21 and Over (2013)
The night before his big medical school exam, a promising student celebrates his 21st birthday with his two best friends.
Cast:
Miles Teller, Skylar Astin, Justin Chon, Sarah Wright, Jonathan Keltz
Foxes (1980)
A group of four teenage girls in the San Fernando Valley, and the usual problems teenagers has to cope with. Deidre is fascinated by sex, Madge is unhappily overweight, Annie is into drugs and Jeanie has to take care of all of them. They think that the school is a waste of time, their boyfriends immature and the grown-ups come from another planet.
Cast:
Jodie Foster, Cherie Currie, Marilyn Kagan, Kandice Stroh
The Heartbreak Kid (1993)
Michael Jenkins’ movie “The Heartbreak Kid” centres on the coming of age relationship between a teacher (Claudia Karvin), and a wild and spirited student (Alex Demitrides). The teacher , Christiana jolts the young man, Nicks sexuality beyond belief. This story is centred in the Australian-Greek life upbringing which Nick is shown the truth about street life. Christiana is locked into traditions of how women are restricted into Greek traditions of women in the work place. Also how she commits herself into destined life of marriage with children which leaves her living across the street with her mom and dad.
Cast:
Claudia Karvan, Alex Dimitriades
Heaven Help Us (1985)
In this coming-of-age comedy set in 1965, Michael Dunn is a recently orphaned Boston teenager who is sent with his younger sister to live with their grandparents in Brooklyn. Once there, he befriends his misfit Catholic school classmates and a reluctant young monk, rebelling and discovering who they are, and often with hilarious results. Michael also falls for Dani, the local hangout owner’s tough-as-nails daughter. But the repressive monks of St. Basil’s will stop at nothing to prove that their ways are the right ways and their word is law…even if it means destroying their relationship.
Cast:
Andrew McCarthy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Kevin Dillon
Fresh Horses (1988)
A Cincinnati college student breaks off his engagement to his wealthy fiancée after he falls in love with a backwoods Kentucky girl he meets at a party. She claims to be 20 years old, but he learns that she’s actually just 16 and already married.
Cast:
Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy, Ben Stiller, Viggo Mortensen
Camp (2003)
Misfits in their lives back home, a group of young people live it up at musical-theater camp. While the sports counselor is completely ignored, the kids’ spend all their time in rehearsal for a grueling schedule that involves a new show every two weeks. Several personal stories come to the fore. Is talented golden-boy Vlad honest in his feelings about Ellen? Can cross-dressing Michael have a relationship with his parents? Will one-hit-wonder musical playwrite and now camp counselor Bert Hanley remain mired in drink and cynicism? Fireworks are in store when Fritzi, who slavishly serves glamour girl Jill, is finally told to get a life, and the parents of Jenna, whose jaw has been wired shut in a compromise to avoid being sent to “fat camp”, learn a valuable lesson at the summer’s big end-of-season benefit.
Cast:
Daniel Letterle, Joanna Chilcoat, Anna Kendrick, Alana Allen, Robin de Jesus, Steven Cutts, Vince Rimoldi
Staying Together (1989)
After 25 years in the fast food business, father McDermott one morning proclaims in front of his three sons that he hated dealing with chickens all the time, and that’s why he sold the restaurant last afternoon. For his sons, who counted on taking it over some time, this comes as a shock. With the oldest son Brian moving out in rage and frustration, the family starts breaking apart. Will they manage to rearrange their lives and reconcile with their parents?
Cast:
Sean Astin, Daphne Zuniga, Dermot Mulroney, Tim Quill
Tex (1982)
Coming-of-age adventure about two teenage brothers and their struggles to grow up, on their own, after their mother dies and their father leaves them.
Cast:
Matt Dillon, Emilio Estevez
Crossroads (2002)
Three friends get together and bury a box making a pact to open it at midnight at their high school graduation. In the little town in Georgia that they live in, things soon change. One is little miss perfect, one is an engaged prom queen, and the other is a pregnant outcast. The night of graduation, they open the box and they strike up a conversation. All of a sudden, one brings up the topic of her going to Los Angeles for a record contract audition. They all decide to go together and they leave. With a little money, they set out on the road with a guy named Ben. When one of them tells the other a rumor that he might be a homicidal maniac they are all scared of him. When they reach LA, Lucy (Britney Spears) falls in love with Ben and against her father’s wishes, she stays and she goes to the audition.
Cast:
Britney Spears, Anson Mount, Zoe Saldana, Taryn Manning
Grandview, U.S.A. (1984)
Life in the small town of Grandview, Illinois is one that is just like any other city or town. Tim Pearson, soon to be graduating high school wants to go to Florida to study oceanography. He meets Michelle “Mike” Cody and is attracted to her. She runs the local Demolition Derby place. Ernie “Slam” Webster is on of the drivers in the derby who’s wife is cheating on him and wants to later on be with Mike. Tim falls for Mike and a big love triangle is about to happen.
Cast:
Jamie Lee Curtis, C. Thomas Howell, Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Jason Leigh
