Subgenre Sampler
Comedy > Youth: 284 Films to Buy & Rent
- First Daughter (2004)
- Dir. Forest Whitaker
Feat. Katie Holmes, Mark Blucas, Michael Keaton
- Katie Holmes scrubs up nicely as the daughter of the US President heading off to college for an inexperienced taste of freedom, inevitably getting…
- Garden State (2004)
- Dir. Zach Braff
Feat. Zach Braff, Natalie Portman, Ian Holm…
- Sitcom actor Zach Braff compliments his career in "Scrubs" as the ambitious writer, director and star of this personal, melancholy comedy that became…
- Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle (Harold and Kumar get the Munchies) (2004)
- Dir. Danny Leiner
Feat. Kal Penn, John Cho
- An ethnic spin on the low–brow youth comedy formula from the dir. of DUDE, WHERE'S MY CAR that prays at the altar of dope and junk…
- Mean Girls (2004)
- Dir. Mark Waters
Feat. Lindsay Lohan, Lacey Chabert, Tina Fey…
- The appealing Lindsay Lohan plays a teenager who moves from her African jungle home (her parents are zoologists) to the jungle of a Chicago…
- Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
- Dir. Jared Hess
Feat. Jon Heder, Jon Gries, Aaron Ruell…
- Destined for cult status, this plays like a high school comedy made by its alienated students, with its quirky in–jokes and non–sequiturs…
- Raise Your Voice (2004)
- Dir. Sean McNamara
Feat. Hilary Duff, John Corbett, Rita Wilson…
- The fetching Hilary Duff plays an aspiring young singer from Arizona, who after the tragic death of her brother, elopes to a music–training…
- Saved! (2004)
- Dir. Brian Dannelly
Feat. Jena Malone, Mandy Moore, Macaulay Culkin…
- Satire of 90s Christian teen mores sees Jena Malone ostracised by her righteous friends after becoming pregnant. Surprising lack of bite is…
- Sleepover (2004)
- Dir. Joe Nussbaum
Feat. Alexa Vega, Mika Boorem, Jane Lynch…
- The 'tweenie' star of SPY KIDS, Alexa Vega, ventures into more conventional mission with this slightly tweaked high–school comedy in which…
- Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! (2004)
- Dir. Robert Luketic
Feat. Kate Bosworth, Josh Duhamel, Topher Grace…
- Quality fluff, with Bosworth playing a smalltown girl who wins the titular date, expecting a one–off evening, but gaining an ardent…
- American Pie 3 (American Wedding) (2003)
- Dir. Jesse Dylan
Feat. Jason Biggs, Eugene Levy, Seann William Scott
- Third in the series of raunchy–on–top comedies, this offers little that's new, but does manage to be better than expected.
With two of…