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Genre "Coming-of-Age" Movies (showing 1 to 50 from 126 total)

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21 (2002) Genre: Comedy Drama, Family Drama, Coming-of-Age. Director: Actors: Storyline: Sorry, no description is available yet for this movie...

A Bronx Tale (1993) Genre: Drama, Coming-of-Age, Urban Drama, Gangster Film. Director: Robert De Niro. Actors: Robert De Niro, Chazz Palminteri, Lillo Brancato, Francis Capra, Taral Hicks, Kathrine Narducci, Clem Caserta, Alfred Sauchelli, Jr., Joe Pesci, Elizabeth Abassi, Ida Bemardini, Joe Black, Garry Blackwood, Nicky Blair, Patrick Borriello, Ellen Chenoweth, Joseph D'Onofrio, Chad Dowdell, Tommy A. Ford, Mitch Kolpan, Domenick Lombardozzi, Steve Pendleton, Paul Perri. Storyline: Robert De Niro made his directorial debut with this expanded adaptation of Chazz Palminteri's one-character play. DeNiro's role of Lorenzo Anello, an Italian-America bus driver, is secondary to the part of his son Calogero, played by young Francis Capra. The top dog in Calogero's Bronx neighborhood is flashy "wiseguy" Sonny (Chazz Palminteri). When the boy witnesses Sonny commit a murder ...

A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006) Genre: Drama, Urban Drama, Family Drama, Coming-of-Age. Director: Dito Montiel. Actors: Robert Downey, Jr., Shia LaBeouf, Chazz Palminteri, Dianne Wiest, Channing Tatum, Melonie Diaz, Martin Compston, Eric Roberts, Rosario Dawson, Adam Scarimbolo. Storyline: The harsh realities of life on the street merge with the universal themes of youthful pain and exhilaration in director Dito Montiel's telling tale of one boy's struggle to escape the grim fate that awaits his aimless, trouble-minded peers. For most of Montiel's friends, the only means of escaping their bleak surroundings were drugs, prison, or death. In breaking the cycle and making a name for hi ...

A River Runs Through It (1992) Genre: Drama, Family Drama, Americana, Coming-of-Age. Director: Robert Redford. Actors: Craig Sheffer, Brad Pitt, Tom Skerritt, Brenda Blethyn, Emily Lloyd, Edie McClurg, Stephen Shellen, Nicole Burdette, Susan Traylor, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Vann Gravage, Chuck Adamson, Philip A. Braun, Rob Cox, David Creamer, Michael Cudlitz, Byron Dingman, MacIntyre Dixon, Jim Dunkin, Hawk Forssell, D. Gorton, William Hootkins, Don Jeffery, Prudence Johnson, Cecily Johnson, Rex Kendall, Margot Kiser, Martina Kreidl, Jack Kroll, Tracy Mayfield, Anne Merrem, Fred Oakland, Lincoln Quesenberry, Robert Redford, Madonna Reubens, Arnold Richardson, Kathy Scharler, Jess Schwidde, Caleb Shiff, Buck Simmonds, Noah Snyder, Jacob Snyder, Chuck Tweed. Storyline: Robert Redford's lyrical direction sets the tone for this evocative adaptation of author Norman MacLean's memoir of his idyllic Montana youth. The MacLean family is presided over by the strict but encouraging Rev. MacLean (Tom Skerritt) and his loving wife (Brenda Blethyn). Craig Sheffer stars as the young Norman, the older son in his family, who takes his school work and writing a bit too serious ...

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) Genre: Drama, Coming-of-Age, Family Drama, Period Film. Director: Elia Kazan. Actors: Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Lloyd Nolan, Peggy Ann Garner, Ted Donaldson, James Gleason, Ruth Nelson, John Alexander, B.S. Pully, Ferike Boros, John Farrell MacDonald, Adeline Reynolds, George Melford, Mae Marsh, Vincent Graeff, Susan Lester, John Berkes, Lillian Bronson, Alec Craig, Charles Halton, Al Bridge, Joseph J. Greene, Virginia Brissac, Harry Harvey, Jr., Bob Anderson, Art Smith, Norman Field, George Meader, Erskine Sanford, Martha Wentworth, Francis Pierlot, Peter Cusanelli, George Carleton, Al Eben, Teddy Infur, Mickey Kuhn, Robert Malcolm, Constance Purdy, Nicholas Ray, Harry Seymour, Robert Strange, Joyce Tucker. Storyline: One-time movie song-and-dance man James Dunn won an Academy Award for his "comeback" performance in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Based on the best-selling novel by Betty Smith, the film relates the trials and tribulations of a turn-of-the-century Brooklyn tenement family. The father, Dunn, is a likable but irresponsible alcoholic whose dreams of improving his family's lot are invariably doo ...

About a Boy (2002) Genre: Comedy Drama, Romantic Comedy, Coming-of-Age. Director: Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz. Actors: Hugh Grant, Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, Rachel Weisz, Isabel Brooke, Victoria Smurfit, Sharon Small. Storyline: London's most frequently eligible bachelor gets some lessons in growing up from a maladroit 12-year-old boy in this third big-screen adaptation of a Nick Hornby novel, directed and co-written by siblings Chris and Paul Weitz of American Pie fame. About a Boy concerns the parallel coming-of-age stories of the thirtysomething Will (Hugh Grant), a layabout "serial nice guy" living a posh, c ...

All the Real Girls (2003) Genre: Drama, Coming-of-Age, Romantic Drama. Director: David Gordon Green. Actors: Paul Schneider, Zooey Deschanel, Shea Whigham, Patricia Clarkson, Maurice Compte, Benjamin Mouton, Danny R. McBride. Storyline: David Gordon Green, who in 2000 made a splash on the festival circuit with his independent debut feature, George Washington, directed this drama about two people entering into a mature romantic relationship — the sort that neither has been accustomed to. Paul (Paul Schneider) is a guy in his mid-'20s who lives in a small Southern town, where he earn a living fixing cars for his uncle. A ...

Almost Famous (2000) Genre: Comedy Drama, Coming-of-Age, Road Movie, Musical Drama. Director: Cameron Crowe. Actors: Patrick Fugit, Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand, Kate Hudson, Jason Lee, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Zooey Deschanel, Anna Paquin, Fairuza Balk, Noah Taylor, John Fedevich, Bijou Phillips, Eion Bailey, Terry Chen, Jimmy Fallon, Daniel Wilson, John Patrick Amedori, Michael Angarano. Storyline: Writer and director Cameron Crowe's experiences as a teenage rock journalist — he was a regular contributor to Rolling Stone while still in high school — inspired this coming-of-age story about a 15-year-old boy hitting the road with an up-and-coming rock band in the early 1970s. Elaine Miller (Frances McDormand) is a bright, loving, but strict single parent whose distrust of r ...

American Graffiti (1973) Genre: Comedy Drama, Coming-of-Age, Americana, Teen Movie, Ensemble Film, Period Film. Director: George Lucas. Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Charles Martin Smith, Cindy Williams, Candy Clark, Scott Beach, Jana Bellan, Jim Bohan, John Bracci, John Brent, Debbie Celiz, Del Close, James Cranna, Tim Crowley, Charles Dorsett, Jan Dunn, Flash Cadillac & the Continental Kids, Harrison Ford, Beau Gentry, Ed Greenberg, Herby and the Heartbeats, Bo Hopkins, Terry McGovern, George Meyer, Joseph Miksak, Charles A. Murphy, Al Nalbandian, William M. Niven, Manuel Padilla, Mackenzie Phillips, Christopher Pray, Kathleen Quinlan, Susan Richardson, Debra Scott, Suzanne Somers, Joe Spano, Lynne Stewart, Ron Vincent, Johnny Weissmuller, Jr., Jan Wilson, Wolfman Jack. Storyline: It's the last night of summer 1962, and the teenagers of Modesto, California, want to have some fun before adult responsibilities close in. Among them are Steve (Ron Howard) and Curt (Richard Dreyfuss), college-bound with mixed feelings about leaving home; nerdy Terry "The Toad" (Charles Martin Smith), who scores a dream date with blonde Debbie (Candy Clark); and John (Paul Le Mat ), a 2 ...

American Pie (1999) Genre: Comedy, Teen Movie, Sex Comedy, Coming-of-Age, Gross-Out Comedy. Director: Paul Weitz. Actors: Jason Biggs, Shannon Elizabeth, Alyson Hannigan, Chris Klein, Natasha Lyonne, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Tara Reid, Seann William Scott, Mena Suvari, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Eugene Levy, Jennifer Coolidge, Chris Owen, Clyde Kusatsu, Lawrence Pressman, Molly Cheek, John Cho, James DeBello, Christina Milian. Storyline: It's said that most American men think about sex once every two or three minutes, but this statistic would seriously underestimate the horniness of Jim (Jason Biggs), a high school senior in suburban Michigan. Jim is thoroughly obsessed with sex, a fact of which his parents become aware when they discover him performing the sin of Onan with a gym sock while watching scrambled pay-per-view porn. Ji ...

Aparajito (1956) Genre: Drama, Coming-of-Age, Urban Drama, Family Drama. Director: Satyajit Ray. Actors: Kali Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee, Pinaki San Gupta, Kanu Banerji, Smaran Ghosal, Ramani Sen Gupta, Subodh Ganguly, Charu Ghosh, Santi Gupta, Ajay Mitra, K.S. Pandey, Kali Charan Ray, Sudipta Ray. Storyline: The Unvanquished is the second of Indian director Satyajit Ray's "Apu Trilogy" (the first was Pather Panchali). Ray's young protagonist Apu is permitted a formal education over the gentle objections of his mother, who'd wanted him to be priest. Eventually, Apu earns a university scholarship and arrives in the teeming metropolis of Calcutta. Overwhelmed by life in the Big City, the impres ...

Armin (2007) Genre: Drama, Road Movie, Coming-of-Age. Director: Ognjen Svilicic. Actors: Emir Hadzihafisbegovic, Armin Omerovic-Muhedin, Jens Münchov, Marie Baumer, Barbara Prpic, Orhan Güner. Storyline: Writer-director Ognjen Svilicic's feature Armin - a Bosnian-Croatian-German co-production, in Bosnian, Croatian, German and English - follows the experiences of Ibro, a father who takes his teenage son Armin on a lengthy road trip. They journey from their village in Bosnia to a movie studio in Croatia, where Armin is to audition in a German film about the Balkan conflict. The movie relentlessly di ...

Baby Boy (2001) Genre: Drama, Urban Drama, Coming-of-Age. Director: John Singleton. Actors: Tyrese Gibson, Omar Gooding, A.J. Johnson, Taraji P. Henson, Snoop Dogg, Tamara LaSeon Bass, Ving Rhames, Mo'nique, Angell Conwell. Storyline: Ten years later, writer and director John Singleton returns to the South Central Los Angeles neighborhoods of his debut film Boyz 'N the Hood (1991). Tyrese Gibson stars as Jody, a jobless 20-year-old African-American man who has fathered two children by two different women, Yvette (Taraji P. Henson) and Peanut (Tamara LaSeon Bass), although he still lives with his 36-year-old mother Juanita (Adri ...

Beautiful Thing (1996) Genre: Comedy Drama, Gay & Lesbian Films, Coming-of-Age. Director: Hettie MacDonald. Actors: Andrew Fraser, Linda Henry, Glen Berry, Julie Smith, Jeillo Edwards, Scott Neal, Daniel Bowers, Ben Daniels, Tameka Empson, Ozdemir Mamodeally, Beth Goddard, Anna Karen, Marlene Sidaway, Liane Ware, Catherine Sanderson, Dave Lynn, Jonathan Harvey, John Benfield, Garry Cooper, Terry Duggan, Davyd Harries, Steven M. Martin, John Savage, Sophie Stanton, Meera Syal, Martin Walsh. Storyline: In this alternately somber and witty coming-of-age drama, a pair of teenage boys growing up in a working-class neighborhood become aware of their homosexuality. Introspective Jamie (Glen Berry) is the son of Sandra (Linda Henry), a tough but warm-hearted barmaid who lives in a public housing block in a rough-and-tumble section of South London. Living a few doors away is Jamie's classmate Ste (Scot ...

Bend It Like Beckham (2002) Genre: Comedy Drama, Sports Comedy, Coming-of-Age, Domestic Comedy. Director: Gurinder Chadha. Actors: Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Shaheen Khan, Anupam Kher, Ameet Chana, Juliet Stevenson, Imran Ali, Saraj Chaudhry, Trey Farley, Kulvinder Ghir, Frank Harper, Preeya Kalidas, Shaznay Lewis, Archie Panjabi, Pooja Shah, Paven Virk. Storyline: An independent-minded young woman discovers the joys of football, much to her family's chagrin, in this upbeat British comedy drama. Jess Bhamra (Parminder Nagra) is an 18-year-old growing up in West London, where her family has taken every effort to stay in touch with its Indian heritage. Jess' father and mother (Anupam Kher and Shaheen Khan) are after their daughter to go to law school, learn to ...

Biker Boyz (2003) Genre: Action, Drama, Family Drama, Coming-of-Age, Chase Movie. Director: Reggie Rock Bythewood. Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Derek Luke, Orlando Jones, Djimon Hounsou, Lisa Bonet, Brendan Fehr, Larenz Tate, Kid Rock, Rick Gonzalez, Meagan Good, Salli Richardson, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Dante Basco, Tyson Beckford, Melissa DeSousa, Kadeem Hardison, Eriq La Salle. Storyline: Two generations of radical bikers face off in this rubber-burning action drama. Manuel "Smoke" Galloway (Laurence Fishburne) is the leader of the Black Knights, an underground motorcycle club. Smoke, like most of his fellow Knights, is a successful white collar worker who can afford fancy leathers and top quality bikes, and Smoke has earned a reputation as the "King of Cali," w ...

Billy Elliot (2000) Genre: Comedy Drama, Childhood Drama, Family Drama, Coming-of-Age. Director: Stephen Daldry. Actors: Julie Walters, Jamie Bell, Gary Lewis, Jean Heywood, Stuart Wells, Nicola Blackwell, Jamie Draven. Storyline: Brassed Off meets My Name Is Joe in this gritty coming-of-age drama about a young son of a poor English coal miner who dreams of being a ballet dancer. The film is set during a 1984 miners' strike in Durham county, where angry clashes between picketers and cops in riot gear are nearly daily occurrences. Among the most vociferous protestors are Tony (Jamie Driven) and his dad (Gary Lewis), who nags ...

Black Irish (2007) Genre: Drama, Coming-of-Age, Family Drama. Director: Brad Gann. Actors: Brendan Gleeson, Michael Angarano, Tom Guiry, Emily VanCamp, Melissa Leo, Michael Rispoli, Francis Capra. Storyline: A young man struggles to grow up with principles as his family begins to self-destruct around him in this coming of age drama. Cole McKay (Michael Angarano) is a boy in his middle-teens growing up in an Irish-Catholic family in Boston. While Cole has dreams of playing major league baseball some day, his parents Desmond (Brendan Gleeson) and Margaret (Melissa Leo) are blind to his ambitions, and hi ...

Cadet Kelly (2002) Genre: Comedy, Coming-of-Age, Teen Movie, Family-Oriented Comedy. Director: Larry Shaw. Actors: Hilary Duff, Christy Romano, Gary Cole, Stewart Arnott, Shawn Ashmore, Beverlee Buzon, Desmond Campbell, Sarah Gadon, Aimee Garcia, Nigel Hamer, Edie Inksetter, Dalene Irvine, Linda Kash, Andrea Lewis, Joe Matheson, Tim Post, Martin Roach, Avery Saltzman, Christopher Tai, John Wittig. Storyline: Two of the Disney Channel's brightest young sitcom stars, Hilary Duff (Lizzie Maguire) and Christy Romano (Even Stevens), team up for laughs and tears in the made-for-cable Cadet Kelly. The life of cool, artistically inclined 14-year-old Kelly Collins (Duff) is turned upside down when she is uprooted from Manhattan and whisked off to the campus of George Washington Military School in upstate New Y ...

Charlie Bartlett (2007) Genre: Comedy Drama, Coming-of-Age, Teen Movie. Director: Jon Poll. Actors: Anton Yelchin, Robert Downey, Jr., Hope Davis, Kat Dennings, Tyler Hilton, Mark Rendall, Megan Park, Dylan Taylor, Jake Epstein, Jonathan Malen, Derek McGrath, Stephen Young, Ishan Dave, Dave Brown, Eric Fink, Noam Jenkins, Lauren Collins, Annick Obonsawin, Sarah Gadon, Aubrey Graham, Michael D'Ascenzo, Dwayne McLean, Quancetia Hamilton, Richard Campbell, Kim Roberts, David Fraser, Marvin Karon, Brendan Murray, Abigail Bernardez, Laura Jeanes, Annamaria Janice McAndrew, Amelia Tenttave, Annabelle Singson, Julia Cohen, Abby Zotz, Spiral Beach, Maddy Wilde, Airick Woodhead, Dorian Wolf, Daniel Woodhead. Storyline: Longtime film editor Jon Poll (Meet the Fockers and Austin Powers in Goldmember) makes his directorial debut with this coming-of-age comedy about a wealthy public school system newcomer (Anton Yelchin) who wins over his skeptical classmates by serving as a surrogate psychiatrist to the troubled student body. Robert Downey Jr., Hope Davis, and Kat Dennings co-star.

Cinema Paradiso (1988) Genre: Drama, Melodrama, Coming-of-Age. Director: Giuseppe Tornatore. Actors: Philippe Noiret, Salvatore Cascio, Marco Leonardi, Jacques Perrin, Antonella Attili, Pupella Maggio, Agnese Nano, Brigitte Fossey, Enzo Cannavale, Isa Danieli, Leo Gullotta, Leopoldo Trieste, Tano Cimarosa, Nicola di Pinto, Roberta Lena, Nino Terzo, Giorgio Libassi, Beatrice Palme, Ignazio Pappalardo. Storyline: Cinema Paradiso offers a nostalgic look at films and the effect they have on a young boy who grows up in and around the title village movie theater in this Italian comedy drama that is based on the life and times of screenwriter/director Giuseppe Tornatore. The story begins in the present as a Sicilian mother pines for her estranged son, Salvatore, who left many years ago and has since become a pr ...

City of God (2002) Genre: Crime, Drama, Urban Drama, Period Film, Crime Drama, Coming-of-Age. Director: Fernando Meirelles. Actors: Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino da Hora, Matheus Nachtergaele, Phelipe Haagensen, Seu Jorge, Jonathan Haagensen, Daniel Zettel, Alice Braga, Douglas Silva, Roberta Rodriguez Silvia, Michel de Souza Gomes, Darlan Cunha. Storyline: Fernando Meirelles' City of God is a sweeping tale of how crime affects the poor population of Rio de Janeiro. Though the narrative skips around in time, the main focus is on Cabeleira who formed a gang called the Tender Trio. He and his best friend, Bené (Phelipe Haagensen), become crime lords over the course of a decade. When Bené is killed before he can retire, Lil' Zé attempts to take out his ...

College Road Trip (2008) Genre: Comedy, Road Movie, Coming-of-Age, Family-Oriented Comedy, Domestic Comedy. Director: Roger Kumble. Actors: Martin Lawrence, Raven Symone, Donny Osmond, Brenda Song, Will Sasso, Eshaya Draper, Kym E. Whitley, Arnetia Walker, Margo Harshman, Josh Meyers, Michael Landes, Lucas Grabeel, Adam Lefever, Molly Ephraim, Chad Hessler, Eugene Jones, Adam Le Fevre, Lonny Ross. Storyline: A high-school student (Raven Symone) with noble dreams of becoming a public defender sets out to visit potential universities in the unwanted company of her father (Martin Lawrence) — an overprotective cop — in this road trip comedy produced by Andrew Gunn and directed by Roger Kumble. Melanie (Symone) is about to graduate high school, and she's ready to take her first step tow ...

Coyote Ugly (2000) Genre: Comedy Drama, Urban Comedy, Urban Drama, Coming-of-Age. Director: David McNally. Actors: Piper Perabo, Adam Garcia, Maria Bello, John Goodman, Melanie Lynskey, Izabella Miko, Bridget Moynahan, Tyra Banks, Del Pentacost, Michael Weston, LeAnn Rimes, Johnny Knoxville, Chris Wylde. Storyline: An aspiring musician becomes one of the most famous bartenders in New York in this high-spirited comedy-drama. Small-town girl Violet Sanford (Piper Perabo) dreams of making a name for herself as a singer and songwriter, so she moves to New York City in hopes of landing her big break. Needing to support herself until stardom rolls around, she takes a job as a barmaid at a new nightspot called Coyo ...

Dazed and Confused (1993) Genre: Comedy Drama, Coming-of-Age, Teen Movie, Ensemble Film, Period Film. Director: Richard Linklater. Actors: Jason London, Wiley Wiggins, Rory Cochrane, Milla Jovovich, Joey Lauren Adams, Marissa Ribisi, Adam Goldberg, Anthony Rapp, Sasha Jenson, Parker Posey, Matthew McConaughey, Ben Affleck, Michelle Burke, Cole Hauser, Jason Smith, Nicky Katt, Deena Martin, Shawn Andrews, David Blackwell, Richard Dillard, Mona Lee Fultz, Erika Geminder, Christine Harnos, Christin Hinojosa, Kim Krizan, Fred Lerner, John L. Martin, Zeke Mills, Diane Perella, Don Phillips, Esteban Powell, Zack Taylor, Doug Taylor, Julius Tennon. Storyline: Like George Lucas' American Graffiti, Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused is an affectionate look at the youth culture of a bygone era. While Lucas took aim at the conservative 1950's, Linklater jumps ahead a generation to the bicentennial year of 1976 to celebrate the joys of beer blasts, pot smoking and Frampton Comes Alive. Set on the last day of the academic year, the film follows the ran ...

Dear Frankie (2004) Genre: Drama, Coming-of-Age, Family Drama. Director: Shona Auerbach. Actors: Emily Mortimer, Jack McElhone, Gerard Butler, Sharon Small, Mary Riggans, Jayd Johnson, Sean Browne, Anne Marie Timoney, Cal Macaninch, Anna Hepburn, John Kazek, Kate Murphy. Storyline: Directed by Shona Auerbach, Dear Frankie revolves around nine-year-old Frankie (Jack McElhone) and his mother, Lizzie (Emily Mortimer). The mother and son duo have been on the run for as long as Frankie, who has been deaf for years, can remember. In an effort to protect Frankie from the truth — that a psychotic father, whose physical abuse caused his hearing loss, is at the root of their ...

Deuces Wild (2002) Genre: Drama, Coming-of-Age, Urban Drama. Director: Scott Kalvert. Actors: Stephen Dorff, Brad Renfro, Fairuza Balk, Norman Reedus, Max Perlich, Drea de Matteo, Vincent Pastore, Frankie Muniz, Balthazar Getty, Nancy Ellen Cassaro, Matt Dillon, Deborah Harry, Louis Lombardi, Anna Albanese, James Franco, Johnny Knoxville, Joshua Leonard, Shamus Murphy, Jackie Tohn. Storyline: This gang warfare drama is from director Scott Kalvert, whose previous film was the controversial and violent The Basketball Diaries (1995). In the sweltering summer of 1958, Leon (Stephen Dorff) and Bobby (Brad Renfro) are leaders of the Brooklyn street gang known as the Deuces. When their brother Alley Boy died from an overdose, the two toughs vowed to keep narcotics out of their turf, but now t ...

Dirty Dancing (1987) Genre: Romance, Musical, Romantic Drama, Coming-of-Age, Musical Drama. Director: Emile Ardolino. Actors: Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Jerry Orbach, Cynthia Rhodes, Jack Weston, Jane Brucker, Kelly Bishop, Lonny Price, Max Cantor, Charles "Honi" Coles, Neal Jones, Tom Connold, Tom Drake, Jesus Fuentes, Miranda Garrison, Heather Lee Gerdes, Garry Goodrow, Wayne Knight, "Cousin Brucie" Morrow, Alvin Myerovich, Antone Pagan, Dorian Sanchez, Jennifer Stahl, Paula Trueman. Storyline: A teenage girl learns about love, adult responsibility, and how to do The Dirty Boogie in this romantic drama. In 1963, "Baby" Houseman (Jennifer Grey) is a 17-year-old spending the summer with her family at a resort hotel in the Catskills; she plans on being in the Peace Corps next summer, so this is expected to be her last summer as a carefree adolescent. Baby doesn't get along with he ...

Disco Pigs (2001) Genre: Drama, Psychological Drama, Coming-of-Age. Director: Kirsten Sheridan. Actors: Elaine Cassidy, Cillian Murphy, Geraldine O'Rawe, Eleanor Methven, Brian F. O'Byrne, Darren Healy, Tara O'Neil. Storyline: A friendship between two young people grows into a dangerous obsession in this drama based on the acclaimed stage play by Enda Walsh. Darren (Cillian Murphy) and Sinead (Elaine Cassidy) were born moments apart in the same hospital in a small Irish community. Nicknamed "Pig" and "Runt," Darren and Sinead grew up next door to each other and became inseparable friends while they w ...

Donnie Darko (2001) Genre: Fantasy, Comedy Drama, Psychological Drama, Coming-of-Age. Director: Richard Kelly. Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Mary McDonnell, Holmes Osborne, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore, Patrick Swayze, Katharine Ross, James Duval, Noah Wyle, Daveigh Chase, Beth Grant, Arthur Taxier, Stuart Stone, Gary Lundy, Jolene Purdy, David St. James, Ashley Tisdale. Storyline: Donnie (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a bright and charming high-school student who also has a dark and willfully eccentric side; he does little to mask his contempt for many of his peers and enjoys challenging the authority of the adults around him. Donnie is also visited on occasion by Frank, a monstrous six-foot rabbit that only Donnie can see who often urges him to perform dangerous and destructive pran ...

Drumline (2002) Genre: Comedy Drama, Musical Drama, Coming-of-Age. Director: Charles Stone III. Actors: Nick Cannon, Zoe Saldana, Orlando Jones, Leonard Roberts, GQ, Jason Weaver, Earl C. Poitier, Candace Carey, Shay Roundtree, Miguel A. Gaetan, J. Anthony Brown, Afemo Omilami. Storyline: Drumline brings the world of "show-style" marching bands (popular at traditionally black, Southern colleges) to the big screen for the first time. The story, by Shawn Schepps, was inspired by the high school drumline experiences of executive producer/executive music producer Dallas Austin. Devon (Nick Cannon of Nickelodeon's The Nick Cannon Show) is a Harlem drummer who earns a full scho ...

Edge of Seventeen (1998) Genre: Comedy Drama, Coming-of-Age, Gay & Lesbian Films, Teen Movie. Director: David Moreton. Actors: Chris Stafford, Tina Holmes, Andersen Gabrych, Stephanie McVay, Lea DeLaria, John Eby, Antonio Carriero, Jason Sheingross, Tony Maietta, Khalid Abdelrasoul, Jeffrey Abramson, Jesse Adams, Dina Anderson, Tal Ben-David, Karen Brooks, Dominic Carrion, Shannon Constantine, Stevie Reese Desmond, Diva, Joshua Elrod, Ryan Florio, Jeff Fryer, Mark Gates, Jason Griffiths, Kevin Joseph Kelly, Sallyanne Law, Twiggy Lawson, Justin Leach, Gregg Long, Jimmy Mack, Barbie Marie, Edd Martin, Doug Millon, Don Mitri, Jarred J. Nichols, Adam Penton, Mike Roth, Craig H. Shepherd, Clay Van Sickle, Mark Jay Warshak. Storyline: A Eurythmics-obsessed, small-town Ohio youth comes to terms with his sexual identity and his New Wave fashion sense in this gentle coming-out drama, which is set in 1984. When closeted Sandusky teen Eric (Chris Stafford) and his best friend, Maggie (Tina Holmes), accept summer jobs in food service at the local amusement park, they befriend their lesbian manager, Angie (Lea DeLaria), and a gay coll ...

Evil (2003) Genre: Drama, Coming-of-Age. Director: Mikael Håfström. Actors: Andreas Wilson, Henrik Lundström, Gustaf Skarsgård, Linda Zilliacus, Marie Richardson, Johan Rabaeus, Kjell Bergqvist, Magnus Roosmann, Christian Hollbrink, Henrik Linnros, Jesper Salen. Storyline: Sorry, no description is available yet for this movie...

Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) Genre: Comedy, Teen Movie, Coming-of-Age, Sex Comedy, Ensemble Film. Director: Amy Heckerling. Actors: Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Robert Romanus, Brian Backer, Phoebe Cates, Ray Walston, Scott Thomson, Vincent Schiavelli, Amanda Wyss, James Bershad, Patrick Brennan, Martin Brest, D.W. Brown, Nicolas Cage, Lana Clarkson, Stuart Cornfield, Sonny Carl Davis, Anthony Edwards, Reginald H. Farmer, Ava Lazar, Kelli Maroney, Douglas Brian Martin, Steven M. Martin, Stu Nahan, Taylor Negron, Tom Nolan, Virginia Peters, David F. Price, James Russo, Pamela Springsteen, Eric Stoltz, Lori Sutton, Duane Tucker, Forest Whitaker, Nancy Wilson, Michael Wyle. Storyline: Amy Heckerling's adaptation of Cameron Crowe's Fast Times at Ridgemont High is often considered one of the finest films of a disreputable genre (the teen sex comedy), and kick-started the careers of many future stars. The center of this ensemble film is Jennifer Jason Leigh as Stacy Hamilton. She is a young, innocent high-school student who, as the film opens, is asking for advice from her friend, ...

Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) Genre: Comedy, Teen Movie, Coming-of-Age, Urban Comedy. Director: John Hughes. Actors: Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara, Jeffrey Jones, Jennifer Grey, Cindy Pickett, Lyman Ward, Edie McClurg, Charlie Sheen, Del Close, Virginia Capers, Richard Edson, Larry "Flash" Jenkins, Jason Robert Alderman, Louie Anderson, Lisa Bellard, Stephanie Blake, Scott Coffey, Joey Garfield, Robert Kim, Edward LeBeau, Paul Manzanero, Robert McKibbon, Debra Montague, Polly Augusta Noonan, Bob Parkinson, Max Perlich, Dee Dee Rescher, Richard Rohrbough, Anne Ryan, Eric Saiet, Jonathan Schmock, Dave Silvestri, Dick Sollenberger, Tom Spratley, Ben Stein, Kristy Swanson, Joey Viera, Miranda Whittle. Storyline: Teenaged Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) is a legend in his own time thanks to his uncanny skill at cutting classes and getting away with it. Intending to make one last grand duck-out before graduation, Ferris calls in sick, "borrows" a Ferrari, and embarks on a one-day bacchanal through the streets of Chicago. Dogging Ferris' trail at every turn is high-school principal Rooney (Jeffr ...

Finding Forrester (2000) Genre: Drama, Coming-of-Age, Urban Drama. Director: Gus Van Sant. Actors: Sean Connery, Rob Brown, F. Murray Abraham, Anna Paquin, Busta Rhymes, April Grace, Matt Damon, Michael Nouri. Storyline: In the spirit of his Oscar-winning Good Will Hunting, Gus Van Sant directs this tale of the unlikely bond that develops between an aging, reclusive novelist named Forrester (Sean Connery) — who hasn't written anything since winning a Pulitzer Prize decades earlier — and Jamal (Rob Brown), a 16-year-old with a hidden desire to be a writer. When Jamal is cited for his athleticism ...

Fly Away Home (1996) Genre: Children's/Family, Drama, Family-Oriented Adventure, Family Drama, Animal Picture, Coming-of-Age. Director: Carroll Ballard. Actors: Jeff Daniels, Anna Paquin, Dana Delany, Terry Kinney, Holter Ford Graham, Jeremy Ratchford. Storyline: Inspired by a true story, Fly Away Home is a family drama about Amy Alden (Anna Paquin), a 13-year-old girl who, after the tragic death of her mother, is sent to live with her father Thomas (Jeff Daniels), a sculptor. Amy misses her mother and has never enjoyed a very warm relationship with her father, so the first few months in her new home are very difficult for her. However, one day Amy finds a ...

Garden State (2004) Genre: Comedy Drama, Coming-of-Age, Reunion Films, Romantic Comedy. Director: Zach Braff. Actors: Zach Braff, Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Ian Holm, Jean Smart, Ann Dowd, Ron Leibman, Method Man, Denis O'Hare, Michael Weston, Jim Parsons, Jackie Hoffman, Amy Ferguson, Ato Essandoh, George C. Wolfe, Geoffrey Arend, Alex Burns, Aunjanue Ellis, Jayne Houdyshell, Armando Riesco. Storyline: In the wake of his success on the hit NBC sitcom Scrubs, actor Zach Braff made his debut behind the camera writing, directing, and starring in this bittersweet romantic comedy. Braff plays Andrew Largeman, a young man who has just received word of his mother's passing. With this news, Andrew returns to the town in which he grew up, where he is greeted by his father, Gideon (Ian Holm), a psychiatri ...

Get Real (1998) Genre: Comedy Drama, Gay & Lesbian Films, Coming-of-Age, Romantic Drama, Teen Movie. Director: Simon Shore. Actors: Ben Silverstone, Brad Gorton, Charlotte Brittain, Stacy A. Hart, Kate McEnery, Tim Harris, James D. White, Patrick Nielsen, Louise J. Taylor. Storyline: This gay coming-of-age drama from Britain was screened at many film festivals including Toronto, Edinburgh, and the 1999 Sundance Film Festival (World Cinema section). It tells the story of 16-year-old Steven (Ben Silverstone), a boy who can't tell anyone of his sexual preference except an overweight girl named Linda, who is also unlucky in love. Steven (and most of his school's female student bod ...

Ginger Snaps (2000) Genre: Horror, Coming-of-Age, Monster Film, Feminist Film. Director: John Fawcett. Actors: Emily Perkins, Katharine Isabelle, Kristopher Lemche, Mimi Rogers, Jesse Moss, Peter Keleghan, John Bourgeois, Nick Nolan. Storyline: In the generic Canadian suburb of Bailey Downs live Ginger (Katharine Isabelle) and Brigitte (Emily Perkins), 15-year-old sisters committed to introversion, menstruation anxiety, and terminal misanthropy. Three years late for their first period, they spend their time staging gruesome death scenes for their own amusement, amidst the willful ignorance of their relentlessly perky mother (Mimi Rogers) ...

Girl, Interrupted (1999) Genre: Drama, Psychological Drama, Melodrama, Coming-of-Age. Director: James Mangold. Actors: Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Clea Duvall, Brittany Murphy, Elisabeth Moss, Jared Leto, Jeffrey Tambor, Vanessa Redgrave, Whoopi Goldberg, Mary Kay Place, Jillian Armenante, Angela Bettis, Drucie McDaniel, Joanna Kerns, Travis Fine, Kurtwood Smith. Storyline: In 1967, 19-year-old Susanna (Winona Ryder) feels that "reality is becoming too dense" and is diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. The doctor suggests to her parents that she be committed to the Claymore Hospital, and she spends the next 18 months struggling with her troubled psyche and the bizarre world of the institution. Susanna bonds with several other patients, including ...

Glory Daze (1996) Genre: Comedy Drama, Coming-of-Age, Ensemble Film. Director: Rich Wilkes. Actors: Ben Affleck, Sam Rockwell, Megan Ward, French Stewart, Vien Hong, Vinnie DeRamus, Spalding Gray, Kitty Courbois, Matt Damon, Josse de Pauw, Edwin de Vries, Matthew McConaughey, Camilla Siegertsz, Bart Slegers, Sean Whalen, Mary Woronov, Alyssa Milano, John Rhys-Davies. Storyline: "El Rancho," a sort of punk rock Animal House, is the setting for this college drama. Five roommates live in this group house on the cusp of college graduation. Jack (a mohawk-wearing Ben Affleck) is an art major pining over his ex-girlfriend, while Rob (Sam Rockwell) fears domestication after graduation. The artist of a popular campus comic strip, Mickey (Vinnie DeRamus), is still too s ...

Good Will Hunting (1997) Genre: Drama, Coming-of-Age, Romantic Drama, Psychological Drama. Director: Gus Van Sant. Actors: Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck, Minnie Driver, Stellan Skarsgård, Casey Affleck, Cole Hauser, George Plimpton. Storyline: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck co-scripted and star in this drama, set in Boston and Cambridge, about rebellious 20-year-old MIT janitor Will Hunting (Damon), gifted with a photographic memory, who hangs out with his South Boston bar buddies, his best friend Chuckie (Affleck), and his affluent British girlfriend Skylar (Minnie Driver). After MIT professor Lambeau (Stellan Skarsgard) stumps students wi ...

Gracie (2007) Genre: Drama, Sports Drama, Period Film, Coming-of-Age. Director: Davis Guggenheim. Actors: Carly Schroeder, Elisabeth Shue, Dermot Mulroney, Andrew Shue, Jesse Lee Soffer, Joshua Caras, Julia Garro, Hunter Schroeder, John Doman, Trevor Heins, Christopher Shand, Madison Arnold, Karl Girolamo, Emma Bell, Peter McRobbie, Leslie Lyles, Michael Dean. Storyline: Inspired by the real-life events that followed the untimely 1988 death of William Shue (brother of cast members Elisabeth and Andrew Shue and executive producer John Shue) the feel-good sports drama Gracie unfolds in 1978 New Jersey. 15-year-old Gracie Bowen (newcomer Carly Schroeder) is still reeling from the passing of her brother Johnny (Jesse Lee Soffer), a star player on the high-school socce ...

Hallam Foe (2007) Genre: Comedy Drama, Coming-of-Age, Romantic Comedy, Psychological Drama. Director: David Mackenzie. Actors: Jamie Bell, Sophia Myles, Ciarán Hinds, Jamie Sives, Maurice Roeves, Ewen Bremner, Claire Forlani, Ruthie Milne, John Paul Lawler, Lucy Holt, Malcolm Shields, John Comerford, Gerry Cleary, Paul Blair, Neil McKinven, Stuart Hepburn, Kirsty Shepheard. Storyline: With Hallam Foe, British director Peter MacKenzie and scripter Ed Whitmore adapt the 2002 novel of the same name, a quirky, bittersweet, coming-of-age psychodrama by Peter Jinks. The titular character is the 17-year-old son (Jamie Bell) of a wealthy Scottish businessman (Ciarán Hinds). Still rattled by the death of his mom (who drowned in a nearby loch), Hallam retreats into a deep-seated fantasy ...

Hoot (2006) Genre: Children's/Family, Family-Oriented Adventure, Coming-of-Age. Director: Wil Shriner. Actors: Luke Wilson, Logan Lerman, Brie Larson, Tim Blake Nelson, Cody Linley, Neil Flynn, Clark Gregg, Kiersten Warren, Jessica Cauffiel, Dean Collins, Eric Phillips, Robert Wagner, Robert Donner. Storyline: Three kids have an unexpected adventure as they try to protect some rare birds in this comedy drama based on a book for young adults by Carl Hiaasen. Roy Eberhardt (Logan Lerman) is a 14-year-old boy whose family has moved so often he's literally lost count of the number of times he's changed schools in the last ten years. Roy ought to be used to being the new kid at school by now, but making the ...

How Green Was My Valley (1941) Genre: Drama, Family Drama, Rural Drama, Coming-of-Age, Childhood Drama. Director: John Ford. Actors: Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Donald Crisp, Roddy McDowall, Barry Fitzgerald, Anna Lee, John Loder, Sara Allgood, Patric Knowles, The Welsh Singers, Morton Lowry, Arthur Shields, Frederic Worlock, Richard Fraser, Evan S. Evans, James Monks, Rhys Williams, Clifford Severn, Lionel Pape, Ethel Griffies, Dennis Hoey, Marten Lamont, Eve March, Tudor Williams, Ruth Clifford, Minta Durfee, Herbert Evans, Mary Field, Pauline Garon, Mary Gordon, Gibson Gowland, Ben Hall, Louis Jean Heydt, Tiny Jones, J.M. Kerrigan, Mae Marsh, Una O'Connor, Irving Pichel, Ann E. Todd. Storyline: Sorry, no description is available yet for this movie...

How She Move (2007) Genre: Drama, Coming-of-Age, Urban Drama. Director: Ian Iqbal Rashid. Actors: Rutina Wesley, Tracey 'Tre' Armstrong, Dwain Murphy, Brennan Gademans, Kevin Duhaney, Shawn Desman, Melanie Nicholls-King, Keyshia Cole, DeRay Davis, Tanisa Scott, Conrad Coates, Kardinal Offishall, Djanet Sears, Alison Sealy-Smith, Mya, Clé Bennett, Romina D'Ugo, Tristan D. Lalla, Daniel Morrison. Storyline: An aspiring medical student whose drug-addicted sister has recently died and who may be forced to relocate from her posh private school to the crime-infested neighborhood in which she was raised enters a step-dancing competition in hope of securing the funds needed to continue her education. Unable to afford the tuition needed to fund her private-school education, ambitious teen Raya returns to he ...

In the Land of Women (2007) Genre: Comedy Drama, Coming-of-Age, Romantic Drama. Director: Jon Kasdan. Actors: Adam Brody, Kristen Stewart, Meg Ryan, Olympia Dukakis, Makenzie Vega, Elena Anaya, Clark Gregg, JoBeth Williams, Dustin Milligan, Ginnifer Goodwin, Kelsey Keel, Danielle Savre, Gina Mantegna, Robert Reinis, Graham Wardle, Elise Gatien, Christine Danielle, Jeff Cunningham, Tamara Lovegrove, Brittany Starling, Ilyse Mimoun, Karin Konoval, Angus, Bret Harrison, Lindsay Sloane. Storyline: A man having trouble with women suddenly finds himself surrounded by them in this independent comedy drama. Carter Webb (Adam Brody) is a successful writer who has fallen into an emotional tailspin after his girlfriend, well-known actress Sophia (Elena Anaya), breaks up with him. When Carter learns that his grandmother (Olympia Dukakis) is in failing health, he decides to leave California and retu ...

Juno (2007) Genre: Comedy Drama, Coming-of-Age, Domestic Comedy, Ensemble Film. Director: Jason Reitman, Joe Drake. Actors: Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jason Bateman, Jennifer Garner, Allison Janney, J.K. Simmons, Olivia Thirlby, Eileen Pedde, Daniel Clark, Darla Vandenbossche, Aman Johal, Valerie Tian, Emily Perkins, Kaaren de Zilva, Steven Christopher Parker, Candice Accola, Sierra Pitkin, Cut Chemist, Eve Harlow, Kirsten Williamson, Emily Tennant, Ashley Whillans, Colin McSween, Peggy Logan, Cameron Bright, Joy Galmut, Wendy Russell, Robyn Ross, Dallas Hanson, Bryson Russell, Derek Mann, Keith Frost, Grayson Grant, Robin Watts, Tyler Watts, Brandon Barton, Jeff Witzke, Josephine Reitman, Oliver Gorin, Ethan Steelberg, Matthew Sanders. Storyline: When a teenage girl is faced with an unexpected pregnancy, she enlists the aid of her best friend in finding the unborn child a suitable home in this coming-of-age comedy drama from Thank You for Smoking director Jason Reitman. Juno (Ellen Page) may seem wise beyond her years, but after sleeping with classmate Bleeker (Michael Cera), the pregnant teen quickly realizes how little she really knows a ...

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