Subgenre Sampler
Youth: 924 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Battle of Shaker Heights, The (2003)
- Dir. Efram Potelle, Kyle Rankin
Feat. Shia LaBeouf, Elden Henson, Amy Smart…
- This product of the "Project Greenlight" film–making reality–TV is a a light but engaging story of a young war–reenactment…
Best of Youth, The (La Meglio gioventù) (2003)
- Dir. Marco Tullio Giordana
- Sprawling and heady Italian saga tracks the lives of two brothers through the idealistic dreams of the 1960s and the long messy aftermath of…
Bookies (2003)
- Dir. Mark Illsley
Feat. Nick Stahl, Lukas Haas, Rachael Leigh Cook…
- Four college friends become small–time bookies, only to find their world spinning dangerously out of control when their greed attracts the…
Bright Young Things (2003)
- Dir. Stephen Fry
Feat. Emily Mortimer, Stephen Campbell Moore, Dan Aykroyd…
- Set among the aspirant youth of 1930s Britain, this fresh satirical comedy marks a promising debut for dir. Fry, even if the drama is sliced a little…
Cafe Lumiere (Kôhî jikô) (2003)
- Dir. Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Feat. Tadanobu Asano, Yo Hitoto
- Luminous tribute to Japanese dir. Yasujiro Ozu from a Taiwanese admirer, which honours Ozu's aesthetic in a minimalist study of personal…
Camp (2003)
- Dir. Todd Graff
Feat. Daniel Letterle, Joanna Chilcoat, Don Dixon
- A heart–on–its–sleeve musical set an American summer camp for 'artistic' teenagers, in which individual fears and hopes find group…
Cheetah Girls, The (2003)
- Dir. Oz Scott
Feat. Raven -Symone, Adrienne Bailon, Sabrina Bryan…
- Bubblegum pop teen chick flick following four New York teens trying to make it big in the music world who end up having to choose between fame and…
Cromartie High School (TV Series) (Sakigake!! Kuromati Kôkô) (2003)
- Dir. Hiroaki Sakurai
- The zany and hilarious episodes in the life of a teenage boy who ends up at a rough public school, peopled by an array of thugs, robots, a gorilla…