Subgenre Sampler
Youth: 920 Films to Buy & Rent
Going to School with Dad on My Back (Bei qi baba shangxue) (1997)
- Dir. Youchou Zhou
- Straightforwardly touching tale of a young boy, who with the help of his selfless family, graduates from his impoverished Malian River village to the…
Hurricane Streets (1997)
- Dir. Morgan J. Freeman
Feat. Brendon Sexton III, Antoine McLean
- The excellent Brendan Sexton III (WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE) does a sympathetic about–turn for this unflashy take on teenage delinquency.
It…
La Vie de Jesus (Life of Jesus) (1997)
- Dir. Bruno Dumont
- Virtuoso bleakness from the dir. of TWENTYNINE PALMS, in his debut study of alienated existence for a group of unruly skinheads in rural Flanders who…
Last of the High Kings (1997)
- Dir. David Keating
Feat. Jared Leto, Christina Ricci, Gabriel Byrne…
- An irreverent flashback to late 70s Dublin, where Jared Leto ducks the familiar teenage troubles: girls, school and eccentric relations. Strong cast,…
Nowhere (1997)
- Dir. Gregg Araki
Feat. James Duval, Rachel True, Nathan Bexton…
- Final installment of Gregg Araki's teen apocalypse' trilogy, trawling the teenage shallowlands of L.A. in a kind of R–rated flip to Beverly…
Slab Boys, The (1997)
- Dir. John Byrne
Feat. Russell Barr, Bill Gardiner, Robin Laing…
- A quiff–headed rites–of–passage in dead–end 1950s Scotland, follows three apprentice dripheads at a carpet factory and their…
Suburbia (1997)
- Dir. Richard Linklater
Feat. Giovanni Ribisi, Parker Posey, Steve Zahn…
- Dir. Linklater returns to his favourite milieu – the teen angst movie – only this time working from someone else's material, a play by…
Sugar Factory, The (1997)
- Dir. Robert Carter
Feat. Matt Day
- The director adapts his novel about a disturbed Aussie teenager (Matt Day) searching for love and meaning in his life after a string of traumatic…
Trojan War (1997)
- Dir. George Huang
Feat. Will Friedle, Jennifer Love Hewitt
- Comic misadventures beset a young turk who scours the town in search of a condom in order to consummate with the ready–and–willing girl…
True Love and Chaos (1997)
- Dir. Stavros Andonis Efthymiou
Feat. Ben Mendelsohn, Noah Taylor, Miranda Otto
- A half–baked script straight out of the same Melbourne film school that produced LOVE & OTHER CATASTROPHES leaves an Aussie brat–pack…