History of Coming of Age Films

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    History of Coming of Age Films

  • Rebel Without a Cause

    Rebel Without a Cause
    Director: Nicholas Ray
    Genre: Drama
    Plot: After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching for some stability, Stark forms a bond with a disturbed classmate, Plato, and falls for local girl Judy. However, Judy is the girlfriend of neighborhood tough, Buzz. When Buzz violently confronts Jim and challenges him to a drag race,

  • American Graffiti

    American Graffiti
    Director: George Lucas
    Genre: Comedy Drama
    Plot: On the last day of summer, friends Curt, Steve, Terry and John cruise the streets of small-town California while a mysterious disc jockey spins classic rock'n'roll tunes. It's the last night before their grown-up lives begin, and Steve's high-school sweetheart, a bratty adolescent and a disappearing angel in a Thunderbird prrovide all the excitement they can handle.

  • The Breakfast Club

    The Breakfast Club
    Director: John Hughes
    Genre: Comedy Drama
    Plot: The storyline follows five teenagers, each a member of a different high school clique, who spend a Saturday in detention together and come to realize that they are all more than their respective stereotypes, while facing a strict disciplinarian principal.

  • Ferris Beuller's Day Off

    Ferris Beuller's Day Off
    Director: John Hughes
    Genre: Comedy
    Plot: High school senior Ferris Bueller decides to skip school by faking an illness to his parents, then encourages his girlfriend, Sloane, and his pessimistic best friend Cameron to spend the day in Chicago before they graduate and head off to different colleges.

  • Stand by Me

    Stand by Me
    Director: Rob Reiner
    Genre: Drama Adventure
    Plot: After learning that a stranger has been accidentally killed near their rural homes, four Oregon boys decide to go see the body. On the way, Gordie Lachance, Vern Tessio, Chris Chambers and Teddy Duchamp encounter a mean junk man and a marsh full of leeches, as they also learn more about one another and their very different home lives. Just a lark at first, the boys' adventure evolves

  • Romeo + Juliet

    Romeo + Juliet
    Director: Baz Luhrmann
    Genre: Romantic drama
    An adaptation of the original (1968)
    Plot: The Capulets and the Montagues are two rival gangs. Juliet is attending a costume ball thrown by her parents. Her father Fulgencio Capulet has arranged her marriage to the boorish Paris as part of a strategic investment plan. Romeo attends the masked ball and he and Juliet fall in love.

  • Mean Girls

    Mean Girls
    Director: Mark Waters
    Genre: Comedy
    Plot: Cady Heron was educated in Africa by her scientist parents. When her family moves to the suburbs of Illinois, Cady finally gets to experience public school and gets a quick primer on the cruel, tacit laws of popularity that divide her fellow students into tightly knit cliques. She unwittingly finds herself hanging out with a popular group called "The Plastics" Cady soon realizes how her shallow group of new friends earned this nickname.

  • Juno

    Juno
    Director: Jason Reitman
    Genre: Comedy drama
    Plot: When precocious teen Juno MacGuff becomes pregnant, she chooses a failed rock star and his wife to adopt her unborn child. Complications occur when Mark, the prospective father, begins viewing Juno as more than just the mother of his future child, putting both his marriage and the adoption in jeopardy.

  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower

    The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    Director: Stephen Chbosky
    Genre: Romantic Drama
    Plot: Teen Charlie is a wallflower, always watching life from the sidelines, until two charismatic students become his mentors. Free-spirited Sam and her stepbrother Patrick, help Charlie discover the joys of friendship, first love, music and more, while a teacher sparks Charlie's dreams of becoming a writer. However, as his new friends prepare to leave for college, Charlie's inner sadness threatens to shatter his newfound confidence.

  • Boyhood

    Boyhood
    Director: Richard Linklater
    Genre: Drama
    Plot: The joys and pitfalls of growing up are seen through the eyes of a child named Mason, his parents and his sister. Vignettes, filmed with the same cast over the course of 12 years, capture family meals, road trips, birthday parties, graduations and other important milestones.