Posts Tagged ‘coming-of-age’

Sleepwalking (2008)

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Nick Stahl | Dennis Hopper | Woody Harrelson | Simon Chin | Mike Ennis | Callum Keith Rennie | Peter Scoular | Troy Skog
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The drama follows an 11-year-old girl’s struggle to come to terms with her mother’s abandonment.

Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)

Monday, July 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Sean Penn | Judge Reinhold | Robert Romanus | Brian Backer | Ray Walston | Scott Thomson | Vincent Schiavelli | D.W. Brown | Forest Whitaker | Tom Nolan | Eric Stoltz | Stanley Davis Jr. | James Russo | James Bolt | Nicolas Cage
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Follows a group of high school students growing up in southern California, based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a love interest, and are helped along by their older classmates, Linda Barrett and Mike Damone, respectively. The center of the film is held by Jeff Spicoli, a perpetually stoned surfer dude who faces off with the resolute Mr. Hand, who is convinced that everyone is on dope.

Karate Kid, The (1984)

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Ralph Macchio | Pat Morita | Martin Kove | William Zabka | Ron Thomas | Rob Garrison | Chad McQueen | Tony O'Dell | Israel Juarbe | William Bassett | Larry B. Scott | Frank Burt Avalon | Jeff Fishman | Ken Daly | Tom Fridley
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Daniel is new in town, and is getting picked on by the local bullies, who all are adept in karate. Determined to stick up for himself, Daniel begins to teach himself karate, only to discover that the caretaker at his apartment seems to be a grand master in karate. Agreeing to teach Daniel, Mr. Miyagi shows Daniel that there is more to karate than violence, and perhaps the best way to solve the problem he has with the bullies is in the All Valley Karate Championship.

Breakfast Club, The (1985)

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Emilio Estevez | Anthony Michael Hall | Judd Nelson | Paul Gleason | John Kapelos | Ron Dean | Tim Gamble | Perry Crawford | John Hughes
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When five high school students, Andrew, John, Allison, Brian, and Claire, meet in detention one day. The principal wants them to write an essay, and they think they are in for a boring 8 hours of doing nothing. At first, they argue and hate each other, but after smoking some marijuana, they pour their hearts out to each other, and tell about their fears, secrets, and their deepest emotions, and problems.

MirrorMask (2005)

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Jason Barry | Rob Brydon | Stephen Fry | Andy Hamilton | Simon Harvey | Lenny Henry | Robert Llewellyn | Nik Robson | Rick Allen | Simon Schofield | Mark Tate | Richard Thompson | Robin Thompson | Iain Ballamy | Chris Batchelor
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Helena, a 15-year-old girl in a family of circus entertainers, often wishes she could run off and join real life. After a fight with her parents about her future plans, her mother falls quite ill and Helena is convinced that it is all her fault. On the eve of her mother’s major surgery, she dreams that she is in a strange world with two opposing queens, bizarre creatures, and masked inhabitants. All is not well in this new world - the white queen has fallen ill and can only be restored by the MirrorMask, and it’s up to Helena to find it. But as her adventures continue, she begins to wonder whether she’s in a dream, or something far more sinister.

Rocket Science (2007)

Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Reece Thompson | Dionne Audain | Anna Kendrick | Nicholas D'Agosto | Vincent Piazza | Margo Martindale | Aaron Yoo | Josh Kay | Steve Park | Maury Ginsberg | Utkarsh Ambudkar | Denis O'Hare | Lisbeth Bartlett | Candace Scholz | Virginia Frank
Directors: Jeffrey Blitz
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Coming of age in Plainsboro, New Jersey. High school student Hal Hefner stutters. On the evening his parents stop arguing and separate, 43 miles away at the state tournament, his school’s legendary debater, Ben Wekselbaum, goes blank mid-sentence, Ben’s teammate Ginny Ryerson doesn’t get a first-place trophy, and the world changes. That fall, to Hal’s amazement, Ginny recruits him for the debate team, mentors him, and will be his partner. He still has his stutter, but he works hard and he falls in love with Ginny. On the day of the first debate of the season, the world changes again. From then until the day of the state tournament, Hal has a lot to sort out. Is love rocket science?

Basketball Diaries, The (1995)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio | Lorraine Bracco | Marilyn Sokol | James Madio | Patrick McGaw | Mark Wahlberg | Roy Cooper | Bruno Kirby | Jimmy Papiris | Nick Gaetani | Alexander Chaplin | Ben Jorgensen | Josh Mostel | Juliette Lewis | Michael Imperioli
Directors: Scott Kalvert
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Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll’s epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction. As a member of a seemingly unbeatable high school basketball squad, Jim’s life centers around the basketball court and the court becomes a metaphor for the world in his mind. A best friend who is dying of leukemia, a coach (”Swifty”) who takes unacceptable liberties with the boys on his team, teenage sexual angst, and an unhealthy appetite for heroin — all of these begin to encroach on young Jim’s dream of becoming a basketball star. Soon, the dark streets of New York become a refuge from his mother’s mounting concern for her son. He can’t go home and his only escape from the reality of the streets is heroin for which he steals, robs and prostitutes himself. Only with the help of Reggie, an older neighborhood friend with whom Jim “picked up a game” now and then, is he able to begin the long journey back to sanity.

What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Johnny Depp | Leonardo DiCaprio | Juliette Lewis | Mary Steenburgen | Darlene Cates | Laura Harrington | Mary Kate Schellhardt | Kevin Tighe | John C. Reilly | Crispin Glover | Penelope Branning | Tim Green | Susan Loughran | Robert B. Hedges | Mark Jordan
Directors: Lasse Hallström
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What’s Eating Gibert Grape is a beautifully shot movie of tenderness, caring and self-awareness that is set amongst the fictional working class one street town Endora. Centred around the Grape family Ellen and Amy and their two brothers Arnie and Gilbert, who, along with their morbidly obese widowed mother Bonnie Grape are striving to survive and coexist with the absence of a father figure, low wage work and seventeen-year-old Arnie’s severe mental condition. It is in this awkward and extremely one sided affair that the unfortunate Gilbert (Johnny Depp) has to constantly, while working for the town’s slowly dying Convenience Store, take care of his younger brother, played to such depth and conviction by a very young Leonardo DiCaprio. Gilbert’s life, his future, is thwarted he know this, but it is in this Guardian Angel that his love and bond for Arnie cannot, and will not, be let go. That is until the free spirit of Becky (Juliette Lewis) arrives in town, and with her grandmother are stranded for the week while waiting for parts for their vehicle. This realisation unties new feelings, new thoughts and new hope for the put upon Gibert, something new is eating Gilbert Grape.

Boogie Nights (1997)

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Luis Guzmán | Burt Reynolds | Julianne Moore | Rico Bueno | John C. Reilly | Nicole Ari Parker | Don Cheadle | Heather Graham | Mark Wahlberg | William H. Macy | Samson Barkhordarian | Nina Hartley | Brad Braeden | Joanna Gleason | Lawrence Hudd
Directors: Paul Thomas Anderson
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Everyone’s born with one special thing, and Eddie Adams uses his humongous “asset” to take the world of film pornography by storm. Things get ugly though when success leads to drugs and ruin. Will Dirk clean up and get back on top? Will Amber see her son? Will Rollergirl ever take off her skates?!

I’m Not There (2007)

Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | Music
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Cate Blanchett | Ben Whishaw | Christian Bale | Richard Gere | Marcus Carl Franklin | Heath Ledger | Kris Kristofferson | Don Francks | Roc LaFortune | Larry Day | Paul Cagelet | Pierre-Alexandre Fortin | Richie Havens | Tyrone Benskin | Kim Roberts
Directors: Todd Haynes
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Six incarnations of Bob Dylan: an actor, a folk singer, an electrified troubadour, Rimbaud, Billy the Kid, and Woody Guthrie. Put Dylan’s music behind their adventures, soliloquies, interviews, marriage, and infidelity. Recreate 1960s documentaries in black and white. Put each at a crossroads, the artist becoming someone else. Jack, the son of Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, finds Jesus; handsome Robbie falls in love then abandons Claire. Woody, a lad escaped from foster care, hobos the U.S. singing; Billy awakes in a valley threatened by a six-lane highway; Rimbaud talks. Jude, booed at Newport when he goes electric, fences with reporters, pundits, and fans. He won’t be classified.