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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.
- Clink on the underlined title links to see a complete review with plot description, commentary, and discussion of the best "chucks" scenes of selected films.
- Actors who wear chucks in the films are highlighted in the credits list.
- Films on this page: The Object of My Affection, The Odd Couple, Once Bitten, One Crazy Summer, One Fine Day, 100 Girls,
One Night at McCool's, One
on One, The Orphange, Oskar and Josefine, The Outsiders.
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The Object of My Affection. (1968) Paul Rudd, Jennifer Aniston, Alan Alda, Nigel Hawthorne, John Pankow, Tim Daly. Directed by Nicholas Hytner. Nina falls in love with her new roommate, George, even though he's gay and loves her purely as a friend. When she becomes pregnant she realizes that she would rather raise her child with George than her boyfriend, a decision that forces the threesome to explore the fine line between love, sex, and friendship.
Categories: Comedy, Romance.
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ChucksConnection Rating: 
MPAA Rating: R
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The Odd Couple. (1968) Walter Matthau,
Jack Lemmon, Herb Edelman, Monica Evans. Directed by Gene Saks.
The film adaption of the Neil Simon comedy about two divorced
men who decide to share a New York apartment. Much of the comedy
comes off the interplay between fussy, fastidious Felix and messy
and disorganized Oscar.
Categories: Comedy.
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ChucksConnection Rating:
MPAA Rating: NR, would be PG
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Once Bitten. (1985) Jim Carrey, Lauren Hutton, Karen Kopins, Cleavon Little, Thomas Ballatore, Skip Lackey. Directed by Howard Storm. Teenager Mark Kendall dreams of going all the way with his reluctant girl friend who tells him he must wait. But things change when he meets a beautiful vampire who must drink the blood of a male virgin three times before Halloween or show her real age.
Categories: Comedy, Horror.
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ChucksConnection Rating: 
MPAA Rating: PG-13
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One Crazy Summer. (1986) John
Cusack, Demi Moore, Bobcat Goldthwait, Curtis Armstrong.
Directed by Savage Steve Holland. A prospective art student wants
to write and illustrate a love story, and goes to Nantucket to
spend the summer and get the necessary romantic experience.
Categories:
Comedy, Romance.
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ChucksConnection Rating:
MPAA Rating: PG
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One Fine Day. (1996) Michelle Pfeiffer, George Clooney, Mae Whitman, Alex D. Linz, Charles Durning. Directed by Michael Hoffman. Two single parents with opposite personalities end up spending the day watching each other's kids in this romantic comedy.
Categories: Comedy, Romance.
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ChucksConnection Rating:
MPAA Rating: PG
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100 Girls. (2000) Jonathan Tucker, Emmanuelle Chriqui, James DeBello, Katherine Heigl, Larisa Oleynik, Jaime Pressly. Written and directed by Michael Davis. A sexually starved college student finally connects with a coed during a blackout at the women's dormitory. Unsure of her real identity, he tries a succession of schemes to find out who she is.
Categories:
Comedy, Romance, Sexually Explicit.
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MPAA Rating: R
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One Night at McCool's. (2001)
Liv Taylor, Matt Dillon, Paul Reiser, John Goodman, Michael Douglas, Reba McEntire, Richard Jenkins, Andrew Dice Clay. Directed by Harald Zwart. Three unsuspecting men, a bartender, a lawyer, and a cop, all fall head over heels in love with the same sexy lady in this raucous comedy told from three different points of view.
Categories: Comedy, Crime
and Mystery, Romance, Sexually Explicit.
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MPAA Rating: R
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One on One. (1977) Robby Benson, Annette O'Toole, G. D. Spradin. Directed by Lamont Johnson. When young Henry Steele, a high school basketball star from a small town, come to Los Angeles and big time college basketball, he is quickly overwhelmed by the corruption of the system and the overbearing coach. Soon he finds himself fighting for his scholarship and college career.
Categories: Drama, Coming of Age.
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MPAA Rating: PG
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The Orphanage. (2007) Belén Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Príncep, Mabel Rivera, Montserrat Carulla. Directed by Guillermon del Toro. Returning to her childhood home, a mysterious, seaside orphanage, Laura and her family unkowingly unleash a long-forgotten, evil spirit.
Categories: Drama, Horror.
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MPAA Rating: R
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Oskar and Josefine. (2005) Pernille Kaae Høier, Mikkel Konyher, Kjeld Nørgaard, Adam Gilbert Jespersen, Frits Helmuth, Jesper Langberg, Anna Egholm, Jesper Asholt, Søren Søtter-Lassen. Directed by Carsten Myllerup. Oskar and Josefine, two 12-year-old Danish kids go to visit Oskar's grandparents for the summer. Josefine receives a medallion from a man that allows the two to time travel 400 years in the past and interact with Oskar's ancestors.
Categories: Action/Adventure, Family, Fantasy.
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ChucksConnection Rating:
MPAA Rating: PG-13
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The Outsiders.
(1983) C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio,
Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Diane Lane, Emilio
Estevez, Tom Cruise, Tom Waits. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
Set in Oklahoma in the sixties, this adaption of the S.E. Hinton
novel is about the class warfare between two rival groups of teenagers
from the opposite sides of the tracks: the "greasers",
poor kids from dysfunctional families with limited prospects,
and the "socs" (pronounced with a soft "C"
as in society), affluent kids from the nice part of town who want
to control things and keep the "greasers" in line.
Categories:
Drama, Coming of Age, Teenagers.
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MPAA Rating: PG
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