Amazing Grace and Chuck

Amazing Grace and Chuck

1987 · 114 min · EN · PG · 5.9 (20 votes)
Dir. Mike Newell · Starring Joshua Zuehlke, Alex English, Jamie Lee Curtis, William L. Petersen, Gregory Peck, Harvey Martin · Music Elmer Bernstein

“A boy raised a question, a man answered and the world paid attention.”

Drama

Average American boy Chuck Murdock goes on a school outing to a nuclear weapons facility, where he learns about the destructive power that sits at the fingertips of the military. Knowing that the world could end with the push of a button, he protests against nuclear war by walking out on his Little League team during a game. Chuck's stunt ends up in the local paper, and as the story snowballs, basketball star "Amazing Grace" Smith decides to boycott sports, too.

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