Subgenre Sampler
Youth: 924 Films to Buy & Rent
Kidulthood (2006)
- Dir. Menhaj Huda
- Authentic and bleak slice of West London street life in which a group of jive–talking teenagers plot their moves in the 48 hours after a…
Love is the Drug (Addcited to Her Love) (2006)
- Dir. Elliott Lester
Feat. John Patrick Amedori, Lizzy Caplan, D. J. Cotrona…
- A love triangle turns deadly in this potent immersion into the world of teenage sex and drug–taking. An unfortunate slide into melodrama in the…
Loving Annabelle (2006)
- Dir. Katherine Brooks
Feat. Diana Gaidry, Erin Kelly
- Lesbian drama of forbidden love between a naughty, punkish Catholic schoolgirl and her Sapphic poetry teacher.
Softly sincere and visually very…
Marie Antoinette (2006)
- Dir. Sofia Coppola
Feat. Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Judy Davis…
- Girl wonder Sofia Coppola lets a fetching Kirsten Dunst eat cake (and then some) as a reluctant Queen in late–18th century Versailles, stifled…
Melissa P. (2006)
- Dir. Luca Guadagnino
Feat. Marcello Mazzarella, Maria Valverde
- Saucy, if ultimately restrained memoir of sexual adolescence, concerning a promiscuous teenage girl who seeks solace from her troubled life by…
Sasquatch Dumpling Gang, The (2006)
- Dir. Tim Skousen
Feat. Justin Long, Carl Weathers, Joey Kern…
- A bogus bigfoot turd discovery excites geeks, wonks, cops and redneck bullies in this deadpan teen dork comedy with a top 80s soundtrack and some…
Save The Last Dance 2 (2006)
- Dir. David Petrarca
Feat. Izabella Miko, Jacqueline Bisset
- Not the last dance, but a sequel reprising the aspirations of Sarah (now played by Izabella Miko), here on the verge of attending prestigious…
Starter for 10 (Starter for Ten) (2006)
- Dir. Tom Vaughan
Feat. James McAvoy, Rebecca Hall, Alice Eve…
- Cute but formulaic youthful rom–com set in Thatcher's Britain, with the boyishly handsome James McAvoy as a working–class (yeah, right)…
State's Evidence (2006)
- Dir. Benjamin Louis
Feat. Alexa Vega, Douglas Smith, Majandra Delfino…
- Six high school students make a suicide pact which goes nastily awry, in this prurient youth drama clearly influenced by cinema provocateurs Larry…
Step Up (2006)
- Dir. Anne Fletcher
Feat. Channing Tatum, Rachel Griffiths
- Rigidly adhering to the dance movie formula, two prodigious dancers from the wrong sides of the track become unlikely partners, dancing up a storm at…