Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Youth: 96 Films to Rent on VHS
- Urban Legend (1998)
- Dir. Jamie Blanks
Feat. Alicia Witt, Danielle Harris
- A serial killer is offing students in the manner of various urban legends (grisly rumours that become so commonly known they're accepted as fact).…
- Whatever (1998)
- Dir. Susan Skoog
Feat. Lisa Weil
- Beset by apathy, uncertainty and her indulgent best friend, a teenage girl falls victim to her own adolescence while trying to complete her final…
- Young Person's Guide to Becoming a Rock Star, The (1998)
- Dir. Sheree Folkson, Kieron Walsh
Feat. Ciaran McMenamin, Simone Lahbib, Nicole Stapleton…
- Young persons are the target of the whimsical Scottish TV series following the fortunes of an eclectic rock group who go from garage nobodies to gain…
- All Over Me (1997)
- Dir. Alex Sichel
Feat. Alison Folland, Tara Subkoff, Cole Hauser…
- A lesbian festival hit that has 'crossover' hit written all over it, as it persuasively pinpoints some of the universal, intense emotions of…
- Daria (TV Series) (1997-2002)
- Derisive cult animation series starring the ultimate high school anti–heroine – Daria Morgendorffer – a bookish student who keeps…
- Hurricane Streets (1997)
- Dir. Morgan J. Freeman
Feat. Brendon Sexton III, Antoine McLean
- The excellent Brendan Sexton III (WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE) does a sympathetic about–turn for this unflashy take on teenage delinquency.
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- Slab Boys, The (1997)
- Dir. John Byrne
Feat. Russell Barr, Bill Gardiner, Robin Laing…
- A quiff–headed rites–of–passage in dead–end 1950s Scotland, follows three apprentice dripheads at a carpet factory and their…
- Suburbia (1997)
- Dir. Richard Linklater
Feat. Giovanni Ribisi, Parker Posey, Steve Zahn…
- Dir. Linklater returns to his favourite milieu – the teen angst movie – only this time working from someone else's material, a play by…
- Sugar Factory, The (1997)
- Dir. Robert Carter
Feat. Matt Day
- The director adapts his novel about a disturbed Aussie teenager (Matt Day) searching for love and meaning in his life after a string of traumatic…
- Trojan War (1997)
- Dir. George Huang
Feat. Will Friedle, Jennifer Love Hewitt
- Comic misadventures beset a young turk who scours the town in search of a condom in order to consummate with the ready–and–willing girl…