Subgenre Sampler
Youth: 920 Films to Buy & Rent
He Got Game (1998)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Denzel Washington
- Those persistent bugbears about race and personal responsibility hold centre–court again for writer–director Spike Lee in this…
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)
- Dir. Jim Gillespie
Feat. Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Geller
- A slick teen horror outing from the writer of SCREAM gives an ironic lift to several old Urban Legends, only this time with a straight…
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)
- Dir. Danny Cannon
Feat. Jennifer Love Hewitt
- While unpredictable in its specifics, this sequel follows the same straight–faced, moderately scary path as its predecessor. Jennifer Love…
Jawbreaker (1998)
- Dir. Darren Stein
Feat. Rose McGowan
- A trio of teen–queens (incl. Rose McGowan), used to inflicting tongue–lashings on their classmates go onto the back foot when they…
Opposite of Sex, The (1998)
- Dir. Don Roos
Feat. Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan, Lisa Kudrow…
- Teenage tearaway Christina Ricci sets off a wild goose chain of frantically convoluted events when she steals her gay half–brother's boyfriend…
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,…