Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Comedy > Youth: 258 Films to Rent on DVD
- Crossroads (2002)
- Dir. Tamra Davis
Feat. Britney Spears, Zoe Saldana, Taryn Manning…
- Britney Spears hits the screen and the road as a teen searching for her long–lost mother. A couple of pals with their own ‘issues’…
- Igby Goes Down (2002)
- Dir. Burr Steers
Feat. Kieran Culkin, Claire Danes, Jeff Goldblum…
- More than meets the eye in this indie New York satire about an over–educated ‘slacker’ experiencing growing pains amid upper…
- Orange County (2002)
- Dir. Jake Kasdan
Feat. Colin Hanks, Jack Black, Harold Ramis…
- Wannabe teen author Colin Hanks (son of Tom) aspires to an ivory–tower creative–writing course but first must extricate himself from a…
- Ping Pong (2002)
- Dir. Fumisiko Sori
Feat. Yôsuke Kubozuka, Arata
- A madcap, yet gently humourous Japanese sports tale, set around two table tennis hotshots (Kubozuka and Arata) preparing for a ferocious battle at a…
- Raising Victor Vargas (2002)
- Dir. Peter Sollett
Feat. Victor Rasuk, Judy Marte
- A sensitive, appealing urban coming of age story set in a Hispanic New York subculture that rewardingly favours low–key incident over…
- Spanish Apartment, The (L'Auberge Espagnole) (2002)
- Dir. Cedric Klapisch
Feat. Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou, Judith Godreche…
- Summery comedy set in a Barcelona apartment, where six international exchange students variously mingle, cavort and fall messily in love.
Although…
- 40 Days and 40 Nights (2001)
- Dir. Michael Lehmann
Feat. Josh Hartnett, Shannyn Sossamon
- 'Troubled' by the fallout from his last break–up Josh Hartnett decides that to break out of serial monogamy he must abstain from sex for Lent…
- American Pie 2 (2001)
- Dir. J.B. Rogers
Feat. Jason Biggs, Chris Klein, Natasha Lyonne…
- A second helping of pie is likely to cause groans of indigestion for all but the most unsophisticated palates, mincing the same teen hormonal…
- Chain of Fools (2001)
- Dir. Traktor
Feat. Salma Hayek, Steve Zahn, Jeff Goldblum…
- Comic–thriller concerning a stash of stolen gold, notable more for a great cast than for comic thrills, though it has its admirers.
- Get Over It (2001)
- Dir. Tommy O’Haver
Feat. Kirsten Dunst, Ben Foster, Melissa Sagemiller…
- Although helped by the charisma of Kirsten Dunst, this teen–movie retreads many of the usual formulas, with hero Ben Foster losing his…