JOHNNY BE GOOD (1988)

 

Directed by: Bud S. Smith

Starring: Anthony Michael Hall, Robert Downey Jr, Uma Thurman, Paul Gleason, Steve James, Jennifer Tilly, Jim McMahon, Howard Cosell, Seymour Cassel, Michael Greene, Marshall Bell, Deborah May, Michael Alldredge, Jon Stafford, Peter Koch, John Pankow, Robert Downey Sr.

91 minutes

(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, sports violence, some nudity)

PLOT:

It's recruiting time and despite being short and scrawny, Johnny Walker is America's hottest young football prospect. His dilemma: should he take one of the many offers from college talent scouts or should he attend the local state college with his girlfriend and give up his football career?

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REINDEER GAMES (2000)

 




















Directed by: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Ben Affleck, Gary Sinise, Charlize Theron, Dennis Farina, James Frain, Donal Logue, Danny Trejo, Clarence Williams III, Isaac Hayes, Dana Stubblefield, Gordon Tootoosis, Lonny Chapman, Ron Jeremy, Ashton Kutcher

104 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, brief nudity)

PLOT:
After assuming his dead cell-mate's identity to get with the other man's girlfriend, an ex-convict finds himself a reluctant participant in a casino heist.

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THE RED BALLOON (1956)

 

Directed by: Albert Lamorisse

Starring: Pascal Lamorisse

34 minutes

(NR - suitable for all ages)

Country of origin: France

PLOT:

A boy makes friends with a seemingly sentient red balloon, and it begins to follow him. It follows him to the bus stop, to school, and to church. They play together in the streets of Paris and try to elude a gang of boys that wants to steal it.

HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS (2022)

 




















Directed by: Mike Cheslik
Starring: Ryland Brickson Cole Tews, Olivia Graves, Wes Tank, Doug Mancheski, Luis Rico

108 minutes
(NR - slapstick violence)

PLOT:
In this 19th century, supernatural winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America's greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.

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TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962)

 

Directed by: Robert Mulligan

Based on the novel by: Harper Lee

Screenplay by: Horton Foote

Starring: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford, John Megna, Frank Overton, Rosemary Murphy, Ruth White, Brock Peters, Robert Duvall, Estelle Evans, Paul Fix, Collin Wilcox, James Anderson, Alice Ghostley, William Windom, Crahan Denton, Richard Hale, Paulene Myers, Jamie Forster, Steve Condit, David Crawford, Kim Hamilton, Dan White, Kelly Thordsen, William "Bill" Walker, Charles Fredericks, Guy Wilkerson, Jay Sullivan, Jester Hairston, Hugh Sanders, Kim Stanley

129 minutes

(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:

Against the backdrop of the Great Depression, and with America struggling to find its feet, the widowed father and fiercely principled lawyer, Atticus Finch, is left all alone to care for his two children: Jem and Scout. When the young black worker, Tom Robinson, is wrongfully accused of sexually assaulting Mayella Ewell, a white woman living in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama, Atticus decides to take his case and defend him in court, turning his fellow townspeople against him. Suddenly, Atticus and his young children find themselves targeted by the local community, which seems unable to forgive and forget. But this is a matter of justice and not the color of one's skin. Will impartiality and reason prevail?

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BOYS BEWARE (1961)

 















Directed by: Sid Davis
Narrated by: Timothy Farrell

10 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
This anti-homosexual social "scare" short film focuses on the dangers of young boys talking to strangers.

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RUNNING WITH SCISSORS (2006)

 

Directed by: Ryan Murphy

Based on the memoirs of: Augusten Burroughs

Starring: Joseph Cross, Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Evan Rachel Wood, Alec Baldwin, Jill Clayburgh, Gwyneth Paltrow, Gabrielle Union, Patrick Wilson, Kristin Chenoweth, Dagmara Dominczyk, Colleen Camp, Jack Kaeding, Augusten Burroughs

116 minutes

(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, elements of sexuality, substance abuse)

PLOT:

The story of how a boy was abandoned by his mother and how he, later, abandoned her. The year he'll be 14, the parents of Augusten Burroughs divorce, and his mother, who thinks of herself as a fine poet on the verge of fame, delivers him to the eccentric household of her psychiatrist, Dr. Finch. During that year, Augusten avoids school, keeps a journal, and practices cosmetology. His mother's mental illness worsens, he takes an older lover, he finds friendship with Finch's younger daughter, and he's the occasional recipient of gifts from an unlikely benefactor. Can he survive to come of age?

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