Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Youth: 459 Films to Buy & Rent
Edge of Seventeen (2000)
- Dir. David Morton
Feat. Thomas Arklie
- With its drab mid–1980s Ohio setting, complete with pastel clothing, Boy George–inspired haircuts and Bronksi Beat music, this puts a…
Finding Forrester (2000)
- Dir. Gus Van Sant
Feat. Sean Connery, Rob Brown, Anna Paquin…
- Dir. Van Sant reprises the outlines of his own GOOD WILL HUNTING, with Sean Connery nurturing the wayward talent of basketballing teenager Rob Brown.
George Washington (2000)
- Dir. David Gordon Green
Feat. Candace Evanofski, Donald Holden, Damian Jewan Lee
- With impressionistic widescreen photography, this low–key coming–of–age film frames its North Carolinan setting as the key player…
Girlfight (2000)
- Dir. Karyn Kusama
Feat. Michelle Rodriguez
- A teenage girl breaks out of her working–class rut by training as a boxer, an arena that presents sexual prejudice as her chief opponent.…
Gossip (2000)
- Dir. Davis Guggenheim
Feat. Lena Headey, Kate Hudson, Norman Reedus…
- Three media students decide to create a story out of pure, unfounded gossip, targeting a affluent and prudish classmate.
The story of her sexual…
Groove (2000)
- Dir. Greg Harrison
Feat. Mackenzie Firgens, Lola Glaudini, Denny Kirkwood
- A night out at a San Francisco rave, evoking with dope–fuelled delirium the chaos as various party–goers either groove, burnout, get lost…
He Died with a Felafel in His Hand (2000)
- Dir. Richard Lowenstein
Feat. Noah Taylor, Sophie Lee, Ian Hughes
- Ramshackle Aussie comedy based on the cult novel, that follows the fortunes of blocked wannabe writer Noah Taylor in a series of flatting…
Liam (2000)
- Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Anthony Borrows, Ian Hart, Claire Hackett
- Exploring an Irish childhood made grim by Roman Catholicism, this is like a more intimate ANGELA’S ASHES, governed as it is by the point of view of…
O (Othello) (2000)
- Dir. Tim Blake Nelson
Feat. Josh Hartnett, Mekhi Phifer, Julia Stiles
- Continuing recent trends, this ‘updating’ of Shakespeare’s ”Othello” transfers the dialogue and setting into the US schoolyard, where Josh…
Platform (Zhantai) (2000)
- Dir. Jia Zhang-ke
Feat. Zhao Tao
- Taking its title from a Chinese hit rock song of the 80s, this fetchingly spare epic meditates on the changes of that turbulent decade and the…