester Stallone, Burgess Meredith, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers. Directed by John G. Avildsen. Sylvester Stalone’s first boxing film stands up over time as one of the best sports films ever made. The training sequence where Rocky runs up the steps to the top of Philadelphia’s Art Museum square to the pulsating Rocky theme is a classic film moment.

PG

Rocky Balboa. (2006) Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Tarver, Burt Young. Written and directed by Sylvester Stalone. Rocky Balboa comes out of retirement to step into the ring for the last time and face the heavyweight champ Mason ’The Line’ Dixon.

NR,

would be PG

The Rodriguez and the Beyond (aka Los Rodríguez y el más allá). (2019). Edu Soto, Mariana Treviño, Rodrigo Simón, Sara Jiménez, María Blanco, Geraldine Chaplin, Plácido Domingo, Lucas Laso, Antonio Velázquez, Macarena Gómez, Enrique Villén, Rossy de Palma, Tomás Pozzi, Omar Chaparro, Santiago Segura. Written and directed by Paco Arango. In Madrid, Spain, the lives of the Rodriguez family are radically changed when their son Nicolás views a videotape left to him by his grandfather that causes him to open a intergalactic portal to another world named Maktub and the family members all gain super powers. In Spanish.

PG

Rookie of the Year. (1993) Thomas Ian Nicholas, Gary Busey, Albert Hall, Amy Morton, John Candy, Patrick LaBrecque. Directed by Daniel Stern. When the cast is removed from clumsy Little Leaguer Henry Rowengartner’s broken arm, he is shocked to find that he has the skills of a professional pitcher. The word gets out, and soon Henry is signed by the Chicago Cubs as their new ace pitcher.

R

Roma. (2018) Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Carlos Peralta, Diego Cortina Autrey, Marco Graf, Daniela Demesa, Nancy García, Verónica García, Andy Cortés, Fernando Grediaga, Jorge Antonio Guerrero. Written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón. Shot in black and white, Cuarón’s masterful depiction of the lives of a middle class family living in Mexico City as seen through their nanny and housekeeper, Cleo, is set during the political turmoil of 1962. There are two intertwining stories, Cleo’s pregnancy at the hands of her boyfriend who totally rejects her when he finds out, and how Sofia and her four young children cope with life after her husband Antonio abandons the family and goes off to live with his mistress.

NR,

would be PG

Rounding First. (2005) John Michael Bolger, Michael Dean, Matthew Borish. Written and directed by Jim Fleigner. Routine coming of age film about three friends growing up in the eighties, and how the relevation of a dark family secret affects them.

PG-13

A Rumor of Angels. (2002) Vanessa Redgrave, Trevor Morgan, Ray Liotta, Catherine McCormack, Ron Livingstone, George Coe. Directed by Peter O’Fallon. A twelve year old boy, still devasted by the loss of his mother two years earlier, endures a lonely summer on Cape Cod until he meets up and forms an unlikely friendship with Maddy, an reclusive old lady who lives by the lighthouse.

R

Run Lola Run. (1998) Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Armin Rohde, Joachim Krol. Directed by Tom Tykwer. Time is running out for Lola in this surrealistic thriller. She’s just received a frantic call from her boy friend, Manni, who has lost a small fortune belonging to his mobster boss. If Lola doesn’t replace the money in twenty minutes, Manni will surely suffer severe consequences.

PG-13

PG-13

Running on Empty. (1988) Christine Lahti, River Phoenix, Judd Hirsch, Jonas Abry, Martha Plimpton, Ed Crowley, L.M. Kit Carson, Steven Hill. Directed by Sidney Lumet. Powerful performances by Christine Lahti, River Phoenix, Judd Hirsch, Martha Plimpton, and Steven Hill highlight the story of the Pope family, living in the underground on the run from the FBI since the late sixties. Now Danny, their oldest son and a talented pianist, wants a life of his own and the opportunity to study music at the Julliard School in New York, but this means a complete separation from his family or the paper trail required for admission will tip off the authorities.

PG-13

Rush Hour. (1998) Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Tom Wilkinson, Tzi Ma, Julia Hsu, Chris Penn, Elizabeth Pena. Directed by Brett Ratner. Jackie Inspector Lee, a Hong Kong Detective who helped confiscate millions of dollars worth of stolen Chinese artifacts from Crime Lord Juntao, finds himself paired up with an obnoxious Los Angeles cop when Juntao kidnaps Soo Yung, the eleven-year-old daughter of the Chinese consul for revenge. The two make a most unusual partership as they pursue Juntao’s forces to rescue Soo Yung.

PG

RV. (2006) Robin Williams, Jeff Daniels, Cheryl Hines, Kristin Chenoweth, Joanna Levesque, Josh Hutcherson. Directed by Barry Sonnefeld. The Munro family is forced to take their vacation in an RV, instead of going to Hawaii when Bob is told by his boss that he must attend a presentation in Colorado.

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