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Coming Of Age
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The Breakfast Club
The Breakfast Club is a comedy drama that was directed, written and produced by John Hughes. This highly successful film made one of the largest box office at its time of $51 million. This film made a huge contribution to 'Coming Of Age' films as it was about five students who had to attend a detention and throughout the film the five students become friends. -
Stand By Me
This famous and highly popular film made one of the largest contributions to the 'Coming Of Age' films as it was one of the very first films that the main actors were kids. Directed by Rob Reiner this film is about 4 kids who heard about a man who was accidently killed and the 4 kids set out to go and see the dead body, on the way they encounter a junk man, throughout the film the kids get to know one another more. This is unique to the other films from its time. -
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Ferris Bueller's Day Off is a comedy that was written, directed and produced by John Hughes. The film is about how 'Ferris Bueller' skipped school and had 'A Day Off'. This 1986 film was a huge success as it was one of the very first high school comedy films. This film made one the biggest contribution to 'Coming of Age' films as it was one of the very first ones. -
American Pie
American Pie is a extremely successful production. This film being completely different from the other films at its time, it quickly became one of the most respected film productions of its time. This film stars actors that were not popular or famous at the time. However after several sequials they have become highly acclaimed actors. This being one of the highest budget to box office ratio film, budget $11 million, box office $235 million This film made the biggest contribution to coming of age -
Almost Famous
Almost Famous is a comdey drama that was not so successful compared to some of the other 'Coming of Age' flms on this list. This film production actually made a loss of $20 million. However regardless of its unsuccessful box office this film still made a large contribution to the 'Coming of Age' films, as this was based on a teenager who wanted to be a rock journalist and showed the journey of this teenage boy to become a rock music journalist. -
Mean Girls
Mean Girls is a successful comedy directed by Mark Waters and written by Tina Fey. The film starred Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Tina Fey, Lacey Chabert and Amanda Seyfred (Her film debut). This highly successful film jump started the career of many of the staring actors and production team. This film made a huge contribution to the 'Coming of Age' films as it was one of few films that was purley based on a teenage girls progression through high school. -
Superbad
Superbad is a teen comdey staring Jonah Hill and Micheal Cera. Released in 2007 August 17th this film was highly succesful with a box office of $169.9 million. This film contributed to the coming of age film collection and jump started the careers of Jonah Hill and Seth Rogan (writer and stared in the film) -
Boyhood
Filmed over 12 years, this high acclaimed film won six academy awards. Boyhood is about a six year old boy and his progression inlife. The story is about the rough life that the six year old boy and his sister have over the 12 years.The unique part about this film is that you can see the actors age as the film goes on. I tihnk this is different and that it makes this film different from other films as it clearly shows the progression of the life of a six year old boy.
