The opening shot of The Cure shows you that chucks are going to play a role in this film.
A Call To Remember. (1997) Blythe Danner, Joseph Mantegna, David Lauscher, Kevin Zegers, Rita Zohar, Joe Spano. Directed by Jack Bender. Two Holocaust survivors who both lost their families in the death camps have emigrated to the United States and remarried. The couple find it difficult to deal with the desires of their two American-born sons to be independent and pursue normal activities like other Americans do. When the mother is mistakenly told that one of her sons has survived the death camps, this has a traumatizing effect on her and her family. Category: Drama.
Cameron's Closet. (1987) Scott Curtis, Cotter Smith, Mel Harris, Chuck McCann, Leigh McCloskey, Kim Laneford, Tab Hunter, Gary Hudson. Directed by Armand Mastroianni. A lonely young boy with psychic powers accidentally summons up a powerful demon during his imaginary play. When the demon kills his father and later his mother's new boyfriend, a police detective and a psychologist investigate the bizzare deaths. Categories: Horror, Science Fiction/Fanstasy.
Camp Cucamonga. (1990) John Ratzenberger, Chad Allen, Jennifer Aniston, Candace Cameron Bure, Richard Herd, Dorothy Lyman, Danica McKellar, Breckin Meyer, Brian Robbins, Josh Saviano, Tasha Scott, Lauren Tewes, Jaleel White, G. Gordon Liddy, Sherman Hemsley. Directed by Roger Duchowny. A former accountant makes his dream come true of running a summer camp for kids in this typical comedy complete with the usual camper and counselor types, misadventures, and pranks. Categories: Comedy, Teenagers.
Can't Hardly Wait. (1998) Ethan Embry, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Lauren Ambrose, Peter Facinelli, Seth Green, Charlie Korsmo, Jenna Elfman, Joel Michally, Jay Paulson. Directed by Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont. The senior class at Huntington Hills High School is about to graduate and looking forward to their class party. Romance, revenge, and rock'n'roll are all part of the mix as the various campus groups all vie for final bragging rights as their high school days come to an end. Categories: Drama, Coming of Age, Teenagers.
Captain Ron. (1992) Kurt Russell, Martin Short, Mary Kay Place, Benjamin Salisbury, Meadow Sisto. Directed by Thom Eberhardt. A corporate executive and his family inherit a yacht and decide to sail it around the Caribbean. They have no experience sailing so they hire Captain Ron to skipper the boat. Categories: Comedy.
The Cellar. (1990) Patrick Kilpatrick, Chris Miller, Michael Wren, Suzanne Savoy, Ford Rainey. Directed by Kevin Tenney. When young Willy comes to New Mexico to spend the summer with his divorced father and his new wife and baby, he accidentally unleashes a terrifying monster evil spirt conjured by Comanche Indians after the white man took their land. Although the monster starts wrecking havoc, Willy cannot convince his parents that it is real, but desperately tries to prove its existence and stop it from killing. Categories: Drama, Horror, Science Fiction.
Change of Habit. (1969) Elvis Presley, Mary Tyler Moore, Barbara McNair, Edward Asner. Directed by William Graham. At an inner city medical clinic, young Dr. Carpenter is assigned three female medical social workers to assist him, but he doesn't know that they are actually nuns. When loves starts to blossom between the doctor and Michelle, one of the nuns, she must decide whether to follow her heart or remain true to her vows. Categories: Comedy, Romance.
Changing Habits. (1997) Moira Kelly, Dylan Walsh, Teri Garr, Eileen Brennan, Christopher Lloyd. Directed by Lynn Roth. A gifted young artist is running short of funds, and rather than ask for assistance from her estranged father (who is also a famous artist), she takes refuge in a run down house of nuns. But the lifestyle and everpresent chores are more than she bargained for, especially after she begins to become romantically involved with an art supply salesman. Categories: Drama, Romance.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. (2005) Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, David Kelly, Helena Bonham Carter, Noah Taylor, Missi Pyle, James Fox, Deep Roy, Christopher Lee, Adam Godley, Jordan Fry, Franziska Troegner, AnnaSophia Robb, Julia Winter, Philip Wiegratz. Directed by Tim Burton. Charlie and four other kids win a tour through the most incredible chocolate factory in the world, run by Willy Wonka, the world's most unusual candy maker. Categories: Comedy, Family, Fantasy/Science Fiction.
Charlie Bartlett. (2007) Anton Yelchin, Robert Downey Jr., Hope Davis, Kat Dennings, Tyler Hilton, Mark Rendall, Dylan Taylor, Megan Park, Jake Epstein, Jonathan Malen, Derek McGrath. Directed by Jon Poll. Expelled from a series of private schools, wealthy and intelligent teenager Charlie Bartlett must attend a public high school where he at first has trouble fitting in and is harassed by school bully Murphy Bivens. As he begins to better understand the social structure at the school, Charlie enlists Bivens to help him become the resident counsellor to other students, giving out advice and drugs that he gets from his own sessions with psychiatrists. He also falls in love with the principal's daughter, tangles with the school district hierarchy, and learns to deal with his own family problems. Categories: Comedy, Teenagers, Coming of Age.
Charlotte's Web. (2006) Dakota Fanning, Kevin Anderson, Essie Davis, Louis Corbett, Julian O'Donnell, Robyn Arthur, Siobhan Fallon, Gary Basaraba, Beau Bridges, plus voice overs by Julia Roberts, Steve Buscemi, John Cleese, Oprah Winfrey, Cedric the Entertainer, Kathy Bates, Reba McEntire, Robert Redford, Thomas Haden Church, André Benjamin, Dominic Scott Kay, Sam Shepard. Directed by Gary Winick. Excellent new adaption of the classic E.B. White tale about a young girl who adopts Wilbur, the runt of a litter pigs, the spider who helps him to survive, and how their actions end up affecting an entire Maine farm community. Categories: Comedy, Family, Fantasy/Science Fiction.
Chasing Liberty. (2003) Mandy Moore, Matthew Goode, Mark Harmon, Jereny Piven, Annabella Sciorra, Stark Sands.. The president's teenaged daughter wants to experience some freedom from her ever-present secret service escorts. So on a trip to Europe, she engineers an impromptu escape, ending up in the arms of an attractive but reluctant British young man, a complete stranger, or is he? Categories: Comedy, Romance.
Cheaper by the Dozen. (2003) Steve Martin, Bonnie Hunt, Tom Welling, Hilary Duff, Ashton Kutcher, Kevin Schmidt, Alyson Stoner, Jacob Smith, Liliana Murry, Morgan York, Forrest Landis, Blake Woodruff, Brent and Shane Kinsman. Directed by Shawn Levy. The Bakers, a family with 12 kids, reluctantly move from small town Illinois to the big city when Tom Baker is hired as football coach of a Division 1 college team in Evanston. But when Kate, Tom's wife, gets a big time book contract, Tom is left home alone with the kids while trying to deal with the pressures of coaching. Categories: Comedy, Family.
Child's Play 2. (1990) Alex Vincent, Jenny Agutter, Gerrit Graham, Christine Elise, Brad Dourif. Directed by John Lafia. This is the second film in the series about the evil doll Chucky who is trying to possess the soul of young Andy Barclay. Although burned to a crisp in the first film, Chucky is refurbished by the toy factory trying to dispel the negative publicity surrounding the doll. The chase begins again when Chucky is able to track Andy to the new foster home where he is now living. Categories: Drama, Horror.
The Chumscrubber. (2005) Jamie Bell, Camilla Belle, Justin Chatwin, Glenn Close, Rory Culkin, Thomas Curtis, Tim DeKay, William Fichtner, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, John Heard. Directed by Arie Posin. A dark comedy about an alienated teenager who discovers the suicidal body of his best friend and doesn't bother telling any of the parents in his postcard-perfect neightborhood full of self-centered people and dysfunctional families. Categories: Drama, Teenagers.
A Cinderella Story. (2004) Hillary Duff, Jennifer Coolidge, Chad Michael Murray, Dan Byrd, Regina King, Julie Gonzalo, Paul Rodriguez, Hannah Robinson. Directed by Mark Rossman. A modern day adaption of the classic story set in a San Fernando Valley high school and Cinderella (Sam) wears high top chucks. Categories: Comedy, Romance, Teenagers.
Clerks II. (2006) Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith. Directed by Kevin Smith. A calamity at Dante and Randall's shops sends them looking for new horizons - but they ultimately settle at Mooby's, a fictional Disney-McDonald's-style fast-food empire. Category: Comedy.
Click. (2006) Adam Sandler, Kate Beckinsale, Christopher Walken, David Hasselhoff, Henry Winkler, Julie Kavner, Sean Astin. Directed by Frank Coraci. Click focuses on a workaholic architect who finds a universal remote that allows him to fast-forward and rewind to different parts of his life. Complications arise when the remote starts to overrule his choices.. Categories: Fantasy, Drama
The Client. (1994) Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones, Brad Renfro, Mary-Louise Parker, Anthony Edwards, Anthony LaPaglia, Ossie Davis. Directed by Joel Schumacher. Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones, and Brad Renfro all deliver strong performances in this well done screen adaptation of the John Grisham novel about a young boy pursued by both the Mafia and the FBI when he witnesses the suicide of a mob lawyer. Categories: Crime and Mystery, Drama
The Climb. (1997) John Hurt, Gregory Smith, David Strathairn, Stephen McHattie, Seth Smith, Sarah Buxton, Marla Sokoloff, Oliver Hodges. Directed by Bob Swain. A twelve year old boy wants to climb a huge but decrepit radio tower to prove his courage in this coming of age story set in suburban Baltimore in the late fifties. John Hurt plays a dying cranky old man living next door who helps the boy pursue his dream and discover the true meaning of bravery. Categories: Drama, Family, Coming of Age.
The Club. (1994) J. H. Wyman, Kim Coates, Andrea Roth, Rino romano, Zack Ward, Kelli Taylor, Matthew Ferguson, Paul Popowich, Nicole Stoffman. Directed by Brenton Spencer. Students at their senior prom find themselves in an alternate world of fear and death. They must find a way to face their fears or join 'The Club." Categories: Horror.
Commando. (1985) Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong, Dan Hedaya, Vernon Wells, James Olson, David Patrick Kelly, Alyssa Milano, Bill Duke, Drew Snyder, Sharon Wyatt, Michael Delano. Directed by Mark L. Lester. Colonel John Matrix is a retired Special Forces commando now living under cover in the country with his daughter Jenny. But someone has been killing members of his unit one-by-one and later kidnaps Jenny. Matrix is told he must assassinate the president of a Latin American country if he ever wants to see her alive again. However Matrix has other ideas and he will stop at nothing to save Jenny... even if he has to start a one man war. Categories: Action/Adventure, Drama.
Comeback Season. (2006) Ray Liotta, Glenne Headly, Shaun Sipos, Rachel Blanchard, Chloe Pearce, Brooke Nevin. Written and directed by Bruce McCulloch. A cheating husband and an injured star high school quarterback become court ordered roommates after their lives fall apart and they act out in public. The two form an unlikely alliance as they try for a second chance at love and stardom. Categories: Drama, Romance.
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes. (1995) Kirk Cameron, Larry Miller, Jason Bernand, Andrew Woodworth, Anne Tremko, Michael McCurley, Dean Jones. Directed by Peyton Reed. (Remake for television) Dexter Riley, a below average student at Medfield College, suddenly becomes a genius with a computer for a brain when a freak electrical accident transfers the entire content of a computer encyclopedia into his brain. Soon Dexter is famous, and now must deal with the pressures put on him by the college dean, jealous rivals, and the government, along with the estrangement he experiences with his friends. Categories: Comedy, Family.
Cool Runnings. (1993) Leon, Doug E. Doug, Rawle D.Lewis, Malik Yoba, John Candy. Directed by Jon Turtelltaub. Several Jamaican athletes, determined to make it to the Olympics, decide to compete in the bobsled event. Categories: Comedy, Sports.
The Conrad Boys. (2006) Justin Lo, Boo Boo Stewart, Nick Bartzen, Barry Shay, Nancy Hancock. Directed by Justin Lo. Charlie tries to raise his highly imaginative younger brother after the sudden death of their mother. Their lives are complicated by the return of their long absent father, and Charlie's romantic attraction to Nick, a drifter with a checkered past. Categories: Drama, Sexually Explicit, Coming of Age.
Cooley High. (1975) Glynn Turman, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Garrett Morris, Cynthia Davis, Corin Rogers, Maurice Havis. Directed by Jon Turtelltaub. This look at black teen life in 1964 focuses around two friends Preach and Cochise who want to make the most of their final days as seniors. Categories: Drama, Coming of Age.
Cornbread, Earl, and Me. (1975) Moses Gunn, Keith Wilkes, Bernie Casey, Rosalind Cash, Laurence Fishburne. Directed by Joe Manduke. When Cornbread, a promising high school basketball player about to leave the ghetto, is killed by two policemen who mistake him for a rapist, the local authorities use strong-arm methods to cover up what happened and silence the community. It is up to his younger brother and his friend Earl to find the courage to speak up and clear his name. Categories: Drama, Crime and Mystery, Family.
Corvette Summer. (1978) Mark Hamill, Annie Potts, Eugene Roche, William Bryant, Kim Milford, Philip Bruns, Danny Bonaduce. Directed by Matthew Robbins. Ken, a high school student with great skill as a mechanic fixes up a Corvette Stingray in his auto shop class with the help of his classmates. Unfortunately, the car is stolen, so Ken puts out all his efforts in getting it back. A hot tip leads him to Las Vegas, where he hooks up with a fledgling hooker, Vanessa, who helps him try to track down the Stingray before it gets away for good. Category: Comedy, Action/Adventure.
The Couch Trip. (1988) Dan Aykroyd, Walter Matthau, Charles Grodin, Donna Dixon, Richard Romanus. Directed by Michael Ritchie. John Burns, a not-so-crazy inmate of an Illinois insane asylum, intercepts a call to his psychiatrist and fraudulently accepts an offer to replace a stressed-out celebrity shrink as host of a radio call in show. Burns makes an ingenious escape to Los Angeles and quickly becomes a ratings success. But Burns' scam is endangered when another con man posing as a priest gets on to him. Category: Comedy.
Creator. (1985) Peter O'Toole, Vincent Spano, Mariel Hemingway, Virginia Madsen. Directed by Ivan Passer. A quirky romance that stars Peter O'Toole as an eccentric Nobel laureate who is secretly trying to create a clone of his dear, departed wife, and enlists the services of a young graduate student to help him. Categories: Drama, Romance, Sexually Explicit.
Critters 3. (1991) John Calvin, Katherine Cortez, Aimee Brooks, Leonardo di Caprio. Directed by Kristine Peterson. The fanged, famished fur-balls from outer space return for another outing, this time invading a run-down apartment building in Grover Springs where the greedy landlord is trying to get the tenants to leave. Categories: Science Fiction, Horror.
Crooklyn. (1994) Alfre Woodard, Delroy Lindo, David Patrick Kelly, Zelda Harris, Carlton Williams, Harif Rashed, Tse-Mach Washinton, Christopher Knowings. Directed by Spike Lee. Spike Lee's semi-autobiographical film about an African-American family struggling to raise five children in Brooklyn during the 1970's, told from the point of view of the 10 year old daughter. Categories: Drama, Coming of Age.
The Cure. (1995) Brad Renfro, Joseph Mazzello, Annabella Sciorra, Diana Scarwid, Bruce Davison. Directed by Peter Horton. A moving coming of age story about two lonely eleven-year old boys who develop an unlikely friendship. This is an unusual film about kids because its strong character development, minimalist style, and the riveting performances by Brad Renfro and Joseph Mazzello more than compensate for the somewhat improbable story line. Categories: Drama, Coming of Age.
Cursed. (2005) Portia de Rossi, Mya, Shannon Elizabeth, Solar, Daniel Edward Mora, Kristina Anapau, Jesse Eisenberg, Milo Ventimiglia, Jonny Acker, Eric Ladin, Christina Ricci, Joshua Jackson. Directed by Wes Craven. A werewolf loose in Los Angeles changes the lives of three young adults, who, after being mauled by the beast, learn they must kill their attacker if they hope to change their fate. Categories: Thriller, Horror.
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