Subgenre Sampler
Youth: 912 Films to Buy & Rent
First Daughter (2004)
- Dir. Forest Whitaker
Feat. Katie Holmes, Mark Blucas, Michael Keaton
- Katie Holmes scrubs up nicely as the daughter of the US President heading off to college for an inexperienced taste of freedom, inevitably getting…
Garden State (2004)
- Dir. Zach Braff
Feat. Zach Braff, Natalie Portman, Ian Holm…
- Sitcom actor Zach Braff compliments his career in "Scrubs" as the ambitious writer, director and star of this personal, melancholy comedy that became…
Great Journey, The (Grand Voyage, Le) (2004)
- Dir. Ismaël Ferroukhi
Feat. Nicolas Cazalé
- A few weeks before his college entrance exams, a young man finds himself obligated to drive his stubborn father to Mecca. From France through Italy,…
Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle (Harold and Kumar get the Munchies) (2004)
- Dir. Danny Leiner
Feat. Kal Penn, John Cho
- An ethnic spin on the low–brow youth comedy formula from the dir. of DUDE, WHERE'S MY CAR that prays at the altar of dope and junk…
Honey (2004)
- Dir. Billie Woodruff
Feat. Jessica Alba, Mekhi Phifer
- Glossy fable of a community dance choreographer (Alba) who gets the chance to turn hip–hop creativeness into music–video moolah, and help…
Innocence (2004)
- Dir. Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Feat. Zoé Auclair, Lea Bridarolli, Bérangère Haubruge…
- A strange and sinister – but also uttering beguiling – fantasy combining phantasmagorical imagery and a dewy atmosphere to metaphorically…
Machuca (2004)
- Dir. Andres Wood
Feat. Ariel Mateluna, Matias Quer
- Observing the onset of Augusto Pinochet's bloody coup d'etat in Chile in 1973, through the eyes of two boys who become friends across the…
Mean Girls (2004)
- Dir. Mark Waters
Feat. Lindsay Lohan, Lacey Chabert, Tina Fey…
- The appealing Lindsay Lohan plays a teenager who moves from her African jungle home (her parents are zoologists) to the jungle of a Chicago…
Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
- Dir. Jared Hess
Feat. Jon Heder, Jon Gries, Aaron Ruell…
- Destined for cult status, this plays like a high school comedy made by its alienated students, with its quirky in–jokes and non–sequiturs…
Poster Boy (2004)
- Dir. Zak Tucker
Feat. Karen Allen, Michael Lerner, Jack Noseworthy…
- A campaigning right–wing senator conscripts his closeted gay son to play happy families for the public, but the stakes are raised when the son…