Subgenre Sampler
Youth: 903 Films to Buy & Rent
- Accidents Happen (2009)
- Dir. Andrew Lancaster
Feat. Geena Davis, Harrison Gilbertson, Harry Cook…
- Earnest dramedy enlivened by a sensationally brash Geena Davis performance. Davis plays the mother of a deeply dysfunctional family who's lives are…
- Adventureland (2009)
- Dir. Greg Mottola
Feat. Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Ryan Reynolds…
- Low–key indie comedy set in 1987 where a virginal high–school grad gets a summer job at a local amusement park and finds unlikely…
- An Education (2009)
- Dir. Lone Scherfig
Feat. Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina…
- An assured and alluring coming–of–age drama set in swinging sixties London (1961 in fact), with teenage ingenue Carey Mulligan falling in…
- Cherrybomb (2009)
- Dir. Lisa Barros D'Sa, Glenn Leyburn
Feat. Rupert Grint, Robert Sheehan, James Nesbitt…
- Rupert Grint plays against type in this edgy youth drama in which three teenagers go on a wild weekend of drink, drugs, shop–lifting and…
- Dare (2009)
- Dir. Adam Salky
Feat. Emmy Rossum, Zach Gilford, Alan Cumming…
- A drama centered around three high school seniors – an aspiring actress, her misfit best friend, and a loner – who become engaged in an…
- Dear Lemon Lima (2009)
- Dir. Suzi Yoonessi
Feat. Savanah Wiltfong, Shayne Topp, Eleanor Hutchins…
- Sweetly spun tale of a teen outcast who after experiencing rejection from her high–school crush sets out to find like–minded individuals.
- Fish Tank (2009)
- Dir. Andrea Arnold
Feat. Katie Jarvis, Michael Fassbender, Kierston Wareing…
- Full of colourful profanity and hefty doses of working–class belligerence, this assured drama centres around a 15–year–old…
- French Kissers, The (Les Beaux Gosses) (2009)
- Dir. Riad Sattouf
Feat. Vincent Lacoste, Anthony Sonigo, Alice Trémolière…
- Gallic hormonal comedy about two unkempt, sex–obsessed adolescents and their wavering exploits with the school's most popular girl.
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- Go Girls (TV Series) (2009)
- Feat. Anna Hutchison, Bronwyn Turei, Alix Bushnell…
- A North Shore equivalent of OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE perhaps, but with considerably less bite, this follows four middle–class 20–somethings as…
- Greatest, The (2009)
- Dir. Shana Feste
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Susan Sarandon, Carey Mulligan…
- Emotive drama of a family trying to cope with the sudden death of their teenage son and the troubled young woman who enters their life.