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A list of movies that focus on the struggles and challenges of children and teenagers as they grow up. Includes classics like The Breakfast Club, American Graffiti, and Stand by Me, as well as more recent films like Almost Famous and Perks of Being a Wallflower.
- Stand By Me. For a genre that’s all about young people, death is absolutely everywhere in coming-of-age movies. Its shadow is all over Stand By Me: when we meet 12-year-old Gordie, he’s lost his brother and his parents are too deep in grief to notice, and he and his three pals go on a quest to find the corpse of a boy their age.
- Boyhood. For most coming-of-age movies, the coming-of-age thing is a shorthand. It’s a rough outline of where you’re heading, not a promise. But Richard Linklater’s 12-year project is not most coming-of-age movies.
- Moonlight. In Barry Jenkins’ Best Picture-winner, we follow the protagonist through three stages of his life – as a child, Little (Alex Hibbert), taken under the wing of local drug dealer Juan (Mahershala Ali); as a teenager, Chiron (Ashley Sanders), isolated at school and tentatively experimenting with his burgeoning sexuality; and as an adult, Black (Trevante Rhodes), who hides his desire for tenderness under exaggerated trappings of traditional masculinity.
- The Graduate. At his audition to play post-college drifter Benjamin Braddock, Dustin Hoffman was uncertain. He’d never done a love scene, for one thing, and doubted very much whether anyone would buy that a woman like Katherine Ross would ever fancy him.
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- 'Almost Famous' (2000) Director: Cameron Crowe. Almost Famous helped the 21st century get off to a great start, as it was one of the best movies released in 2000.
- 'Y Tu Mamá También' (2001) Director: Alfonso Cuarón. Before he directed a Harry Potter movie and incredible works of science fiction like Children of Men and Gravity, Alfonso Cuarón also made one of the 21st century's best coming-of-age movies.
- 'American Graffiti' (1973) Director: George Lucas. Perhaps most well-known for being a Harrison Ford film directed by George Lucas before they became synonymous with the most famous sci-fi movie ever, American Graffiti also happens to be a coming-of-age classic.
- 'The Graduate' (1967) Director: Mike Nichols. Any young people living today who struggle with the early stages of adulthood may take some comfort in watching 1967's The Graduate.
Dec 28, 2020 · The best coming-of-age movies tap into something inside each of us—that common thread of growing up that is so relatable, even though we don't all come from the same backgrounds or...
The ultimate coming of age movie list. theskykid.com is the largest site with a focus on the Coming-of-Age genre. Many of the films included in this list are featured on the site - as well as interviews with some of the directors and the actors.
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Mar 14, 2023 · The coming-of-age movie is a well-tested, familiar, and deeply evocative type of film that transcends genre, age, historical period, and so much more, all to deliver to the viewer a sense...
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