Subgenre Sampler
Youth: 919 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! (2004)
- Dir. Robert Luketic
Feat. Kate Bosworth, Josh Duhamel, Topher Grace…
- Quality fluff, with Bosworth playing a smalltown girl who wins the titular date, expecting a one–off evening, but gaining an ardent…
You Got Served (2004)
- Dir. Christopher B. Stokes
Feat. Marques Houston, Omari Granberry
- Hiphop melodrama in which rival 'crews' battle it out for supremacy in the arena of break–dancing.
Renowned for the exceptional dance…
Youth, The (Yuva) (2004)
- Dir. Mani Ratnam
Feat. Abhishek Bachchan, Kareena Kapoor, Ajay Devgan
- A Bollywood epic with debts to the likes of PULP FICTION and AMORES PERROS, structuring the storylines of three contrasting young men around a…
15 (2003)
- Dir. Royston Tan
Feat. Melvin Chen, Erick Chun
- Doing for the tiny island nation of Singapore what LA HAINE did for France, this box–office hit follows the misfiring antics of three teenagers…
American Pie 3 (American Wedding) (2003)
- Dir. Jesse Dylan
Feat. Jason Biggs, Eugene Levy, Seann William Scott
- Third in the series of raunchy–on–top comedies, this offers little that's new, but does manage to be better than expected.
With two of…