Subgenre Sampler
Youth: 912 Films to Buy & Rent
Outside Providence (1998)
- Dir. Michael Corrente
Feat. Alec Baldwin
- The Farrelly Brothers venture towards the deeper end of comedy with a, by turns, idiosyncratic and witless farce about a 70s era teen–stoner…
Party Monster - The Shockumentary (1998)
- Dir. Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
- Compulsively sordid true story of one Michael Alig, whose success as a New York night club impresario devolved into drug abuse and the brutal murder…
Phantoms (1998)
- Dir. Joe Chappelle
Feat. Joanna Going, Rose McGowan, Ben Affleck…
- Dropping in on a remote town with no apparent inhabitants, babe sisters Joanna Going and Rose McGowan find themselves on the sinister skids.
Ben…
Pleasantville (1998)
- Dir. Gary Ross
Feat. Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, William H. Macy…
- A pair of nineties teenagers are beamed into a starched black and white 50s TV show, where their modern 'freedoms' gradually liberate/corrupt the…
Rushmore (1998)
- Dir. Wes Anderson
Feat. Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Olivia Williams
- Bamboozling minds everywhere is this oblique comedy from Wes Anderson (BOTTLE ROCKET), re–envisioning that Hollywood mainstay, Highschool USA,…
She's All That (1998)
- Dir. Robert Iscove
Feat. Freddie Prinze Jnr., Anna Paquin
- Charisma of rising star Freddie Prinze Jnr. (a less affected Keanu Reeves) relieves some of the predictability of this high–school variation of…
Slums of Beverly Hills (1998)
- Dir. Tamara Jenkins
Feat. Marisa Tomei, Alan Arkin
- A New York teen comes of age while being dragged around various LA hovels by her poor–schmuck father (Alan Arkin) and her two irritating…
Stella Does Tricks (1998)
- Dir. Coky Giedroyc
Feat. Kelly MacDonald
- Worldly teenage prostitute Stella escapes the paternal clutches of her pimp to reclaim herself and find companionship in a sympathetic young junkie.…
Urban Legend (1998)
- Dir. Jamie Blanks
Feat. Alicia Witt, Danielle Harris
- A serial killer is offing students in the manner of various urban legends (grisly rumours that become so commonly known they're accepted as fact).…
Whatever (1998)
- Dir. Susan Skoog
Feat. Lisa Weil
- Beset by apathy, uncertainty and her indulgent best friend, a teenage girl falls victim to her own adolescence while trying to complete her final…