Subgenre Sampler
Youth: 919 Films to Buy & Rent
Sky High (2005)
- Dir. Mike Mitchell
Feat. Michael Angarano, Kurt Russell, Kelly Preston…
- Likeable family comedy set in a future where superheroes are trained as teenagers at special schools, such as the 'Sky High' of the title, before…
Standing Still (2005)
- Dir. Matthew Cole Weiss
Feat. Adam Garcia, Amy Adams, Melissa Sagemiller…
- Stacked American indie gathers an attractive ensemble of twenty–somethings around a wedding doubling as a long–overdue reunion of college…
Suite Life of Zack and Cody, The (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Dylan Sprouse, Cole Sprouse, Ashley Tisdale…
- Fun kids TV sitcom series from the Disney Channel starring real–life identical twins as two mischievous brothers who live in a hotel with their…
Tsotsi (2005)
- Dir. Gavin Hood
Feat. Presley Chweneyagae
- Deserved winner of the 2006 Foreign Language Oscar, this gripping tale of a young homicidal street–thug ('tsotsi') in post–apartheid…
Twelve and Holding (12 and Holding) (2005)
- Dir. Michael Cuesta
Feat. Jeremy Renner, Zoe Weizenbaum, Conor Donovan…
- A dark yet heart–rending coming–of–age indie drama concerning a group of pre–teens coping with life in the aftermath of a…
Wassup Rockers (2005)
- Dir. Larry Clark
Feat. Jonathan Velasquez, Francisco Pedrasa, Milton Velasquez
- Teen–centric misanthropist Larry Clark offers a shockingly enthusiastic view of contemporary youth in this story of Latino…
13 Going on 30 (2004)
- Dir. Gary Winick
Feat. Jennifer Garner, Mark Ruffalo, Andy Serkis…
- A winning variation on the "body swaparoo", with an unhappy teenager waking from her 13th birthday to find time fast–forwarded and herself a…
6 AM (2004)
- Dir. Adrian Kwan
Feat. Kenny Kwan, Steven Cheung, Charlene Choi…
- Popular Canto–pop duo ‘The Boy’z’ star in this absurdist gangster tale, playing high school slackers ‘Bowl’ and ‘Noodle’ who…
Bullet Boy (2004)
- Dir. Saul Dibb
Feat. Ashley Walters
- Tough expose of London's violent East End tracks the spiralling events and dire consequences which follow the release of a young black man (Walters)…
C.R.A.Z.Y. (Crazy) (2004)
- Dir. Jean-Marc Vallée
Feat. Marc-André Grondin, Danielle Proulx, Michel Côté
- Rockin' and colourful rites–of–passage drama evolves out an adolescent boy's (Grondin) experiences as part of an unusual family during…