Subgenre Sampler
Youth: 912 Films to Buy & Rent
Pure (2004)
- Dir. Jim Donovan
Feat. Giancarlo Caltabiano, Robert Crooks, Laura Jordan
- Boasting one of the hottest music scenes in recent years, Montreal takes centre stage in this character–driven piece involving a girl torn…
Raise Your Voice (2004)
- Dir. Sean McNamara
Feat. Hilary Duff, John Corbett, Rita Wilson…
- The fetching Hilary Duff plays an aspiring young singer from Arizona, who after the tragic death of her brother, elopes to a music–training…
Rhythm Is It! (2004)
- Dir. Thomas Grube
- The Berlin Philharmonic’s ambitious and dramatic undertaking – to school 250 children in a staging of Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" – is…
Saved! (2004)
- Dir. Brian Dannelly
Feat. Jena Malone, Mandy Moore, Macaulay Culkin…
- Satire of 90s Christian teen mores sees Jena Malone ostracised by her righteous friends after becoming pregnant. Surprising lack of bite is…
Sleepover (2004)
- Dir. Joe Nussbaum
Feat. Alexa Vega, Mika Boorem, Jane Lynch…
- The 'tweenie' star of SPY KIDS, Alexa Vega, ventures into more conventional mission with this slightly tweaked high–school comedy in which…
Somersault (2004)
- Dir. Cate Shortland
Feat. Abbie Cornish, Sam Worthington, Lynette Curran…
- Visually impressive though underwritten account of a fragile Australian teenager who flees her home for the wider world after being caught in bed…
Stray Dogs (Sag-haye velgard) (2004)
- Dir. Marziyeh Meshkini
Feat. Gol-Ghotai , Zahed , Agheleh Rezaie
- A wrenching, emotionally gripping tale of two children, orphaned after their parents are imprisoned, who must fend for themselves in…
Turtles Can Fly (Lakposhtha hâm parvaz mikonand) (2004)
- Dir. Bahman Ghobadi
Feat. Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif
- The first widely–released film to emerge from post–Hussein Iraq, this wrenching tale concerns a raucous gang of children who scratch out…
Veronica Mars (TV Series) (2004)
- Feat. Kristen Bell, Jason Dohring, Enrico Colantoni…
- Addictive, dark–hued mystery noir masquerading as a high school drama, centred on the socially ostracised teen daughter of a private eye whose…
Way of Life, A (2004)
- Dir. Amma Asante
Feat. Stephanie James, Brenda Blethyn
- Emotionally brutal yet skillful 'kitchen sink' drama from first–time dir. Asante, about a single teenage mum giving and taking the hard knocks…