Subgenre Sampler
Comedy > Youth: 285 Films to Buy & Rent
Dead Man's Curve (1998)
- Dir. Dan Rosen
Feat. Matthew Lillard, Keri Russell, Dana Delaney
- Taking malicious advantage of a school–policy loophole, two desperate students conspire to dress up the murder of their room–mate as a…
Jawbreaker (1998)
- Dir. Darren Stein
Feat. Rose McGowan
- A trio of teen–queens (incl. Rose McGowan), used to inflicting tongue–lashings on their classmates go onto the back foot when they…
Opposite of Sex, The (1998)
- Dir. Don Roos
Feat. Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan, Lisa Kudrow…
- Teenage tearaway Christina Ricci sets off a wild goose chain of frantically convoluted events when she steals her gay half–brother's boyfriend…
Outside Providence (1998)
- Dir. Michael Corrente
Feat. Alec Baldwin
- The Farrelly Brothers venture towards the deeper end of comedy with a, by turns, idiosyncratic and witless farce about a 70s era teen–stoner…
Pleasantville (1998)
- Dir. Gary Ross
Feat. Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, William H. Macy…
- A pair of nineties teenagers are beamed into a starched black and white 50s TV show, where their modern 'freedoms' gradually liberate/corrupt the…
Rushmore (1998)
- Dir. Wes Anderson
Feat. Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Olivia Williams
- Bamboozling minds everywhere is this oblique comedy from Wes Anderson (BOTTLE ROCKET), re–envisioning that Hollywood mainstay, Highschool USA,…
She's All That (1998)
- Dir. Robert Iscove
Feat. Freddie Prinze Jnr., Anna Paquin
- Charisma of rising star Freddie Prinze Jnr. (a less affected Keanu Reeves) relieves some of the predictability of this high–school variation of…
Slums of Beverly Hills (1998)
- Dir. Tamara Jenkins
Feat. Marisa Tomei, Alan Arkin
- A New York teen comes of age while being dragged around various LA hovels by her poor–schmuck father (Alan Arkin) and her two irritating…
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…
Daria (TV Series) (1997-2002)
- Derisive cult animation series starring the ultimate high school anti–heroine – Daria Morgendorffer – a bookish student who keeps…