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NR,

would be PG

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.

R

Safelight. (1998) Evan Peters, Juno Temple, Kevin Alejandro, Meaghan Martin, Christine Lahti, Ariel Winter, Jason Beghe. Written and directed by Tony Aloupis. Charles, a shy, crippled 17-year-old boy and the 18-year-old hooker who plies her trade near the truck stop where Charles works, discover a renewed sense of possibility as they go on a road trip to photograph lighthouses along the California coast during the 1970s.

R

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.

NR,

would be PG

Same River Twice. (1995) Robert Curtis-Brown, John Putch, Shea Farrell, Dwier Brown. Written and directed by Scott Featherstone. Thirteen years after a fatal accident, four former whitewater rafting guides return with their families to revisit the river.

PG

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.

PG

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.

PG

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.

NR

Santa. (2021) Manuel Vainstein, Mariana Anghileri, Jonathan Da Rosa, Germán De Silva, Guilermina Ruiz Díaz, Daiana 'Dai' Hernández, Roly Serrano. Directed by Victor Postiglione. Robinson is desperately searching for his sister Santa, a victim of a human trafficking ring in a humble town in the province of Buenos Aires. Together with his cousin José and his friend Ornella, they go into the worst places in the area in search of El Toni, a child trafficker who, they say, has Santa and other young women kidnapped to sell them to neighboring countries.

PG

The Santa Clause. (1994) Tim Allen, Judge Reinhold, Wendy Crewson, Eric Lloyd, David Krumholtz, Larry Brandenburg, Mary Gross, Paige Tamada, Peter Boyle. Directed by John Pasquin. When a man inadvertently makes Santa fall off of his roof on Christmas Eve, he finds himself magically recruited to take his place.

G

The Santa Clause 3: the Escape Clause. (2006) Tim Allen, Martin Short, Elizabeth Mitchell, Eric Lloyd, Judge Reinhold, Wendy Crewson, Liliana Mumy, Spencer Breslin, Ann-Margret, Alan Arkin, Abigail Breslin, Art LaFleur, Aisha Tyler, Kevin Pollak, Jay Thomas, Michael Dorn, Peter Boyle. Directed by John Pasquin. Santa, a.k.a. Scott Calvin, is faced with double-duty: how to keep his new family happy and how to stop Jack Frost from taking over Christmas.

PG

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 neighbor Judd is suspected of commiting.

R

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.

NR

Scary Godmother: Halloween Spooktakular. (2003) Voices of Garry Chalk, Noel Callahan, Alex Doduk, Britt Irvin, Britt McKillip, Danny McKinnon, Scott McNeil, Adam Pospisil, and Tabitha St. Germain. Directed by Ezekiel Norton. Hannah-Marie's Halloween is off to a spooky start, with costumes and candy and scary stories from her cousin Jimmy. But when Jimmy and his friends frighten her to tears, can her Scary Godmother set things right?

TV-MA,

or PG-13

The Scary House (aka Das schaurige Haus). (2020) Julia Koschitz, Marii Weichsler, Michael Pink, Leon Orlandianyi, Inge Maux, Finn Reiter, Benno Rosskopf, Lars Bitterlich. Directed by Daniel Prochaska. When teenager Hendrik and his younger brother Eddi are uprooted from their Germany city life by their mother to move into an old house in a small Austrian mountain village, they are shunned by the locals who believe it is haunted due to the crimes of a previous owner. When that seems to be true, Hendrik, Eddi, and new friends Fritz and Ida set off on a quest to discover the menacing secret of their house.

PG

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.

PG-13

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.

NR

Sci-Fi High: The Movie Musical. (2010) Danny Dillon, Steve Dispensa, Joe Botka, Robert Fattorina, Alicen Holden, Ted Nappi, Jose Guzman, Britt Hodges. Written and directed by Dan Bellusci. A typical fifties high school romance and competition between guys story combined with an alien invasion and packaged as a musical. What more could you want?

PG

Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins. (2009) Nick Palatas, Kate Melton, Robbie Amell, Hayley Kiyoko. Directed by Brian Levant. The story of how Mystery, Inc. was formed.

R

R

Scream VI. (2023) Melissa Barrera, Jenna Ortega, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Mason Gooding, Hayden Panettiere, Courteney Cox, Josh Segarra, Jack Champion, Devyn Nekoda, Liana Liberato, Samara Weaving, Tony Revolori, and Dermot Mulroney. Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett. Following the latest Ghostface killings, the four survivors leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter.

NR

Second Chances. (2021) Cal Jennings Laxton, Rich Swingle, AnnaBelle Collins, Denise Morris, Annalisa Johnson, Abigail Hovey, Spring Laree, Scott Mullet. Directed by Elijah Holston. Cameron has doubts about his Christian faith when he struggles with the guilt he harbors for not being able to save his best friend from a fireworks accident.

R

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.

PG

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.

PG

The Secret: Dare To Dream. (2020) Katie Holmes, Josh Lucas, Celia Weston, Jerry O'Connell, Sarah Hoffmeister, Aidan Pierce Brennan, Chloe Lee. Written and directed by Andy Tennant. Based on the best-selling self-help book by Rhonda Byrne, the film is about Miranda, a young widow struggling to make ends meet while raising her three children and dating her boyfriend/employer. A devastating storm brings an enormous challenge and a mysterious man, Bray, into Miranda’s life. Bray reignites the family’s spirit but also holds an important secret — one that will change everything.

PG

The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry. (2008) Jansen Panettiere, Robert Guillamume, Gavin MacLeod, Taylor Boggan, Frankie Manriquez, Allen Isaacson. Written and directed by Rich Christiano. An elderly Christian man imparts Biblical truths to young boys in the summer of 1970.

R

The Secrets We Keep. (2020) Noomi Rapace, Joel Kinnaman, Chris Messina, Jackson Dean Vincent, Amy Seimetz, Miluette Nalin, Madison Paige Jones. Written and directed by Yuval Adler. In post World War II America, a woman, rebuilding her life in the suburbs with her husband, kidnaps her neighbor and seeks vengeance for the heinous war crimes she believes he committed against her.

NR,

would be PG-13

Seduction Theory. (2014) Michael Cumpsty, Georgia Lyman, Christian Goodwin, Ariel Bavly, Lily Gavin. Written and directed by Steven Ascher. A man looks back at when he was twelve years old, contending with his psychoanalyst father, the teachings of Sigmund Freud, his own personal problems, and the girl he hopes will save him.

PG

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.

NR,

would be G

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.

PG-13

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.

R

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.

NR,

would be PG-13

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.

R

Shakes the Clown. (1992) Bobcat Goldthwait, Julie Brown, Paul Dooley. Directed by Bobcat Goldthwait. An alcoholic clown is framed for murder by rival clowns.

PG-13

Shazam! (2019) Asher Angel, Zachary Levi, Mark Strong, Jack Dylan Grazer, Djimmon Hounsou, Faith Herman, Grace Fulton, Ian Chen, Marta Milans, Cooper Andrews, David Kohlsmith. Directed by David F. Sandberg. Billy Batson, a streetwise fourteen-year-old foster kid, is brought into the world of superheroes and given magical powers that enable him to turn into a grown-up superhero by shouting out the word Shazam! View a photo gallery of stills of Austin Asher and David Kohlsmith in Shazam!

PG

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.

R

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.

PG

Short Circuit. (1986) Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg, Fisher Stevens, Austin Pendleton, G.W. Bailey, Brian McNamara, Tim Blaney. Directed by John Badham. Number 5, one of a group of experimental military robots, undergoes a sudden transformation after being struck by lightning. He develops human characteristics of self-awareness, consciousness, and a fear of the reprogramming that awaits him back at the factory. With the help of a young woman, Number 5 tries to evade capture and convince his creator that he has truly become alive.

PG-13

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.

R

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.

NR,

would be R

Sick Girl. (2007) Leslie Andrews, John McGarr, Ian Villalobos, Charlie Trepany. Written and directed by Eben McGarr. Seriously messed-up young gal Izzy isn’t having an easy time of it: Both her parents are dead, her older brother Rusty is fighting overseas in Iraq, and she has to raise her younger brother Kevin by herself. Moreover, Izzy lets off steam by torturing and killing people. After catching a trio of bullies picking on Kevin in school, Izzy blows a gasket and embarks on a vicious rampage.

PG

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.

NR,

would be PG-13

Silk Hope. (1999) Farah Fawcett, Chuck Norris, Beau Bridges, Mako, Julia Nickson, Richard Moll, Joe Piscopo. Directed by Kevin Dowling. Frannie Vaughn, a fun-loving drifter, returns to the North Carolina farm where she grew up and tries to prevent it from being sold by her sister.

PG

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.

R

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.

PG

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.

R

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.

R

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.

R

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.

PG

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.

NR,

would be G

Skymaster (Der var engang en dreng). (2006) Janus Dissing Rathke, Nicholas Bro, Anne-Grethe Bjarup Riis, Anders W. Berthelsen. Directed by Steen Rasmussen and Michae Wikke. Life becomes troublesome when 13-year-old Kalle’s newborn sister has a birth defect on her back resembling wings. Only he sees the true miracle of his sister’s odd appendages. When she is sent to the renowned Plastic Palace Clinic of cosmetic surgery for an amputation, Kalle sets out on a rescue mission. Danish with English subtitles.

2.5 chucks for the film and an extra .5 for the great chucks cinematography.

PG

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.

NR,

would be R

R

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.

NR,

would be PG-13

Sleeping Giant. (2015) Jackson Martin, Katelyn McKerracher, Reece Moffett, Nick Serino, Erika Brodzky, David Disher, Lorraine Philp. Directed by Andew Cividino. The Hudson family is spending their summer at their north Lake Superior cabin and fifteen-year-old Adam begins to cope with the realities of life for this first time. He must deal with his father’s philandering, his uncertain feelings about his long time girl friend, and partcipating in the dangerous and sometimes illegal activities of his two cousins who are constantly competing with each other.

R

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.

NR,

would be PG

Slow Fade. (2011) James Pendleton, Katherine M. O'Neill, Ted Pendleton, Amie Anstett, Justin Cisco, Kelsea Mort, Jordan Santiago. Written and directed by Ryan Anstett. A young man growing up from a broken home, with the “wrong crowd” of friends, and a tendency for violence, has his life turned around when an elderly man he attacked doesn’t press charges and helps him turn his life around. A Christian film made by the Anstett and Pendelton families.

PG

Smitty. (2012) Brandon Tyler Russell, Peter Fonda, Mira Sorvino, Louis Gossett Jr., Jason London, Booboo Stewart. Directed by David M. Evans. Ben, a bratty 13-year-old kid caught vandalizing a restaurant, and unwilling to snitch on the others responsible is given a choice: spend a summer away from the city at his grandfather’s farm for three months or go to juvenile hall. But Ben has never even met his grandfather, who is estranged from his single mom. Luckily his grandfather hooks him up with Smitty, a farm dog who helps Ben find his way.

R

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.

PG

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.

PG-13

Solar Destruction. (aka Solar Flare) (2008) Michelle Clunie, Tracey Gold, Chris Brochu, Kasan Butcher, Ted Monte, Cliff De Young. Directed by Fred Olen Ray. A young math genius figures out a way to predict solar storms. When he discovers a huge solar storm on the verge of destroying the Earth's power grid, he must alert the world before a powerful businessman stops him.

TV-14

Soul Harvest. (2018) (aka The Harvesting) Elena Caruso, Chris Conner, Noah Headley, Accalia Quintana. Directed by Ivan Kraljevic. To escape their marital problems, a young family travels from the city to spend the summer in Amish Country where a malevolent presence grips them. They soon discover that they were brought there for a reason and they must break free before the demonic hold consumes them.

PG

Sox. (2013) David DeLuise, Kerry Feirman, Jamison Haase, Anton Starkman. Directed by Jason Horton. A new family is having difficulty adjusting, when an adorable dog comes into their life. Once his special powers are discovered, the local dog catcher and the F.B.D.I. (Federal Bureau of Dog Investigation) will stop at nothing to get him.

NR,

would be PG

Spaceboy. (2006) Arman Zajic, Michelle Page, Chirstopher Emreson, Richard Tanner, Bridget Cohen, Austin Hayden, Jeff Blumberg. Written and directed by Ransom Riggs. Max Phelps is the ultimate outsider: a kid so alienated from his peers that he figures he’d be more at home with aliens. But just when it looks like he’s finally made contact, a strange creature of another kind appears: his older brother’s punk-rock girlfriend, Carrie. Now, torn between two worlds and with time running out, he’ll have to choose: stay or go?

NR,

would be PG

SpaceBoy. (2021) Basile Grunberger, Albane Masson, Yannick Renier, Bérénice Baôo, Jean-Benoît Ugeux, Peter Van den Begin. Written and directed by Olivier Pairoux. A gifted eleven-year-old boy secretly builds an air balloon with his friend Emma to prove to his father that everything in life is possible. In French. The cinematography features many close up shots of Basile Grunberger’s blue high top chucks. Click here to see a photo gallery.

PG-13

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.

NR,

would be R

Sparrows. (Þrestir) (2015) Atli Oskar Fjalarsson, Rakel Björk Björnsdóttir, Ingvar Sigurdsson, Rade Serbedzija, Nanna Kristín Magnúsdóttir, Arna Magnea Danks. Written and directed by Rúnar Rúnarsson. A coming-of-age story about the 16-year old boy Ari, who has been living with his mother in Reykjavik and is suddenly sent back to the remote Westfjords to live with his father Gunnar. There, he has to navigate a difficult relationship with his father, and he finds his childhood friends changed. In these hopeless and declining surroundings, Ari has to step up and find his way.

PG-13

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.

PG-13

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.

PG

PG-13

PG-13

PG

PG-13

R

Spontaneous. (2020) Katherine Langford, Charlie Plummer, Yvonne Orji, Hayley Law, Piper Perabo, Rob Huebel, Chris Shields, Marlowe Percival. Written and directed by Brian Duffield. When students in their school begin exploding (literally), seniors Mara and Dylan struggle to survive in a world where each moment may be their last.

PG

Spooky House. (2000) Ben Kingsley, Matt Weinberg, Ronald Joshua Scott, Simon Baker, Jason Fuchs, Chaz Monet, Katharine Isabelle, Myles Ferguson, Kyle Labine, 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.

PG-13

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.

Spud. (2010) Troye Sivan, John Cleese, Jamie Royal, Sven Ruygrok, Blessing Zaba, Tom Burne. Written and directed by Donovan Marsh. Spud Milton’s first year at an elite boys only private boarding school. John Milton is a boy from an ordinary background who wins a scholarship to a private school in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa.

Spud 3: Learning to Fly. (2014) Troye Sivan, John Cleese, Genna Blair, Sven Ruygrok, Blessing Zaba, Byron Langley,Tom Burne. Directed by John Barker. As Spud Milton continues his awkward stagger through adolescence, he learns one of life’s most important lessons: When dealing with women and cretins, nothing is ever quite as it seems.

PG

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.

PG-13

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.

PG

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.

PG

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.

R,

should be PG-13

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.

PG

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.

PG

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.

R

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..

R

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.

NR

Step Aside. (2023) Arden Myrin, Jackie Tohn, Merrick Hanna, Pressley Hosbach, Kelly Sweeney , Victoria Caro, Tara Copeland, Tahani Anderson, Ellarose Kaylor. Written and directed by Rebekka Johnson. Step Aside is a larger than life comedy about a dance world diva who inadvertently gets her team disqualified from the big competition and the ridiculous lengths she'll go to get them back on top.

R

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.

PG

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.

PG-13

R

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.

PG-13

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.

Storm. (2009) Marcus Rønnov, Kirsten Lehfeldt, Troels Lyby, Søren Malling, Mille Dinesen, Gordon Kennedy, Frederikke Hjort Arentz, Sebastian Solá-Gross Kristensen, Sebastian Nielsen, Simon Maagaard Holm. Directed by Giacomo Campeotto. Twelve-year-old Freddie has a tough life. Bullied at school and not communicating well with his widower father, things start to change in his life when he meets up with a dog who Freddie sees is not treated well. Freddie rescues and wants to adopt the dog, who he names Storm, but the dog’s owner wants an excessive amount of money for it.

R

Straight Outta Compton. (2015) O’Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, Neil Brown, Jr., Aldis Hodge, Marlon Yates, Jr., Cara Patterson, Alexandra Shipp, Paul Giamatti. Directed by F. Gary Gray. The group NWA emerges from the mean streets of Compton in Los Angeles, California, in the mid-1980s and revolutionizes Hip Hop culture with their music and tales about life in the hood.

PG-13

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.

PG

The Stream. (2015) CJ Diehl, Jacob M. Williams, Michael Capperella, Rainn Wilson, Mario Lopez, Kelly Rutherford, Christopher Gorham, Nora Joust, Madison Kaplan, Sabrina D. Carter. Directed by Estlin Feigley. Five adolescent friends go on a hike along a stream to avoid town bullies and replace a broken plastic bat used in their Star Wars games.

R

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.

PG

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.

PG

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.

PG

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.

NR,

would be PG-13

Sublime. (2022) Martín Miller, Teo Inama Chiabrando, Azul Mazzeo, Joaquín Arana, Facundo Trotonda, Javier Drolas, Carolina Tejeda, Emma Subiela, Candela De Carli, Agustina Midol. Written and diected by Mariano Biasin. Sixteen-year-old Manuel lives in a small South American coastal town with his mother and father who makes and repairs guitars. Manuel and his best friend Felipe share a strong friendship and play together in a band. Although they both have girlfriends, Manual gradually discovers that he has serious feelings for Felipe. In Spanish.

PG-13

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.

NR,

would be R

Summer of 84. (2018) Graham Verchere, Judah Lewis, Caleb Emery, Cory Gruter-Andrew, Tiera Skovbye, Rich Sommer, Jason Gray-Stanford, Shauna Johannesen. After suspecting that their police officer neighbor is a serial killer, a group of teenage friends spend their summer spying on him and gathering evidence, but as they get closer to discovering the truth, things get dangerous.

NR,

would be PG

NR,

would be PG

PG-13

R

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.

NR,

would be PG

PG-13

Super 8. (2011) Joel Courtney, Gabriel Basso, Kyle Chandler, Elle Fanning, Ron Eldard, Noah Emmerich, Riley 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.

PG-13

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.

PG

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.

PG

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.

PG

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.

PG-13

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.

PG-13

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.

R

Swinging Safari. (2018) Guy Pearce, Kylie Minogue, Jesse Denyer, Atticus Robb, Jacob Kotan, Alex Kotan, Chelsea Jamieson, Ava Taylor, Radha Mitchell, Julian McMahon, Darcey Wilson, Ethan Robinson, James Calder, Asher Keddie, Jeremy Sims. Written and directed by Stephan Elliott. A teenaged filmmaker comes of age in a small Australian coastal town in this nostalgic look at the lives of three neighboring families growing up during the 1970s.

PG-13

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.