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Recent and classic films where chucks have a role. . . .
To qualify for a listing, one or more of the lead or main supporting characters in the film is seen wearing chucks -- Converse "Chuck Taylor" All Stars.
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Films on this page: The Fabulous Baker Boys, Family Sins, The Fast and the Furious, Fast Forward, Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fetching Cody, Fierce People, The Final, The Final Season, Finding Kelly, Fire with Fire, First Born, Flipped, Flubber, Fly Boy, Footloose, Frailty, Frankenstein and Me, Freddy's Dead. Freedom Writers, Frequency, The Freshman, Friday, Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning. Fried Green Tomatoes.
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	The Fabulous Baker Boys. (1989) Jeff Bridges, Michelle Pfeiffer, Beau Bridges, Ellie Raab. Written and directed by Steve Kloves. Gordon and Kate Brothers Jack and Frank Baker have been playing lounges as a piano duo for many years, but with bookings starting to decline, decide they now need a female vocalist to keep the act going. They are lucky to come across Suzie Diamond, who can really put a song over, and the act takes off. But when the relation between Suzie and Jack - younger, less committed, but more talented than Frank - briefly becomes more than professional, tensions surface between all three. Category: Drama.
	ChucksConnection Rating: MPAA Rating: R	To purchase a DVD of The Fabulous Baker Boys from The ChucksConnection click here. Back to the top.
	Family Sins. (1987) James Farentino, Jill Eikenberry, Thomas Wilson Brown, Andrew Bednarski. Directed by Jerrold Freedman. Gordon and Kate Williams goes through intense emotional turmoil in their lives and marriage when their younger son who is Gordon's obvious favorite accidentally drowns due to the negligence and resentment of their other son. Category: Drama.
	ChucksConnection Rating: MPAA Rating: [NR, would be PG-13]	To purchase a VHS video of Family Sins from The ChucksConnection click here. Back to the top.
	The Fast and the Furious. (2001) Paul Walker, Vin Daniel, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, Rick Yune. Directed by Rob Cohen. Spectacular racing scenes highlight this story about a Los Angeles police detective who infiltrates a street racing gang to apprehend the drivers who have been hijacking cargo trucks. Categories: Drama, Action/Adventure, Crime/Mystery.
	ChucksConnection Rating: MPAA Rating: PG-13	To purchase a DVD of The Fast and the Furious from The ChucksConnection click here. Back to the top.
	Fast Forward. (1985) John Scott Clough, Don Franklin, Tamara Mark, Tracy Silver, Cindy McGee, Gretchen Palmer, Monique Cintron, Debra Varnado. Directed by Sidney Poitier. Eight talented teenagers from Ohio struggle to survive in New York City and compete in a national dance contest. Categories: Drama, Musical, Teenagers.
	ChucksConnection Rating: MPAA Rating: PG	Back to the top.
	Fast Times At Ridgemont High. (1982) Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Phoebe Cates, Brian Backer, Robert Romanus, Ray Walston. Directed by Amy Heckerling. This look at the eighties high school scene that pokes fun at both teenaged and adult perspectives on sex, drugs, and what success is all about has become a cult classic. Categories: Comedy, Teenagers.
	ChucksConnection Rating: MPAA Rating: R	To purchase a VHS video of Fast Times At Ridgemont High from The ChucksConnection click here. Back to the top.
	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. (1998) Johnnny Depp, Benicio del Toro, Cameron Diaz, Christina Ricci, Gary Busey. Directed by Terry Gilliam. Based on the stories and experiences of "gonzo journalist" Hunter Thompson, this pharmaceutical road film is about how Thompson and a friend, supposedly covering a racing competition in Las Vegas, go into that town and party it down. Category: Comedy.
	ChucksConnection Rating: MPAA Rating: R	To purchase a VHS video of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas from The ChucksConnection click here. Back to the top.

	Fetching Cody. (2005) Jay Baruchel, Sarah Lind, Jim Byrnes. Written and directed by Dvid Ray. A "what if" time travel romantic love story about two drug addicted street kids in the seedier part of Vancouver. Categories: Drama, Romance, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Sexually Explicit.
	ChucksConnection Rating: MPAA Rating: NR	To purchase a DVD of Fetching Cody from The ChucksConnection click here. Back to the top.
	Fierce People. (2007) Diane Lane, Anton Yelchin, Donald Sutherland, Chris Evans, Kristen Stewart, Paz de la Huerta, Blu Mankuma, Elizabeth Perkins, Christopher Shyer, Branden Williams. Directed by Griffin Dunne. As seen through the eyes of a sixteen year old, the values and life styles of the very wealthy are contrasted with those of a savage South American tribe in this alternately satirical and melodramtic story about a summer spent in the estate of a billionaire. Categories: Drama, Coming of Age, Sexually Explicit.
	ChucksConnection Rating: MPAA Rating: R	To purchase a DVD of Fierce People from The ChucksConnection click here. Back to the top.
	The Final. (2010) Marc Donato, Jascha Washington, Whitney Hoy, Lindsay Seidel, Justin Arnold, Hunter Garner. Directed by Joey Stewart. A group of high school outcasts get revenge on the popular students who made sport of them at a deadly party that will leave their tormentors scarred for life. Categories: Drama, Horror.
	ChucksConnection Rating: MPAA Rating: R	Back to the top.
	The Final Season. (2007) Sean Astin, Powers Boothe, Michael Angarano, Rachael Leigh Cook, Tom Arnold MacKenzie Astin. Directed by David M. Evans. Kent Stock (Sean Astin) disrupts his life to become coach of the Norway, Iowa high school baseball team and try to lead them to a 20th state championship before the school is permanently closed down by the county school district. Categories: Drama, Sports.
	ChucksConnection Rating: MPAA Rating: PG	To purchase a DVD of The Final Season from The ChucksConnection click here. Back to the top.
	Finding Kelly. (1999) See Mystery Kids.
	Fire with Fire. (1986) Craig Sheffer, Virginia Madsen, Jeffrey Jay Cohen, John Polito, Kate Reid. Directed by Duncan Gibbins. A love story about two teenagers from very different worlds -- an honor prison camp and a Catholic boarding school -- who fall in love at first sight and risk everything to be together. Categories: Drama, Romance, Teenagers.
	ChucksConnection Rating: MPAA Rating: PG-13	Fire with Fire is now out of print and hard to obtain. Back to the top.
	First Born. (1984) Teri Garr, Peter Weller, Christopher Collet, Cory Haim, Sarah Jessica Parker, Robert Downey, Jr., Christopher Gartin, James Harper. A divorced mom falls in love with a low life drifter. When she has him move in with her and her two sons, the eldest son feels that he must somehow step up and save his mom and their family. Category: Drama.
	ChucksConnection Rating: MPAA Rating: PG-13	Back to the top.
	Flipped. (2010) Madeline Carroll, Callan McAuliffe , Rebecca De Mornay, Anthony Edwards, John Mahoney. Directed by Rob Reiner. Two eighth graders start to have feelings for each other despite being total opposites. Category: Drama, Comedy, Romance
	ChucksConnection Rating: NR MPAA Rating: PG	In current release Back to the top.
	Flubber. (1997) Robin Williams, Marcia Gay Harden, Clancy Brown, Ted Levine, Wil Wheaton, Edie McClurg. Directed by Les Mayfield. Remake of the 1961 Disney classic The Absent-Minded Professor. Categories: Comedy, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Family.
	ChucksConnection Rating: MPAA Rating: PG	To purchase a VHS video of Flubber from The ChucksConnection click here. Back to the top.

	Fly Boy. (1999) Miko Hughes, Kathleen Lloyd, Gregory Itzin, Joshua Boyd, Brittany Alyse Smith, James Karen. Directed by Richard Stanley. Ten year old Ray plots to help his grandfather, a World War II pilot, relive the the thrill of flying one more time before he grandfather must go live in a retirement home. Categories: Comedy, Family.
	ChucksConnection Rating: MPAA Rating: PG	To purchase a VHS video of Fly Boy from The ChucksConnection click here. Back to the top.
	Footloose. (1984) Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer, John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest, Christopher Penn. Directed by Herbert Ross. When Ren McCormack, a teenager from Chicago who likes to dance and party, moves to a small conservative Iowa town and discovers that the local minister won't permit anyone to dance or listen to rock music, he leads a campaign to let the senior class have a prom. Categories: Musical, Teenagers.
	ChucksConnection Rating: MPAA Rating: PG	To purchase a DVD of Footloose from The ChucksConnection click here. Back to the top.
	Frailty. (2001) Bill Paxton, Matthew McConaughey, Powers Boothe, Matthew O'Leary, Jeremy Sumpter. Directed by Bill Paxton. A man confessers to an FBI agent about how his religious fanatic father's visions led the family to participate in a series of murders to destroy "demons" on earth. Categories: Drama, Crime and Mystery, Horror.
	ChucksConnection Rating: MPAA Rating: R	To purchase a DVD of Frailty from The ChucksConnection click here. Back to the top.
	Frankenstein and Me. (1997) Jamieson Boulanger, Ricky Mabe, Polly Shannon, Louise Fletcher, Miriam Cyr, Burt Reynolds, Ryan Gosling, Rebecca Henderson. Directed by Robert Tinnell. Earl Williams is a young teenager obsessed with classic film monsters, who like to live in a dream world where he and his younger brother, Larry, act out various roles. This doesn't sit well with a mean teacher at school and his mother, who try to change his ways. But one day, Earl finds the "true Frankenstein", a realistic looking mannequin lost by a carnival side show, and decides to bring the monster back to life. Category: Family, Fantasy.
	ChucksConnection Rating: MPAA Rating: PG	Back to the top.
	Freddy's Dead. (1991) Robert Englund, Lisa Zane, Shon Greenblatt, Lezlie Deane, Ricky Dean Logan, Breckin Meyer, Yaphet Kotto, Roseanne,Tom Arnold, Elinor Donahue, Johnny Depp. Written and directed by Rachel Talalay. Freddy Krueger returns once again to haunt both the dreams of his daughter and Springwood's last surviving teenager. Category: Horror.
	ChucksConnection Rating: MPAA Rating: R	To purchase a DVD of Freddy's Dead from The ChucksConnection click here. Back to the top.
	Freedom Writers. (2007) Hilary Swank, Patrick Dempsey, Scott Glenn, Imelda Staunton, April L. Hernandez, Mario, Kristin Herrera, Jaclyn Ngan, Sergio Montalvo, Jason Finn, Deance Wyatt, Vanetta Smith, Gabriel Chavarria. Written and directed by Richard LaGravenese. A young teacher fights against the advice of her family and the indifference of the school system to inspire her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school. Category: Drama, Coming of Age, Crime.
	ChucksConnection Rating: MPAA Rating: PG-13	To purchase a DVD of Freedom Writers from The ChucksConnection click here. Back to the top.
	Frequency. (2000) Dennis Quaid, James Caviezel, André Braugher, Elizabeth Mitchell, Noah Emmerich, Frank McAnulty. Directed by Gregory Hoblit. When a young Brooklyn policeman gets out his father's old ham radio set on a whim during a storm, he soon finds himself talking with his father, who has been dead for thirty years! This breach of the space-time continuum soon leads to the two men trying to change the past and the surprising results that their tampering causes. This engaging thriller is both science fiction and crime drama, as well as a tribute to working class family devotion. Categories: Drama, Science Fiction, Mystery.
	ChucksConnection Rating: MPAA Rating: PG-13	To purchase a DVD of Frequency from The ChucksConnection click here. Back to the top.

	The Freshman. (1990) Matthew Broderick, Marlon Brando, Bruno Kirby, Penelope Ann Miller, Frank Whaley, B.D. Wong. Directed by Andrew Bergman. To make some extra money, a naive film student (Broderick) new to New York gets a job working for a shady importer (Brando). The student soon finds himself is working a scam involving an endangered Komodo dragon, some hungry eccentrics, and the importer's beautiful daughter. Category: Comedy.
	ChucksConnection Rating: MPAA Rating: PG	To purchase a VHS video of The Freshman from The ChucksConnection click here. Back to the top.
	Friday. (1995) Ice Cube, Chris Tucker, Nia Long, Tom Lister, Jr., John Witherspoon. Directed by F. Gary Grey. This episodic and uneven look at life in the Los Angeles black neighborhoods moves back and forth between humor and violence. Categories: Drama, Comedy.
	ChucksConnection Rating: MPAA Rating: R	To purchase a DVD of Friday from The ChucksConnection click here. Back to the top.
	Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning. (1985) Anthony Barrile, Suzanne Bateman, Dominick Brascia, Todd Bryant, Curtis Conaway, Juliette Cummins, Corey Parker, Shavar Ross. Directed by Danny Steinmann. While Jason lies unconscious, a local man decides to use Jason's old M.O. and wreaks havoc at a halfway house for troubled teens. Categories: Horror.
	ChucksConnection Rating: MPAA Rating: R	To purchase a DVD of Friday the 13th Part V from The ChucksConnection click here. Back to the top.
	Fried Green Tomatoes. (1991) Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary-Louise Parker, Mary Stuart Masterson. Directed by Jon Avnet. When an unhappy housewife befriends an elderly lady in a nursing home, she hears a remarkable tale of friendship, family, tragedy and justice set in Alabama. Based on the novel by Fannie Flagg. Categories: Drama, Mystery.
	ChucksConnection Rating: MPAA Rating: NR, would be PG-13	To purchase a DVD of Fried Green Tomatoes from The ChucksConnection click here. Back to the top.

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