Subgenre Sampler
Youth: 924 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
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…