Subgenre Sampler
Youth: 912 Films to Buy & Rent
Cherrybomb (2009)
- Dir. Lisa Barros D'Sa, Glenn Leyburn
Feat. Rupert Grint, Robert Sheehan, James Nesbitt…
- Rupert Grint plays against type in this edgy youth drama in which three teenagers go on a wild weekend of drink, drugs, shop–lifting and…
Dare (2009)
- Dir. Adam Salky
Feat. Emmy Rossum, Zach Gilford, Alan Cumming…
- A drama centered around three high school seniors – an aspiring actress, her misfit best friend, and a loner – who become engaged in an…
Dear Lemon Lima (2009)
- Dir. Suzi Yoonessi
Feat. Savanah Wiltfong, Shayne Topp, Eleanor Hutchins…
- Sweetly spun tale of a teen outcast who after experiencing rejection from her high–school crush sets out to find like–minded individuals.
Fish Tank (2009)
- Dir. Andrea Arnold
Feat. Katie Jarvis, Michael Fassbender, Kierston Wareing…
- Full of colourful profanity and hefty doses of working–class belligerence, this assured drama centres around a 15–year–old…
French Kissers, The (Les Beaux Gosses) (2009)
- Dir. Riad Sattouf
Feat. Vincent Lacoste, Anthony Sonigo, Alice Trémolière…
- Gallic hormonal comedy about two unkempt, sex–obsessed adolescents and their wavering exploits with the school's most popular girl.
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Go Girls (TV Series) (2009)
- Feat. Anna Hutchison, Bronwyn Turei, Alix Bushnell…
- A North Shore equivalent of OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE perhaps, but with considerably less bite, this follows four middle–class 20–somethings as…
Greatest, The (2009)
- Dir. Shana Feste
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Susan Sarandon, Carey Mulligan…
- Emotive drama of a family trying to cope with the sudden death of their teenage son and the troubled young woman who enters their life.
Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009)
- Dir. Peter Chelsom
Feat. Miley Cyrus, Billy Ray Cyrus, Emily Osment…
- Musical spin–off of wholesome kids series Hannah Montana sees Miley 'Stewart' (Cyrus) escape to her hometown in Tennessee in order to escape…
High School Revolution (The Trotsky) (2009)
- Dir. Jacob Tierney
Feat. Jay Baruchel, Domini Blythe, Emily Hampshire…
- Smart teen comedy with Baruchel taking the lead as an intensely politicised high–schooler convinced he's the reincarnation of Leon Trotsky.
I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère) (2009)
- Dir. Xavier Dolan
Feat. Xavier Dolan, Anne Dorval, Suzanne Clément…
- An angst ridden teen grapples with growing up gay and his neurotic, overbearing mother in this feisty first feature from young French Canadian…