Every month Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment Inc., one of the largest providers of premium content to value-conscious consumers, brings you tons of new and old school full-length movies, TV shows and original programming, all for free on their ad-supported streaming platform. Whether you are seeking out a familiar favorite or on the prowl for something fresh and exciting, they have you covered.
This month the company has curated a great lineup of titles across its Redbox, Crackle, and Chicken Soup for the Soul free streaming services. Now available to stream, consumers can enjoy an exciting assortment of titles that will satisfy both sports fans and romantics (and everyone in between).
Check out an overview of your streaming options below!
Redbox
Well-known for being a destination for the latest entertainment, the Redbox app gives consumers access to free movies on demand, through free live TV channels, and for rental and purchase. It can be downloaded to Samsung TVs, Roku, LG TVs, VIZIO TVs, and many other devices. The titles available on Redbox include:
ROMCOMS
- Lars and the Real Girl starring Ryan Gosling (La La Land), Emily Mortimer (Don’t Look Deeper), Paul Schneider (American Crime Story). A delusional young man strikes up an unconventional relationship with a doll he finds on the Internet.
- Some Kind of Beautiful starring Pierce Brosnan (Black Adam), Salma Hayek (Frida), and Jessica Alba (Sin City). A drama about a Cambridge poetry professor who begins to re-evaluate his life of Byronic excess.
- Just Before I Go starring Seann William Scott (American Pie), Olivia Thirlby (Juno), Garret Dillahunt (12 Years a Slave). On the verge of giving up on life, a guy travels to his hometown to make amends.
- A Little Bit of Heaven starring Kate Hudson (Almost Famous), Gael Garcia Bernal (Mozart in the Jungle), Kathy Bates (American Horror Story). A woman who uses humor to avoid intimacy learns that she has a terminal illness in this dramatic comedy. With Kate Hudson, Peter Dinklage, Gael García Bernal, Lucy Punch and Whoopi Goldberg.
- The Ex starring Zach Braff (Scrubs), Amanda Peet (The Good Wife), Jason Bateman (Ozarks). After getting fired, a man winds up working for his wife’s father while she takes care of the baby.
FOOTBALL
- Touchback starring Kurt Russell (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood), Brian Presley (U.S.S. Indianapolis: Men of Courage), Melanie Lynskey (Yellowjackets). Former football star finds himself back in time before his career-ending injury. Seeking his mentor, he must decide whether to let fate unfold or change his future.
- Underdogs starring D.B. Sweeney (Two and a Half Men), William Mapother (Lost), Richard Portnow (Shameless). Set in rural Ohio, the birthplace of football, a small-town high school football team rises to play their cross-town rival, a perennial powerhouse, while standing up for an entire community.
- The 60 Yard Line starring Randall Park (WandaVision), Mindy Sterling (Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me), Chelsey Crisp (Fresh Off the Boat). Diehard Packers fan, Ben ‘Zagger’ Zagowski, buys a house in the parking lot of Lambeau Field and is forced to choose between a superfan lifestyle and his fiancé, Amy. Based on a true story, set during the 2009 football season.
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
- A Day in the Life starring Bokeem Woodbine (Spiderman: Homecoming), Omar Epps (House), Michael Rapaport (Only Murders in the Building). Bad blood between two urban crime families explodes into an all-out turf war in this gritty, hard-hitting drama set to rap and starring music legend Sticky Fingaz.
- Hurricane Season starring Forest Whitaker (Black Panther), Isaiah Washington (Grey’s Anatomy), Shad Moss (Scary Movie V). Al, a basketball coach at a New Orleans high school, finally has a winning team when Hurricane Katrina happens. He tries to build a winning team anew after the hurricane.
- The Long Walk Home starring Sissy Spacek (The Help), Whoopi Goldberg (Sister Act), Dwight Schultz (Star Trek: First Contact). Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott led by Martin Luther King.
Crackle
One of the most popular free streaming destinations, Crackle is available on devices that include Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung TVs, and VIZIO TVs. Titles streaming now include:
Television Series
- The Pinkertons starring Angus Macfadyen. A father and son team up with America’s first female detective to solve crimes in the Wild West.
- Happy Valley. Sarah Lancashire stars as Catherine Cawood, a police sergeant in a small town where drunkards, drug addicts and teenage pregnancies are a way of life. Her world is turned upside down when the man she thinks is responsible for her daughter’s death is released from prison.
- Everybody Hates Chris starring Tyler Williams (Abbott Elementary), Terry Crews (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), Tichina Arnold (Martin). Inspired by his childhood experiences, comedian Chris Rock narrates the hilarious, touching story of a teenager growing up as the eldest of three children in Brooklyn, New York during the early 1980’s.
- Alf starring Mihaly ‘Michu’ Meszaros (Big Top Pee Wee), Paul Fusco (Spacecats), Max Wright (The Drew Carey Show). The Tanner family is an average American family. One day, they discover that they have a visitor. He’s small, he’s furry, he’s arrogant, and he’s an alien from the planet Melmac.
- The Coroner starring Claire Goose (Murdoch Mysteries), Matt Bardock (Manhunt), Beatie Edney (Poldark). A high-flying lawyer returns, after a messy divorce, to the small town she escaped as a teenager to take up the post of Coroner. She finds herself thrown together with her old flame who broke her heart twenty years ago – now the local policeman – and they are forced to work together.
Exclusive Feature Film
- Vacation starring Ed Helms (The Office), Christina Applegate (Dead to Me), Skler Gisondo (Santa Clarita Diet). Rusty Griswold takes his own family on a road trip to “Walley World” in order to spice things up with his wife and reconnect with his sons.
- Break-Up Nightmare. A girl finds her life and dignity being destroyed by perverts and criminals on a pornographic website, so she decides to fight back, but she has no idea who to trust anymore.
Feature Film
- Godzilla Final Wars starring Rei Kikukawa (Asuko Machi), Masahiro Matsuoka (Kaseifu no Mitazono), Don Frye (Miami Vice). Giant monsters, including Rodan, Gigan and Mothra, are wreaking havoc around the world. Suddenly, a UFO appears and causes the monsters to vanish. Aboard the spaceship are Xilians, extraterrestrials who wants to help the human race defend itself from Gorath, a rogue planet on a collision course with Earth. M Organization soldier Shin’ich Ozaki, biologist Miyuki Otonashi and her TV reporter sister Anna soon determine Gorath’s a hologram and the Xilians are evil aliens who intend to conquer the Earth. Exposed, the Xilians unleash the monsters to destroy the planet. Racing to the South Pole, Captain Gordon frees Godzilla, mankind’s only hope to defeat the monsters and save the Earth.
- The Tender Trap starring Zara Cormack (The Brokenwood Mysteries), Katrina Danyluk (Hustle), Lisette de Jong (Shortland Street). In 2011 the startling news broke around New Zealand that Sharon Armstrong, a middle-aged grandmother and public servant who worked for the Māori Language Commission had been arrested in Argentina with 5kg of cocaine in her suitcase. Based on her published account, this is the story behind the romance scam that trapped Sharon in its net. This is a shocking story of unbelievable size and complexity. This is Sharon Armstrong’s story. In truth, it could happen to anyone.
- Preservation starring Wrenn Schmidt (For All Mankind), Pablo Schreiber (Halo), Aaron Staton (The Right Stuff). A psychological thriller set in the decaying sprawl of rural America. A camping trip for Mike and Wit takes an unexpected turn when they’re joined by Mike’s brother, Sean. A weekend in the woods becomes survival of the fittest.
Chicken Soup for the Soul
A premium free streaming TV network for content that – much like the best-selling books – inspires and warms the heart, Chicken Soup for the Soul is available now through the Redbox streaming app, Amazon Fire TV, VIZIO Watchfree+, and Plex. The titles that can be streamed this month include:
Chicken Soup for the Soul Original Series
- Wedding Talk Part 2 (Episodes 6-10) starring Tara Lipinski, Jove Meyer, and José Rolón. Olympic Gold Medalist and Olympic commentator Tara Lipinski hosts with José Rolón (New York’s famous José Rolón Events), wedding designer Jove Meyer (Top Planner by Harper’s Bazaar, Brides, and The Knot), join in a discussion of all things weddings. Wedding Talk uses stunning footage from LoveStoriesTV.com where the trio will dish on the destinations, décor and – of course – the dresses and every other element that makes the day momentous. This expert trio isn’t about dragging the newlyweds down the aisle; rather, this is a celebration of a couple’s ceremony, an examination of what’s hot and what’s not in the wedding industry today, and inspirational ideas for viewers to create their own dream day if they just open up their minds to all the possibilities.
Chicken Soup for the Soul Original Feature
- For the Love of Chocolate starring Rhiannon Fish (The 100), Jesse Hutch (Batwoman), Genevieve Buechner (Supernatural). Preparing for the annual Masters of Chocolate Festival, Aria’s plans are rattled when she loses her partner shortly before the festival. However, the dashing single father Rhett steps in just in time to help Aria find the winning ingredient. In their search, Aria and Rhett discover that the missing ingredient for the perfect chocolate is not so different than what they’ve been missing in their lives: a dash of love!
Television Series
- From Darkness starring Ann-Marie Duff (Shameless), Richard Rankin (Outlander), Johnny Harris (Medici). The discovery of four bodies and a killer’s chilling taunts draw a former detective back into the murder case that ended her career.
- Monarch of the Glen starring Alexander Morton (Valhalla Rising), Susan Hampshire (Midsomer Murders), Hamish Clark (Arrested Development). Archie Macdonald left the family home in Scotland nearly ten years ago and had no desire to return. When news of a family crisis reaches him he reluctantly heads to Glenbogle Castle.
- Houdini & Doyle starring Michael Weston (A Million Little Things), Stephen Mangan (The Split), Rebecca Liddiard (Frankie Drake Mysteries). In turn of the century London, an unlikely crime-solving pair emerges in Harry Houdini, the brash and boastful American escape artist, and Arthur Conan Doyle, the gentleman literary father of detective Sherlock Holmes. Each fiercely competitive with the other, Houdini and Doyle go to any lengths to prove the other wrong while investigating Scotland Yard’s most unsolvable crimes. Yet in the end, it is their reluctant teamwork that ultimately unravels the mystery behind each baffling case.
- Midsomer Murders starring John Nettles (French and Saunders), Jane Wymark (Poldark), Barry Jackson (Doctors). A veteran Detective Chief Inspector and his young Sergeant investigate murders around the regional community of Midsomer County.
- The Manns. Gospel icon Tamela Mann headlines this family-related reality series about the daily situations shared between herself, her husband, and their kids.
Feature Film
- Within These Walls starring Laura Dern (The White Lotus), Ellyn Burstyn (Requiem for a Dream), LaTanya Richardson Jackson (Blue Bloods). Imprisoned after a drug arrest and bitter from a life marred by tragedy, Joan Thomas wants nothing to do with the world around her. But when a nun with a tragic past invites Joan to participate in an inmate rehabilitation program-training dogs to care for the handicapped-she experiences the freeing power of unconditional love for the first time. Based on the story of Sister Pauline Quinn.
- Serious Moonlight starring Meg Ryan (Sleepless in Seattle), Timothy Hutton (American Crime), Kristin Bell (Gossip Girl). Things aren’t going exactly as planned for high-powered Manhattan lawyer Louise. Her husband of 13 years, Ian, announces that he’s leaving her for a younger woman.
- When Love Kills: The Falicia Blakely Story starring Lil Mama (All American), Lance Gross (House of Payne), Tami Roman (The Family Business). All Falicia ever wanted was a better life and she found it with Dino. He promised her the world and all she had to do for it was to kill.
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The Crackle Free Streaming App’s recent releases include the nuptials celebration series Wedding Talk, the second season of Crackle Original The Wall, the pet-centric lifestyle series Pet Caves, the award-winning BBC series Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman as well as season three of the award-winning series Going From Broke.
The Crackle, Redbox, and Chicken Soup for the Soul streaming services are currently distributed through over 140 touch points in the U.S. on platforms including Amazon Fire TV, Roku, Apple TV, Smart TVs (Samsung, LG, Vizio), gaming consoles (PlayStation and Xbox ), Plex, iOS and Android mobile devices and on desktops at Crackle.com and Redbox.com.
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