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Recent and classic films where chucks have a role. . . .

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These true friends always wear high top chucks.

Films on this page:

Tainá 2: The Adventure Continues, Tall Story, A Talking Pony!?!, Tank, Teen Beach Movie, Teenage Dream, Terminal Error, TerrorVision, Teufels Kicker (Devil’s Kickers), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, That Was Then . . . This Is Now, There’s Something In The Lake, They Are Among Us, They Reach, Thrashin’, The Thief Lord, Thirteen, 3 Ninjas (now on the # films page), 3 Ninjas Kick Back (now on the # films page, Three Months, Three Wishes, Threesome, Thunderbirds, Tick Tick BOOM!, Tiger Heart, The Tiger Rising, Timecrafters: The Treasure of Pirate’s Cove, Timeline, Timemaster, Time Toys, Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made, To All The Boys I Loved Before, To All The Boys: P.S. I Still Love You, To All the Boys: Always and Forever, To Dance with the White Dog, Toen we van de Duitsers verloren, To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday, The Tolltaker, Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller, Toothless, Tortilla Soup, Toy Soldiers, Trading Mom, Trainspotting, Transcendence, Trapped, The Treasure of the White Falcons, The Tree of Life, Tremors, Tremors: Shrieker Island, T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous, Trick or Treat, Troup Zero, The True Adventures of Wolfboy, True Crime, True Friends, Tschick, Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie, Turbulence, The Turning, 25 Hill (now on the # films page), Twice Dead, Twilight Zone — The Movie, Twin Sitters, Twins, Twister, Two-Bits & Pepper, 2 Fast 2 Furious (now on the # films page), 2012 (now on the # films page).

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Taina 2 cover cover

3 chucksrating

NR,

would be PG

Tainá 2: The Adventure Continues. (2004) Eunice Baía, Vitor Morosini, Ruy Polanah, Arilene Rodrigues, Aramis Trindade, Roney Villela. Directed by Mauro Lima. In the Amazon jungle, the young warrior indian Tainá battles against animal poachers, and is joined by Carlito, a boy from the big city searching for his lost dog, and Catiti, a young girl from her tribe who wants to follow her steps as a protector of the jungle. In Portuguese with English subtitles.

Categories: Family, Action/Adventure, Fantasy.

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Tall Story cover

3 chucksrating

NR,

would be PG-13

Tall Story. (1960) Anthony Perkins, Jane Fonda, Ray Walston, Marc Connelly, Anne Jackson. Directed by Joshua Logan. Jane Fonda makes her film debut as June Ryder, a young coed matriculating at Custer College. She isn’t going to college to study curriculum, but instead has a “master plan” to become romantically involved with Custer’s star basketball player Ray Blent.

Categories: Comedy, Romance.

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A Talking Pony cover

2 chucks rating

NR,

would be PG

A Talking Pony!?! (2013) Jason Faunt, Kristine DeBell, Jenny Cipolla, Max Gray Wilbur, Dillon Olney, James Lastovic. Directed by David DeCoteau. Since her father died, 16-year-old Juliet, her stepmother and two stepbrothers have struggled financially to keep their ranch. A financier from the city wants to buy the property and build a shopping center there. But Juliet thinks she has a secret that could keep the ranch open: her horse, Horatio, can talk!

Category: Comedy.

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Tank cover

2 chucks rating

PG

Tank. (1984) James Garner, C. Thomas Howell, G. D. Spradin, Shirley Jones, Jenilee Harrison. Directed by Marvin Chomsky. An Army Sergeant Major who has been transferred to a base next to a small Georgia town to finish out the last two years of his military career gets into a fight in a bar with a local deputy sheriff for slapping around a young girl, who actually is a prostitute, that he had been innocently talking to. This leads to a run-in with the local sheriff who cannot handle anyone from the outside interfering with his dictatorial control over the town.

Category: Drama.

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Teenage Dream cover

3 chucksrating

NR,

would be PG

Teen Beach Movie. (2013) Ross Lynch, Maia Mitchell, Gracie Gillam, Garrett Clayton, John DeLuca, Chrissie Fit, Suzanne Cryer, Barry Bostwick, Kevin Chamberlin, Steve Valentine, Jordan Fisher, Kent Boyd, Mollee Gray, William T. Loftis. Directed by Jeffrey Hornaday. Two surfing lovers, whose doomed relationship is nearing to a close, find themselves swept into a dimension-traversing wave that sends them into Wet Side Story, a beach movie musical in the 60’s.

Categories: Comedy, Musical, Fantasy.

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Teenage Dream cover

2 chucks rating

R

Teenage Dream. (1986) Olivia D’Abo, Keanu Reeves, Rita Tushingham, Jessica Steen, Renee Murphy, Sean McCann, Samantha Langevin. Directed by Paul Lynch. Robin Crews, a high school gymnastics athlete, is trying to cope with her mom who is dying a step dad from hell, a sports injury that will not heal, while preparing for a major competition. Through the love of her boyfriend, Tommy, and the “eye of the tiger”, she rises to overcome all of her trials and tribulations.

Categories: Drama, Sports, Romance.

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Terminal Error cover

2.5 chucks rating
PG-13

Terminal Error. (2002) Michael Nouri, Marina Sirtis, Matthew Ewald, Timothy Busfield. Directed by John Murlowski. A bitter former partner takes revenge on a computer security systems CEO by tricking his son into introducing a virus into their software. But the virus evolves into a deadly force with its own agenda: destroy mankind by spreading panic and destruction.

Categories: Action/Adventure, Science Fiction/Fantasy.

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TerrorVision cover

2 chucks rating

R

TerrorVision. (1986) Diane Franklin, Gerrit Graham, Mary Woronov, Jennifer Richards, Chad Allen, Bert Remsen, Randi Brooks, Sonny Carl Davis, Jon Gries. Directed by Ted Nicolau. A swinging couple from the eighties is oblivious to the fact that their new sattelite TV system is receiving signals from another planet, allowing it to become a passageway to earth for a hungry alien monster. Only their 12-year-old son Chad is aware of the danger, and they don’t believe him.

Categories: Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction/Fantasy.

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Devil's Kickers cover

3 chucksrating

NR,

would be PG

Teufels Kicker (Devil’s Kickers). (2010) Henry Horn, Cosima Henman, Dario Flick, Marvin Schlatter, Diana Amft, Benno Fürmann, Reiner Schöne, Kaan Aydogdu, Yassine Gourar, Sammy Scheuritzel, Tim Troeger. Directed by Granz Henman. When Moritz parents split up, he and his rather eccentric, “no idea about soccer” mother have to move in with his grumpy grandpa Rudi, far away from his home, friends and his beloved football club. Despite rejection by the local club in his new town, Moritz succeeds in setting up a new team and signs them up for the upcoming championship.

Categories: Sports, Comedy, Family.

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre cover

1.5 chucks rating
R

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. (2003) Jessica Biel, Jonathan Tucker, Erica Leerhsen, Mike Vogel, Eric Balfour, Andrew Bryniarsky, Lee Ermey. Directed by Marcus Nispel. A psychotic killer runs rampant due to a serious face deformity, terrorizing a group of friends passing through a small Texas town in this remake of the orginal horror classic.

Categories: Horror, Crime and Mystery.

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That Was Then... This Is Now cover

3 chucksrating

R

That Was Then... This Is Now. (1985) Emilio Estevez, Craig Sheffer, Frank Howard, Kim Delaney, Barbara Babcock and Morgan Freeman. Directed by Christopher Cain. Two teenagers, Mark Jennings and Brian Douglas, raised in the Los Angeles area as brothers by Brian’s widowed mother, have been best friends and borderline delinquents, hanging out in the local ’hood, with Mark usually being the instigator of petty crimes like “borrowing” a car for joyriding, and constantly fighting with rival teens to maintain a tough street presence. But when Brian gets a job and then meets and starts dating Kathy Carlson, he is no longer interested in spending all of his time hanging out with Mark. Mark still wants to lead the delinquent life, and he is jealous of Brian’s interest in Kathy, making his displeasure known on a regular basis.

Categories: Drama, Coming of Age, Crime and Mystery.

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There's something in the Lake cover

2.5 chucks rating

NR,

would be PG

There’s Something In The Lake. (2021) Esther Jane Pope, Asher Trosdal, Ty Trosdal, Micah Pope, Annabelle Gaut, Tom Smith, Riley Costello. Written and directed by Greg Pope. A 13-year-old girl and her two friends fall asleep watching a monster movie and are literally sucked into its world.

Categories: Science Fiction/Fantasy, Family Grade Horror.

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They Are Among Us cover

2 chucks rating

R

They Are Among Us. (2004) Alison Eastwood, Michael di Lallo, Corbin Bernsen, Bruce Boxleitner, Michael Orr Hughs, Alison Eastwood. Directed by Jeffrey Obrow. Right before Danny’s eighteenth birthday his mother and father start acting strangely and Danny knows something is up. He soon learns that one parent is a human and the other is an alien, part of a colony living in their small town, who have disguised themselves to look like humans.

Categories: Science Fiction/Fantasy, Horror, Action/Adventure.

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They Reach cover

2.5 chucks rating

NR,

would be PG-13

They Reach. (2020) Mary Madaline Roe, Morgan Chandler, Eden Campbell, Kyan Zielinski, Elizabeth Rhoades, Ash Calder, Frederick Floyd, Taylor Bartle, Damian Vines. Written and directed by Sylas Dall. A young girl stumbles upon a possessed tape player. By turning it on, she unknowingly unleashes a demonic entity that haunts her family while slowly dragging the small town of Clarkston to Hell.

Categories: Horror, Action/Adventure.

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Thrashin' cover

3 chucksrating

PG-13

Thrashin’. (1986) Josh Brolin, Robert Rusler, Pamela Gidley, Brooke McCarter, Josh Richman, Brett Marx, David Wagner, Chuck McCann, Tony Alva, Mark Munski. Directed by David Winters. A skateboarding tribute to West Side Story about a champion skateboarder who falls in love with the sister of the leader of a rival gang. Nearly all of the characters wear high top chucks, and there are lots of closeup shots during skateboarding sequences.

Categories: Drama, Action/Adventure, Romance, Teenagers.

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The Thief Lord cover

3 chucksrating

PG

The Thief Lord. (2006) Rollo Weeks, Aaron Johnson, Jasper Harris, Alice Connor, George McKay, Lathaniel Dyer. Directed by Richard Klaus. Two orphaned boys escape from their mean aunt and go to Venice, where they meet up with Scipio, the “Thief Lord” who helps them and other abandoned kids hide from the authorities and support themselves through petty thievery.

Categories: Action/Adventure, Family.

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Thirteen cover

2 chucks rating

R

Thirteen. (2003) Holly Hunter, Evan Rachel Wood, Nicki Reed, Jeremy Sisto, Brady Corbet. Directed by Catherine Hardwicke. Determined to belong to the “in” crowd when some girls in her middle school make fun of her dress, thirteen year old Tracy puts her mother. family. and friends through hell when she embraces drugs, sex, and petty crime in order to befriend Evie, the most popular girl in school.

Categories: Drama, Coming of Age.

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Three Months cover

3 chucksrating

NR,

would be R

Three Months. (2022) Troye Sivan, Viveik Kalra, Brianne Tju, Ellen Burstyn, Louis Gossett Jr., Judy Greer, Amy Landecker, Javier Muñoz, Steven Sean Garland, Scott Daniel Johnson. Written and directed by Jared Frieder. Coming-of-age film about Caleb, a South Florida teen. On the eve of his high school graduation, everything changes when hes exposed to HIV. While he waits three months for his results, he finds love in the most unlikely of places. Closeup shots of Calebs extensively drawn-on optical white high top chucks are a significant part of the cinematography in this film. (This adds an extra 1/2 chuck to its rating.) Click here to see photo gallery of these shots.

Categories: Drama, Coming of Age, Sexually Explicit.

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Three Wishes cover

3 chucksrating

PG

Three Wishes. (1995) Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Patrick Swayze, Joseph Mazzello, Seth Mumy. Directed by Martha Coolidge. Jeanne, whose husband was a MIA pilot in the Korean War (and presumed dead) is struggling to raise her two sons Tommy and Gunny during the mid 50’s. Jeanne is at crossroads in her life: she would like to start her own business but doesn’t really know how to go about doing that and is also considering re-marrying so that her kids will again have a father at home. Into this scenario comes a drifter named Jack and his dog, who Jeanne literally runs into with her car and breaks his ankle. Although warned against it, she impulsively invites him to stay at their house until his ankle is healed and the whole family is soon affected by his non-conformist thinking and attitudes.

Categories: Drama, Family.

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Threesome cover

3 chucksrating

R

Threesome. (1994) Josh Charles, Lara Flynn Boyle, and Stephen Baldwin. Directed by Andrew Fleming. Eddy and Stuart are two college freshmen living in the same dorm suite. Stuart is expert at partying and shows Eddy how drink and pick up girls, while the cerebral and introspective Eddy does their homework and keeps the room clean. Things get complicated, however, when a beautiful girl named Alex is mistaken for a male by the college housing board and assigned to their room. A bureaucratic snafu prevents a simple resolution to the situation, and Alex has no choice but to stay. A strange triangle soon develops. Alex becomes infatuated with Eddy, Stuart develops a crush Alex, and Eddy begins to recognize that he is attracted to Stuart.

Categories: Drama, Sexually Explicit.

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Thunderbirds cover

2 chucks rating

PG

Thunderbirds. (2004) Brady Corbet, Debora Weston, Soren Fulton, Bill Paxton, Anthony Edwards, Sophia Myles, Ben Kingsley. Directed by Jonathan Frakes. When The Hood finds and invades International Rescue’s secret base and traps most of the Tracy family, only young Alan Tracy and his friends can save the day.

Categories: Action/Adventure, Family.

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Thunderbirds cover

PG-13

Tick Tick BOOM! (2021) Andrew Garfield, Alexandra Shipp, Robin de Jesus, Vanessa Hudgens, Joshua Henry, Jonathan Marc Sherman, Michaela Jaé (MJ) Rodriguez, Ben Ross, Judith Light, Bradley Whitford. Directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda. On the cusp of his 30th birthday, a promising young theater composer navigates love, friendship and the pressures of life as an artist in New York City.

Categories: Drama, Musical.

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Tiger Heart cover

2 chucks rating

PG-13

Tiger Heart. (1995) T. J. Roberts, Jennifer Lyons, Robert LaSardo, Rance Howard, Timothy Williams, Carol Potter. Directed by Georges Chamchoum. Before heading off to college, Eric is looking forward to a summer of relaxation, polishing his karate skills, pool parties, and girls. But when some goons hired by a developer who wants to take over the neighborhood harass his girl friend, Eric soon finds himself in a war where there may be no survivors.

Categories: Action/Adventure, Romance, Teenagers.

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The Tiger Rising cover

2.5 chucks rating

PG

The Tiger Rising. (2022) Christian Convery, Sam Trammell, Nicholas Ryan Hernandez, Jayden Fontaine, Madalen Mills, Katharine McPhee, Queen Latifah, Dennis Quaid. Written and directed by Ray Giarratana. A young boy discovers a caged tiger in the woods near his home.

Category: Family.

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Timecrafters cover

2.5 chucks rating

NR,

would be PG

Timecrafters: The Treasure of Pirate’s Cove. (2020) Denise Richards, Malcolm McDowell, Eric Balfour, Casey Simpson, Maddie McCormick, Paul Sampson, Lucas Jaye, Connor Cain, Lew Temple. Directed by Rick Spalla. Time traveling pirates searching for lost treasure end up in the modern world and take on a group of kids who have discovered the treasure first.

Categories: Action/Adventure, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Family.

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Timeline cover

2 chucks rating

PG-13

Timeline. (2003) Paul Walker, Frances O’Connor, Gerard Butler, Ethan Embry, Billy Connelly. Directed by Richard Donner. A group of archeology students must travel to the past to rescue their professor from a war zone in 14th century France.

Categories: Action/Adventure, Science Fiction/Fantasy.

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Timemaster cover

2 chucks rating

PG-13

Timemaster. (1995) Jesse Cameron-Glickenhaus, Pat Morita, Joanne Pacula, Duncan Regehr, Michael Dorn, Michele Williams. Directed by James Glickenhaus. In the year 2006, “collectors” travel through space and time to gather human contestants for virtual reality games that will affect the destiny of entire worlds. When a disenchanted collector meets an orphaned young boy who is determined to find a better life for himself, he decides to help the boy by revealing the secret of time travel.

Categories: Action/Adventure, Science Fiction/Fantasy.

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Time Toys cover

2.5 chucks rating

NR,

would be PG

Time Toys. (2016) Griffin Cleveland, Jaden Betts, J.J. Totah, Samuel Gilbert, Mackenzie Aladjem, Ed Begley Jr., Greg Germann, Parvesh Cheena, Rob Van Dam, Dalton Cyr, Evan Roe. Directed by Mark Rosman. A group of middle school kids stumble upon a chest full of incredible toys from the future. The discovery takes them on an adventure using their newfound toys to save their neighborhood and ultimately the world from a maniacal corporate madman.

Categories: Science Fiction, Family.

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timmy Failure cover

2.5 chucksrating

PG

Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made. (2020) Winslow Fegley, Ophelia Lovibond, Wallace Shawn, Craig Robinson, Kyle Bornheimer, Ai-Chan Carrier, Chloe Coleman, Kei. Written and directed by Tom McCarthy. An 11-year-old boy who believes that he is the best detective in town runs the agency Total Failures with his best friend, an imaginary 1,500 pound polar bear.

Categories: Family, Fantasy.

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To All The boys I Loved Before cover

3 chucksrating

TV-14

To All The Boys I Loved Before. (2018) Lana Condor, Noah Centineo, Israel Broussarde, Anna Cathcart, Andrew Bachelor, Janel Parrish. Directed by Susan Johnson. A teenage girl’s secret love letters are exposed and wreak havoc on her love life.

Categories: Romance, Drama.

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To All The Boys 2 cover2.5 chucks rating

TV-14

To All The Boys: P.S. I Still Love You. (2020) Lana Condor, Noah Centineo, Jordan Fisher, Anna Cathcart, Ross Butler, Janel Parrish. Directed by Michael Fimognari. Lara Jean and Peter have just taken their relationship from pretend to officially official when another recipient of one of her old love letters enters the picture.

Categories: Romance, Drama.

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To All The Boys 3: Always and Foever cover2.5 chucks rating

TV-14

To All The Boys: Always and Forever. (2021) Lana Condor, Noah Centineo, Anna Cathcart, Ross Butler, Janel Parrish. Directed by Michael Fimognari. Senior year of high school takes center stage as Lara Jean returns from a family trip to Korea and considers her college plans — with and without Peter.

Categories: Romance, Drama.

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To Dance with the White Dog cover

3.5 chucks rating

PG

To Dance with the White Dog. (1993) Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Christine Baranski, Terry Beaver, Harley Cross, Esther Rolle, Frank Whaley. Directed by Glenn Jordan. After fifty years of marriage, Sam Peek loses his beloved wife, Cora, and no amount of fussing by his overprotective children is going to ease Sam’s loneliness or failing health until one day a beautiful white appears out of nowhere and brings positive change to his life. The only problem — no one else can see it except his grandson, Bobby.

Categories: Drama, Family.

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Toen we van de Duitsers verloren cover

Not Rated

Toen we van de Duitsers verloren. (2023) Kylian de Pagter, Rein Hoeke, Juda Goslinga, Peter Blok, Sanne Vogel, Susanne Wolff. Written and directed by Guido van Driel. Summer, 1974. It is the day after the lost World Cup final between Germany and the Netherlands. The streets are quiet and the city is hungover. Jonas runs into Daan and although they are not friends, they hang out together on this dull summer day. After all, they are both looking for their classmate Karsten, each with their own reason. Meanwhile, Catootje’s disappearance hangs over the boys like a dark cloud. In Dutch, September, 2023 release.

Category: Drama.

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To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday cover

3 chucksrating

PG-13

To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday. (1996) Peter Gallagher, Michelle Pfeiffer, Claire Danes, Laruie Fortier, Wendy Crewson, Bruce Altman, Kathy Baker, Freddie Prinze, Jr.. Directed by Michael Pressman. David Lewis is a grieving widower who still continues to “see” his late wife two years after her death, leaving his neglected daughter behind as he withdraws further into his fantasy world. Hoping to help him, his meddling in-laws bring a surprise blind date along for a weekend at David’s beach house.

Categories: Drama, Romance, Family.

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The Tolltaker poster

3 chucksrating

PG-13

The Tolltaker. (2009) Cullen Flynn Clancey, Margaret Spirito, Andrew Eli, Mark Jacobson, Michael Bradley, Jan-David Soutar. Written and directed by Steve Janas. Eight-year-old Bobby Burke clings to the belief that his father, MIA in Vietnam for three years, will eventually come home as long as he continues to wear his Safekeeper bracelet with his father’s name engraved on it. The reality of things is different, as Bobby discovers when he enters the underground domain of the Tolltaker.

Categories: Short Film, Drama, Fantasy, Coming of Age.

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Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller cover

3 chucksrating

G

Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller. (1987) Lucas Evans, Anthony Rogers, Jill Stanley, Andrew Whitehead, Paul Popovich. Directed by Michael Rubbo. This Canadian family classic with a stamp collecting theme is filled with great chucks shots. Ralph and Tommy, the two main characters, wear them during most of the film and chucks even appear on stamps when Ralph and Tommy go stamp traveling.

Categories: Family, Comedy, Science Fiction/Fantasy.

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Toothless cover

3 chucksrating

G

Toothless. (1997) Kirstie Alley, Ross Malinger, Daryl “Chill” Mitchell, Kathryn Zaremba, Marcus Toji, Melanie Mayron, Lynn Redgrave, Kaley Couco. Directed by Melanie Mayron. A lonely, self-centered dentist who meets an untimely death, discovers that in order to enter heaven, she must perform community service as the tooth fairy. Breaking the rules by talking to the kids she sees and giving them advice along with their tooth money, soon other kids start pulling their teeth to cash in.

Categories: Comedy, Family.

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Tortilla Soup cover

3 chucksrating

PG-13

Tortilla Soup. (2001) Hector Elizondo, Jacqueline Obradors, Tamara Mello, Constance Marie, Nikolai Kinski, Paul Rodriguez, Elizabeth Pena, Racquel Welch. Directed by Martin Ripoli. A widower who is the retired chef of a very successful restaurant tries to steer his three daughters in the right direction as they seek their independence and the right men to be their husbands. You should check out this movie just for the culinary content.

Categories: Comedy, Family, Romance.

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Toy Soldiers cover

3 chucksrating

R

Toy Soldiers. (1991) Sean Astin, Wil Wheaton, Keith Coogan, Andrew Divoff, R. Lee Ermey, Mason Adams, Denholm Elliott, Jerry Orbach, Louis Gosset, Jr. Directed by Daniel Petrie, Jr. When an exclusive boarding school is taken hostage by South American terrorists, the rebillious students risk their lives in a desperate, deadly campaign to stop them.

Categories: Drama, Action/Adventure.

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Trading Mom cover

1 chucks rating
PG

Trading Mom. (1994) Sissy Spacek, Anna Chlumsky, Maureen Stapleton, Andre the Giant. Directed by Tia Bellis. When three children, who are unhappy with their real mother complain to their friend, Mrs. Cavour, she tells them about an ancient magic spell that will allow them to go to the Mommy Market to select a new mother.

Categories: Comedy, Family.

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Trainspotting cover

3 chucksrating

R

Trainspotting. (1996) Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremer, Kevin McKidd, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle, Kelly MacDonald. Directed by Danny Boyle. Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, but his friends persuade him to get involved in one last score that will make them all rich. An amazing look at the world of heroin addiction.

Categories: Drama, Sexually Explicit.

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Transcendence poster

2 chucks rating

NR

Transcendence. (2014) Jeff Prewett, Libby West, Brandon Tyler Russell. Written and directed by Chris Mirjahangir. A family goes on vacation and comes across survivors of a demon attack.

Categories: Drama, Short, Horror.

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Trapped cover

2 chucks rating

R

Trapped. (2004) Charlize Theron, Courtney Love, Stuart Townsend, Kevin Bacon, Dakota Fanning. Directed by Luis Mandocki. When their daughter is abducted and held for ransom by a gang of serial kidnappers, a young doctor and his wife find themselves held hostage while a 24-hour plan to extort their money is set into motion.

Categories: Drama, Thriller, Crime and Mystery.

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Treqsure of the White Falcons cover

3 chucks rating

NR,

would be PG

The Treasure of the White Falcons, aka Der Schatz der weißen Falken. (2005) David Bode, Kevin Köppe, Tamino-Turgay, Victoria Scherer, Jannis Niewöhner, Christian Wimmer, Cornelia Schmaus. Written and directed by Christian Zübert. Three friends living in a small German town find a treasure map from the mysterious White Falcons, a juvenile gang whose leader disappeared ten years before. But to find it they must contend with a rival gang from a different neighborhood.

Categories: Family, Adventure.

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The Tree of Life cover

3 chucksrating

PG-13

The Tree of Life. (2011) Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Hunter McCracken, Jessica Chastain, Laramie Eppler, Tye Sheridan. Written and directed by Terrence Malick. The story of a family in Waco, Texas in 1956 as seen in flashback by the eldest son Jack, and in the context of the cosmos. Jack must deal with his parents’ conflicting ways of raising him and his siblings, and later must deal with the death of his younger brother R.L.

Categories: Drama, Fantasy.

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Tremors cover

3 chucksrating

PG

Tremors. (1989) Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Bobby Jacoby, Michael Gross, Reba McEntire, Arianna Richards. Directed by Ron Underwood. Two country handymen help a town of zany characters to safety when the town is under siege by giant man-eating creatures who live underground.

Categories: Drama, Action/Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction/Fantasy.

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Tremors: Shrieker Island cover

3.5 chucks rating

PG-13

Tremors: Shrieker Island. (2020) Michael Gross, Jon Heder, Richard Brake, Caroline Langrishe, Jackie Cruz, Cassie Clare, Sahajak Boonthanakit, Matthew Douglas. Written and directed by Don Michael Paul. When a group of hunters genetically modify Graboid eggs, they face an all-out war against the larger, terrifyingly intelligent Graboids, and the swiftly multiplying Shriekers. The campy end to the Tremors series with an extra half chuck in the rating for all the great chucks footage.

Categories: Comedy, Action/Adventure, Science Fiction/Fantasy.

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T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous cover

2 chucks rating

NR,

would be G

T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous. (1998) Peter Horton, Liz Stauber, Karl Coleman, Laurie Murdoch, Tuck Milligan. Directed by Brett Leonard. The incredible realm of dinosaurs comes alive when teenager Ally Hayden plunges through time and becomes an eyewitness to the primeval era of Hadrosaurs and Tyrannosaurus Rex. (DVD adaption from I-Max digital)

Categories: Drama, Family

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Trick or Treat cover

2 chucks rating

R

Trick or Treat. (1986) Marc Price, Tony Fields, Lisa Orgolini, Doug Savant, Elaine Joyce, Glen Morgan, Gene Simmons, Ozzy Osbourne, Elise Richards, Richard Pachorek. Directed by Charles Martin Smith. Eddie Weinbauer is a teenager obsessed with the heavy metal music of rock star Sammi Curr. When Curr is killed in a hotel fire, Eddie becomes the receipient of the only copy of Curr’s unreleased album, which when played backwards sends a message of destruction. Eddie uses the message to gain revenge on other teens at school who have been harrassing him, but soon realizes that he has unleashed a supernatural evil power.

Category: Horror.

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Troup Zero cover

3 chucksrating

PG-13

Troup Zero. (2019) Mckenna Grace, Viola Davis, Jim Gaffigan, Allison Janney, Charlie Shotwell, Milan Ray, Johanna Colón, Bella Higginbotham. Directed by Bert & Bertie. In rural 1977 Georgia, a misfit girl dreams of life in outer space. When a national competition offers her a chance at her dream, to be recorded on NASA's Golden Record, she recruits a makeshift troop of Birdie Scouts with other misfits to be able to enter the competition..

Categories: Comedy, Family.

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3 chucksrating

PG-13

The True Adventures of Wolfboy. (2019) Jaeden Martell, Eve Hewson, Chloë Sevigny, John Turturro, Chris Messina, Stephen Henderson, Sophie Giannamore. Directed by Martin Krejcí. Thirteen-year-old Paul lives an isolated life with his father in upstate New York due to a rare condition he has known as congenital hypertrichosis — an affliction that causes an abnormal amount of hair growth all over his face and body. This causes most others to reject him as a freak. Then Paul receives a mysterious gift that compels him to run away and seek out the mother he has never known.

Categories: Drama, Crime, Adventure.

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True Crime cover

2.5 chucks rating
R

True Crime. (1996) Alicia Silverstone, Kevin Dillon, Bill Nunn, Michael Bowen, Ann Devaney, Joshua Shaefer. Directed by Pat Verducci. Mary Giordino, a high school senior fascinated with crime and detective work gets involved in solving the mysterious mutilation-murder of a young classmate at school. She teams up with a young police cadet in training, but is not sure of his motives after she finds incriminating evidence in his apartment.

Categories: Drama, Crime and Mystery, Action/Adventure.

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True Friends cover

2.5 chucks rating
R

True Friends. (1998) James Quattrochi, Loreto Mauro, Rodrigo Botero, Dan Lauria and Mackenzie Phillips, Kyle Gibson, Mario Rendon, Bryan Burke. Directed by James Quattrochi. Three young best friends live lives full of fun and mischief until they witness a local mob boss kill a man. Although they vow to keep it a secret, it eventually comes back to haunt them when they are adults.

Categories: Drama, Crime and Mystery.

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Tschick cover

3 chucks rating

NR,

would be PG-13

Tschick. (2016) Tristan Göbel, Anand Batbileg, Mercedes Muller, Aniya Wendel, Anja Schneider, Uwe Bohm. Directed by Fatih Akin. Two young teenage boys considered losers at their school steal a car and embark on a crazy road trip at the start of summer break.

Categories: Comedy, Drama, Coming of Age.

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Turbo cover

2 chucks rating

PG

Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie. (1997) Jason David Frank, Johnny Yong Bosch, Catherine Sutherland, Blake Foster, Nakia Burisse. Directed by Brian Spicer. It’s the Power Rangers to the rescue as they race to save the planet Earth from certain destruction at the hands of a ruthless band of evil space aliens.

Categories: Fantasy, Family, Action/Adventure.

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Turbulence cover

2.5 chucks rating

TV-14

Turbulence. (aka Flight 192) (2016) Dina Meyer, Nick Baillie, Cole Carter, Victoria Pratt, Justin Johnson, Kevin Interdonato, Brent A. McCoy. Written and directed by Nadeem Soumah. An FBI Agent’s family is taken hostage while she is on a flight to Washington, DC to prosecute a senator accused of murder. Now she is forced to make a decision that could cost her the lives of her husband and twelve-year-old son.

Categories: Crime/Mystery, Action/Adventure.

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The Turning cover

2 chucks rating

PG-13

The Turning. (2020) Mackenzie Davis, Finn Wolfhard, Brooklynn Prince, Barbara Marten, Joely Richardson, Kim Adis. Directed by Floria Sigismondi. In this modern remake of Henry James’ novella The Turn of the Screw, an inexperienced young governess is hired by an elderly housekeeper to care for Flora and Miles Fairchild, two orphaned kids from a very wealthy family living in an isolated mansion where strange spiritual happenings affect their lives.

Categories: Drama, Horror, Mystery.

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Twice Dead cover

2.5 chucks rating
R

Twice Dead. (1988). Tom Bresnahan, Jill Whitlow, Jonathan Chapin, Christopher Burgard, Sam Melville, Brooke Bundy, Todd Bridges. Written and directed by Bert L. Dragin. The Cates family is thrilled to learn they have inherited the old mansion of the deranged, stage actor, Tyler Walker. They arrive to discover that the mansion has turned into a playground for a local street gang. But the gang is not all the Cates children have to worry about as Tyler’s ghost makes it known he is not pleased with their intrusion.

Categories: Action/Adventure, Horror.

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Twilight Zone — The Movie cover

2 chucks rating

PG

Twilight Zone — The Movie (segment 3) (1983). Jeremy Licht, Kathleen Quinlan, Kevin McCarthy, Patricia Barry, William Schallert. Directed by Joe Dante. When Kathleen Quinlin is stranded, she seeks refuge at a strange household which is literally ruled by a child with the power to control adults, who refuses to let her leave.

Categories: Action/Adventure, Horror.

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Twin Sitters cover

1 chucks rating
PG-13

Twin Sitters. (1994) Peter Paul, David Paul, Christian Cousins, Joseph Cousins, Rena Sofer, Jared Martin. Directed by John Paragon. The Barbarian Brothers play a pair of body guards hired by a wealthy businessman to protect his twin sons while he testifies against the mob. But they get more than they bargained for when they get into a war with the spoiled kids to see who’s boss and the vengeful mob comes after the kids.

Categories: Comedy, Adventure.

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Twins cover

3.5 chucks rating

PG

Twins. (1988) Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Chloe Webb, Kelly Preston. Directed by Ivan Reitman. This comedy/adventure successfully pairs the unlikely combination of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny De Vito as two twin brothers who were created as part of a genetics experiment gone awry. After the two meet up, they end up going on the road, with Schwarzenegger on a mission to find their real mother and DeVito trying achieve a windfall from a stolen rocket he has gotten hold of by accident.

Categories: Comedy, Action/Adventure.

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Twister cover

2 chucks rating

PG

Twister. (1989) Harry Dean Stanton, Suzy Amis, Crispin Glover, Dylan McDermott, Lindsay Christman, Rena Sofer, Jared Martin. Directed by John Paragon. The Barbarian Brothers play a pair of body guards hired by a wealthy businessman to protect his twin sons while he testifies against the mob. But they get more than they bargained for when they get into a war with the spoiled kids to see who’s boss and the vengeful mob comes after the kids.

Categories: Comedy, Action/Adventure.

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Two-Bits & Pepper cover

1 chucks rating
PG

Two-Bits & Pepper. (1995) Joe Piscopo, Dennis Weaver, Lauren Eckstrom, Rachel Crane, Perry Stephens, Kathrin Lautner, shannon Gallant. Directed by Corey Michael Eubanks. “Comedy” about two bumbling kidnappers, two mouthy twelve-year-old girls, and two talking horses. Two bad!

Categories: Action/Adventure, Comedy, Family.

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