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Crackle & Chicken Soup For The Soul Announce June Free Streaming Offerings Including Work From Morgan Freeman & More

Crackle & Chicken Soup For The Soul Announce June Free Streaming Offerings Including Work From Morgan Freeman & More

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 range from exclusive television to mainstream favorites (and everything in between).

Check out an overview of your streaming options below!

Crackle

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:

Feature Film

  • The Healer starring Oliver Jackson-Cohen (The Haunting of Hill House), Jonathan Pryce (The Crown), Camilla Luddington (Grey’s Anatomy). A young man suddenly discovers that he has the gift of healing. As he tries to understand it and the new reality it offers, a teenage girl with terminal cancer unexpectedly shows him the way.
  • Romeo Is Bleeding starring Gary Oldman (The Professional), Lena Olin (Hunters). Gary Oldman delivers an uncanny performance (The New York Times) and Lena Olin is ‘the most astoundingly vicious and sexy female villain in movie history (Variety) in this spine-tingling, erotic film about a crooked cop and the sadistic hit woman who lures him into a lethal dance of deceit. 
  • A Guy Thing starring  Jason Lee (Almost Famous), Julia Stiles (10 Things I Hate About You), Selma Blair (Cruel Intentions). Paul Coleman is a good guy. When his friends throw him a wild bachelor party, he just wants to keep his conscience clean — which is why he’s shocked when he wakes up in bed with a beautiful girl named Becky and can’t remember the night before. Worse than that, she also happens to be his fiancee’s cousin. 
  • Feast of Love starring Morgan Freeman (The Shawshank Redemption), Greg Kinnear (As Good As It Gets), Alexa Davalos (The Man In the High Castle). A meditation on love and its various incarnations, set within a community of friends in Oregon. and is described as an exploration of the magical, mysterious and sometimes painful incarnations of love.
  • Tyrel starring Jason Mitchell (Straight Outta Compton), Christopher Abbott (Girls), Ann Dowd (Garden State). Tyler, a sole black man, attends an otherwise all-white weekend of drunken bro debauchery on a birthday trip to a cabin in the Catskills.
  • I Want Candy starring Carmen Electra (Scary Movie), Tom Riley (Da Vinci’s Demons), Tom Burke (The Musketeers). Joe and Baggy are two misfit English film school students whose first movie goes awry. Desperate to finance their flick, they turn to a porn producer who agrees to give them the money needed in exchange for the guys to cast a semi-retired adult film star named Candy.

Available 6/16

  • Black Death starring Eddie Redmayne (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them), Sean Bean (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings), Carice van Houten (Game of Thrones). Set during the time of the first outbreak of bubonic plague in England, a young monk is given the task of learning the truth about reports of people being brought back to life in a small village.
  • Nobody Walks starring John Krasinski (The Office), Olivia Thirlby (Juno), Rosemarie DeWitt (La La Land). Martine arrives in Los Angeles to stay in the pool house of a well-off, liberal family. Peter, the father, has agreed to help Martine complete sound design on her art film as a favor to his wife, Julie.
  • The Double starring Jessie Eisenberg (The Social Network), Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland), Wallace Shawn (The Princess Bride). Simon James (Eisenberg) is a timid office clerk working in an ominous government organization. He is overlooked by his boss (Wallace Shawn) and colleagues, scorned by his mother, and ignored by Hannah (Wasikowska), the lovely copy room girl he pines for.
  • Weirdsville starring Scott Speedman (Underworld), Wes Bentley (American Beauty), Taryn Manning (Orange is the New Black). A pair of slackers get in way over their heads when they try to dump the body of a dead girlfriend in the basement of a drive-in movie theater where a satanic cult performs ritual sacrifices.
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Available 6/23

  • Drinking Buddies starring Olivia Wilde (Babylon), Ron Livingston (Band of Brothers), Anna Kendrick (The Twilight Saga: New Moon). Luke and Kate are coworkers at a brewery who spend their nights drinking and flirting heavily. One weekend away together with their significant others proves who really belongs together and who doesn’t.

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:

Crackle Exclusive Feature Film

Available 6/13

  • Willy’s Wonderland starring Nicolas Cage (Con Air), Emily Tosta (Party of Five), Beth Grant (No Country For Old Men). A quiet drifter is tricked into a janitorial job at the now condemned Willy’s Wonderland. The mundane tasks suddenly become an all-out fight for survival against wave after wave of demonic animatronics. Fists fly, kicks land, titans clash — and only one side will make it out alive.

Available 6/15

  • Cryptid starring Nicholas Baroudi (Person of Interest), Ellen Adair (Homeland), Chopper Burnet (Snowfall). A small rural town in Maine is shocked as a mysterious animal leaves a local resident brutally ripped apart. Deemed to be a random bear attack by town officials, freelance journalist Max Frome suspects it might be something more.
  • Desert Shadows starring Mitch Pileggi (The X-Files), Julie Anne Prescott (The Amityville Harvest), Bill Farmer (Space Jam). Two brothers embark on a hunting trip to help bring them closer together but become prey to a deadly creature that has roamed the desert for centuries. Eric, an addict, goes missing, while his brother Donnie becomes hellbent on finding him.

Crackle Original Series 

  • This is Paradise starring Julia Woolley Chatwin (Cargo), Michael Oloyede (Brooklyn.Blue.Sky). Two women – Keisha, business-like but recently unemployed, and Rachel, penniless and ditzy – find their lives will never be the same once they discover they are half-sisters and joint-heirs of a poorly-run resort in The Bahamas.

Feature Film

  • Girl starring Bella Thorne (Shake It Up), Elizabeth Saunders (From), Mickey Rourke (Sin City). A young woman returns to her small hometown intent on killing her abusive father only to discover someone murdered him the day before. As the girl searches for answers, she uncovers a family legacy more dangerous than she’d imagined.
  • A Violent Separation starring Alycia Debnam-Carey (Fear the Walking Dead), Ted Levine (The Silence of the Lambs), Brenton Thwaites (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales). Two brothers struggle with a terrible truth behind a tragedy that aims to tear three generations of a family apart.
  • The Illusionist starring Edward Norton (American History X), Jessica Biel (Candy), Paul Giamatti (Billions). An illusionist and a police inspector face off in a challenge of wills that attempts to determine where reality ends and magic begins.
  • Losin’ It starring Tom Cruise (Top Gun: Maverick), Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen), John Stockwell (Top Gun). Set in 1965, four rowdy teenage guys travel to Tijuana, Mexico for a night of partying when they are joined by a heartbroken housewife who is in town seeking a quick divorce.
  • Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie & Blue Collar Comedy Tour Rides Again starring Jeff Foxworthy (The Jeff Foxworthy Show), Bill Engval (Last Man Standing)l, Ron White (Horrible Bosses), and Larry the Cable Guy (Cars). The comedic stylings of four sort-of famous funnymen are brought to the big screen courtesy of this 2002 documentary.
  • The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pitman starring Cicely Tyson (The Help), Richard Dysart (The Thing), Joel Fluellen (A Raisin in the Sun). Story of a black woman in the South who was born into slavery in the 1850s and lives to become a part of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
  • Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt starring Tom Selleck (Magnum P.I.), Kathy Baker (Cold Mountain), Kohl Sudduth (Bowfinger). Jesse Stone finds himself struggling to get his job back as the Paradise police chief, and he is forced to rely on his cop intuition to sort through a maze of misleading clues and hidden meanings as he attempts to solve a shocking and horrifying mob related double homicide.
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Animated Television Series

  • Alf Tales starring Paul Fusco (Alf), Marla Lukofsky (The Super Mario Brothers Super Show). ALF and his friends retell classic stories in their own unique way.

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:

Crackle Original Feature Film 

  • Slice of Chicago Romance starring Megan Elizabeth Barker (All American), Tyler Courtad (S.W.A.T.). In Evanstown, a suburb of Chicago, Romanos & Juliatos, two pizza places, have competed for the town’s business for years. When both restaurants hand over the reins to the next generation, Riley and Sarah, after Pizza Den, a new pizza chain moves into town. The new bosses struggle to continue the rivalry after they begin to fall for one another.

Crackle Exclusive Feature Film

  • Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street starring Linda Bove (Sesame Street), Fran Brill (Sesame Street). Take a stroll down Sesame Street and witness the birth of the most impactful children’s series in TV history. From the iconic furry characters to the songs you know by heart, learn how a gang of visionary creators changed our world.

Feature Film

  • The Dinner starring Richard Gere (Working Girl), Laura Linney (Ozarks),  Steve Coogan (24 Hour Party People). Two estranged brothers and their wives meet at a restaurant to discuss a grotesque crime committed by their sons. With their involvement still a secret, they must decide how far they’ll go to protect the ones they love.
  • The English Teacher starring  Julianne Moore (Boogie Nights), Greg Kinnear (As Good As It Gets), Nathan Lane (The Birdcage). Julianne Moore stars as an English teacher who has her life turned upside down when a former student returns to town. Also starring Greg Kinnear and Nathan Lane.
  • Jewel starring Farrah Fawcett (Charlie’s Angels), Patrick Bergin (Sleeping With the Enemy), Cicely Tyson (The Help). Farrah Fawcett plays Jewel, a 40-year-old woman living in 1940s Mississippi who gives birth to a girl with Down Syndrome and raises her amidst immense social stigma and financial hardship.
  • Different Flowers starring Emma Bell (The Walking Dead), Hope Lauren (Supergirl), Shelley Long (Cheers). A woman embarks on an adventure with her free-spirited sister after leaving her fiance at the altar.
  • The Woman Who Wasn’t There. The Woman Who Wasn’t There is a psychological thriller that goes inside the mind of history’s most infamous 9/11 survivor.
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Available 6/15

  • Expecting Amish starring AJ Michalka (The Goldbergs), Jesse McCartney (Army Wives). Expecting Amish on Lifetime tells the story of 18-year-old Hannah Yoder, who is ready to join the Amish Church and marry her boyfriend Samuel. But things change when she goes to Hollywood and gets a glimpse of the world beyond.
  • The Wild Ponies of Chincoteague. The Wild Ponies of Chincoteague follows the annual Chincoteague wild pony swim and auction, as well as one teenager’s journey to buy her first foal.

Television Series

  • My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas S1 starring Diane Kochilas (Throwdown With Bobby Flay). Greek chef Diane Kochilas travels throughout Greece, showcasing the foods the country is known for, as well as its traditions.
  • Police Dog Academy starring Sandi Toksvig (No. 73). Following on from the moving and popular Animals in Uniform series, Police Dog Academy looks at the role of dogs in the police force. The series follows the progress of a family of puppies born at the Metropolitan Police Training School for Dogs. Once fully grown and trained these dogs will have to cope with every event, from tracking burglars to dealing with rowdy football fans, helping to search for forensic evidence and, if necessary, stopping a criminal escape. Shaping the characters of the animals is paramount: these puppies will become key components in the police force’s fight against crime.
  • Phil Spencer’s Stately Homes starring Phil Spencer (Kristie & Phil’s Love It or List It). Property guru Phil Spencer returns with another grand tour of the UK’s most stately homes.
  • Joanna Lumley’s Hidden Caribbean starring Joanna Lumley (Absolutely Fabulous). Actress and presenter Joanna Lumley explores two of the most enigmatic countries in the Caribbean to uncover and share their hidden gems. Travelling from Cuba to Haiti on a variety of different transports, she starts her adventure in the Cuban capital Havana and finishes in the vibrant country of Haiti.

 

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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.

  • June 11, 2023