The Chuck Taylor in Films: F

NR,

would be PG-13

NR,

would be R

Fetching Cody. (2005) Jay Baruchel, Sarah Lind, Jim Byrnes. Written and directed by David Ray. A “what if” time travel romantic love story about two drug addicted street kids in the seedier part of Vancouver.

R

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.

R

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.

PG

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.

PG

Finding ‘Ohana. (2021) Kea Peahu, Kyndra Sanchez, Alex Aiono, Lindsay Watson, Owen Vaccaro, Kelly Hu, Branscombe Richmond, Brad Kalilimoku. Directed by Jude Weng. A summer in rural O’ahu takes an exciting turn for two Brooklyn-raised siblings when a journal pointing to long-lost treasure sets them on an epic adventure with new friends, and leads them to reconnect with their Hawaiian heritage.

PG

Finn On The Fly. (2008) Matthew Knight, Ryan Belleville, Ana Gasteyer, Brandon Firia, David Milchard. Directed by Mark Jean. Ben Soledad, a shy thirteen-year-old, tries his best to fit in at MacKenzie Junior High, but most of the time he feels like his only friend in the world is his dog, Finn. Just when he thinks life can’t get worse, his world is turned upside-down when the scientist living next door performs a genetic experiment that goes terribly awry, transforming his dog into a human.

PG-13

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.

R

Fire with Fire. (2012) Josh Duhamel, Rosario Dawson, Bruce Willis, Vincent D’Onofrio. Directed by David Barrett. A fireman who witnessed the brutal murders of a convenience store owner and his son by a local crime lord and barely escapes himself, evades the witness protection program to go after the crime lord as a one man vigilante.

PG

Firefly. (2023) Alessandra de Rossi, Euwenn Mikaell, Yayo Aguila, Epy Quizon, Cherry Pie Picache, Miguel Tanfelix, Ysabel Ortega, Kokoy de Santos, Max Collins, Juancho Trivino, Elle Villanueva. Directed by Zig Dulay. After his mother Elay passes away from breast cancer, ten-year old Tonton goes on a search for the “Island of Fireflies”, a mystical island he learned from her during bedtime stories where he believes he can again encounter her spirit. On the bus trip there he meets up with Louis, Billy, and Erika, who are antagonistic at first, but end up helping him on his journey. In Filipino with English subtitles.

PG-13

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.

R,

should be PG-13

The First Time, aka Love At First Hiccup. (2009) Devon Werkheiser, Nicholas Braun, Scout Taylor-Compton, Ken Luckey, Adam J. Bernstein. Directed by David Grodon Green. Victor, a bumbling and gullible high school freshman has a crush on Anya, a popular senior who doesn’t know he exists. But Victor develops an elaborate scheme to get a date with her.

PG-13

The First Time. (2012) Britt Robertson, Dylan O’Brien, James Frecheville, Victoria Justice, Maggie Elizabeth Jones. Written and directed by Jonathan Kasdan. Dave is an incurable romantic in love with the hottest girl in school who only thinks of him as a friend. Then he meets Aubrey, an alluring girl from a nearby school.

NR,

would be PG

The Five. (2010) Madisen Beatty, Emily Cho, Ry Feder Pruett, Ben Larned, Allison Larned, Dan Lauria. Directed by Dave Yasuda. Five kids living in a Denver suburb from two different families created by the divorce of one set of parents enter another realm of reality one morning — their neighborhood many years in the past. How they deal with getting back home helps them understand important issues in their lives and deal with the anger they feel over the separation of their parents.

R

Flight of the Innocent. (1992) Manuel Colao, Federico Pacifici, Sal Borgese, Lucio Zagaria, Giusi Cataldo, Massimo Lodolo, Severino Saltarelli, Francesca Neri, Jacques Perrin. Written and directed by Carlo Carlei. When 10-year-old Vito’s family is wiped out by a rival gang of kidnappers, Vito must survive on his own, vigorously pursued by Scarface, head of the rival gang. Carrying only the backpack of Simone Rienzi, a boy Vito’s age who is another dead victim, Vito travels to Rome to hook up with his cousin Orlando, and eventually tracks down the parents of Simone.

PG

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.

PG

Flora & Ulysses. (2021) Matilda Lawler, Alyson Hannigan, Ben Schwartz, Danny Pudi, Darien Martin, Anna Deavere Smith, Bobby Moynihan, John Kassir. Directed by Lena Khan. The adventures of a young girl and a squirrel with superpowers.

R

The Florida Project. (2017) Brooklynn Prince, Bria Vinaite, Willem Dafoe, Aiden Malik. Written and directed by Sean Baker. Halley lives with her six-year-old daughter Moonee in a budget motel along one of the commercial strips catering to the Walt Disney World tourist clientele outside Orlando, Florida. Halley, who survives largely on welfare, has little respect for people, especially those who cross her, an attitude that she has passed down to Moonee, who runs free and out of control with her friends most of the time.

PG

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.

PG

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.

PG

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.

NR,

would be R

For My Brother (For Min Brors Skyld). (2014) Elias Munk, Christopher Friis Jensen, Allan Karlsen, Frank Schiellerup, Oliver Bjørnholdt Spottag, Lara León, Tina Nørby. Written and directed by Brian Bang. Danish teenager Aske has been abused by his pedophile uncle and widower father since he was a boy, forced to appear in pornographic videos shot by his father. Desperate to keep his bullied younger brother Bastien safe from his father’s abuse, he clings to him to the detriment of his schoolwork and friends, escaping reality in a world of fairy tales. In Danish with English subtitles.

PG-13

The Forger. (2012) Josh Hutcherson, Hayden Panettiere, Alfred Molina, Lauren Bacall, Billy Boyd, Dina Eastwood, Scott Eastwood. Directed by Lawrence Roeck. Joshua, a teenager who is a talented artist is abandoned by his mother in Carmel, California. Homeless and despondent, he accidentally wanders into the lucrative world of high end art forgery.

NR,

would be PG

Forsvundet til Halloween (Missing for Halloween) aka The Seekers: Thrill Night. (2021) Hannah Glem Zeuthen, Storm Exner Fjæstad, Katinka Evers-Jahnsen, Max Kaysen Høyrup, Jakob Fauerby, Marijana Jankovic. Directed by Philip Th. Pedersen. On Halloween, estranged friends Asger and Esther, must work together to rescue Asger’s kidnapped sister Petra, while Petra battles the thieves that grabbed her. In Danish with English subtitles.

NR,

would be R

Found. (2013) Gavin Brown, Ethan Philbeck, Phyllis Munroe, Louis Lawless, Alex Kogin. Directed by Lawrence Roeck. A fifth grader who is grappling with bullies at school, parents who don’t understand him, and friends who are deserting him has an additional burden: he discovers that his older brother is a serial killer! (limited release)

PG

PG-13

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.

PG

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.

Frankie Go Boom. (2012) Charlie Hunnam, Chris O’Dowd, Lizzy Caplan, Ron Perlman, Chris Noth. Written and directed by Jordan Roberts. Frank Bartlett has been tortured, embarrassed, and humiliated by his brother Bruce — usually on film — his entire life. Now that Bruce is finally off drugs and has turned his life around, things should be different. But they are not after Bruce shoots and uploads a video of Frank having a disasterous one night stand in this outrageous comedy about brotherly hate, amateur porn, and the dangers of online fame.

Freaky Friday. (2018) Cozi Zuehlsdorff, Heidi Blickenstaff, Jason Maybaum, Alex Désert, Ricky He, Kahyun Kim. Directed by Steve Carr. Disney remake of the musical about what happens when a mom and daughter argue, get their bodies magically switched, and must make it through the day being the other at high school or preparing for the next-day wedding—while hoping to switch back.

R

Freddy’s Dead. (1991) Robert Englund, Lisa Zane, Shon Greenblatt, Lezlie Deane, Ricky Dean Logan, Breckin Meyer, Yaphet Kotto, Roseanne Barr, 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.

NR,

would be PG

F.R.E.D.I. (2018) Lucius Hoyos, Reid Miller, Casimere Joliette, Kelly Hu, Angus MacFadyen, Tyler Christopher, Christina Cox, Texas Battle. Directed by Sean Olsen. A teenager makes the discovery of a lifetime in the forest behind his Arkansas home, a friendly robot named F.R.E.D.I. But soon he and his friends are pursued by the developers who desperately want it back.

PG-13

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, Giovannie Samuels, Ahn Tuan Nguyen. 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.

PG-13

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.

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