Coming-of-Age
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    House of D (2005)

    His son's 13th birthday prompts an artist to revisit his own adolescence in New York's Greenwich...

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    Crossover (2006)

    The lives of a gifted athlete (Wesley Jonathan) and his best friend (Anthony Mackie) change when...

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    Summer Storm (2006)

    The captain (Robert Stadlober) of a high-school rowing team has romantic feelings for his best...

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    The Graduate (1967)

    An aimless college man (Dustin Hoffman) lets an older woman (Anne Bancroft) seduce him, then finds...

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    National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)

    Bluto (John Belushi), Otter (Kevin Bacon) and the rowdy Deltas make fools of the dean and the square...

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    A Plumm Summer (2008)

    In 1968 Montana, two brothers and a plucky neighbor become amateur sleuths and set out to find the...

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    Edward Scissorhands (1990)

    A deceased inventor's unfinished creation (Johnny Depp) becomes an instant celebrity when a cheery...

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    Cooley High (1975)

    Two high-school pals (Glynn Turman, Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs) hang out, face a teacher and flee the...

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    Annapolis (2006)

    A young man from the wrong side of the tracks realizes his dream of entering the U.S. Naval Academy...

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    Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)

    A cool teen (Matthew Broderick) plays hooky in Chicago with his girlfriend (Mia Sara), his buddy...

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    ATL (2006)

    Four Atlanta teenagers, whose lives revolve around hip-hop and rollerskating, face life-changing...

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    Dirty Dancing (1987)

    A doctor's (Jerry Orbach) teenage daughter (Jennifer Grey) gets slinky with the dance teacher...

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    A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006)

    A writer (Robert Downey Jr.) thinks about his childhood in a violent neighborhood in Queens, N.Y.,...

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    Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986)

    Based on Neil Simon's play about a gullible Jewish teen (Jonathan Silverman) and his working-class...

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    Class (1983)

    A preppie (Andrew McCarthy) acts like a Ph.D. candidate in a bar and picks up an older woman...

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    Little Odessa (1995)

    A job returns a Russian-Jewish hit man (Tim Roth) to his family (Edward Furlong) and the Mafia in...

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    The Education of Charlie Banks (2009)

    A college student (Jesse Eisenberg) fears the worst when a bully (Jason Ritter) from his high school...

  • How Green Was My Valley picture
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    How Green Was My Valley (1941)

    Five Oscars went to John Ford's adaptation of Richard Llewellyn's novel chronicling the life of a...

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    Little Man Tate (1991)

    A single mother (Jodie Foster) lets her boy-genius son (Adam Hann-Byrd) move in with a rich woman...

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    Empire of the Sun (1987)

    Steven Spielberg's acclaimed account of an English boy's life in a WWII internment camp in...

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    Garden State (2004)

    An emotionally numb actor (Zach Braff) finds a soulmate in a quirky young woman after he returns to...

  • Happy Birthday, Gemini picture
    Movies

    Happy Birthday, Gemini (1980)

    This routine drama-comedy about the trials of walking out of the closet has some notable...

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    Boys (1996)

    A bored high-school senior (Lukas Haas) falls for a mystery woman (Winona Ryder) somehow linked to a...

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    A Walk to Remember (2002)

    Forced to tutor students at a school, a young delinquent (Shane West) falls for a minister's (Peter...

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    Finding Forrester (2000)

    While studying at a prep school, an aspiring writer (Rob Brown) befriends a reclusive author (Sean...

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    About a Boy (2002)

    An irresponsible playboy (Hugh Grant) becomes emotionally attached to a woman's (Toni Collette)...

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    1969 (1988)

    Two anti-war college buddies (Robert Downey Jr., Kiefer Sutherland) hitchhike home, offend people...

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    Napoleon Dynamite (2004)

    A gawky teenager (Jon Heder) from an odd family (Jon Gries, Aaron Ruell) helps his new friend run...

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    Palindromes (2005)

    Aviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father,...

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    Interiors (1978)

    A perfectionist (Geraldine Page) frustrates her daughters and drives out her husband (E.G....