Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987)

Directors

Mike Newell

Cast

Jamie Lee Curtis, Gregory Peck, William Petersen, Lee Richardson

The story

Chuck Murdock, a 12-year-old boy from Montana and the son of a military jet pilot, becomes anxious after seeing a Minuteman missile on a school field trip, which is intensified by a nightmare of a fork dropping after being told that the speed and effectiveness would be done "before a dropped fork hits the floor". Chuck protests the existence of nuclear weapons by refusing to play baseball, which results in the forfeit of a Little League game by his team. "Amazing Grace" Smith, a fictional Boston Celtics player, catches a blurb about the story in his newspaper and decides to emulate Chuck, saying he will no longer participate in…

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