Subgenre Sampler
Youth: 924 Films to Buy & Rent
Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994)
- Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, Miko Hughes
- Ingenious post–script to the tired NIGHTMARE ON ELM ST. franchise in which castmembers of the previous films (playing themselves), too, become…
Alex (1993)
- Dir. Megan Simpson
Feat. Lauren Jackson, Chris Haywood, Josh Picker
- Fact–based story about teenager Alex Archer, who overcame rivalry and tragedy to win selection for the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome. Evocative of…
Amy Fisher Story, The (1993)
- Dir. Andy Tennant
Feat. Drew Barrymore
- Telemovie depiction of the notorious Long Island high–school student whose activities as a violent criminal and teenage prostitute climaxed…
Beavis and Butthead (TV Series) (1993-1997)
- Dir. Mike Judge
- Once rejected by our television networks on moral grounds, this might've been your only chance to catch America's favourite miscreants in animated…
Clerks (1993)
- Dir. Kevin Smith
Feat. Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Jason Mewes…
- Made for $27,000 in the convenience store where the director (then) worked, this follows a rude and bizarre day in the lives of two lowly grocery…
Dazed and Confused (1993)
- Dir. Richard Linklater
Feat. Jason London, Rory Cochrane, Matthew McConaughey…
- Set on campus in 1976, this is a marvellous youth–movie/nostalgia–trip which treats the hopelessly insignificant as a source of constant…
Far Off Place, A (1993)
- Dir. Mikael Soloman
Feat. Reese Witherspoon, Ethan Randall, Jack Thompson…
- Quality drama follows two teenagers across the African desert after they witness a poacher's deadly assault. Superb location photography, but maybe…
Heartbreak Kid, The (1993)
- Dir. Michael Jenkins
Feat. Alex Dimitriades
- Alex Dimitriades plays a hunky college student who becomes romantically entangled with his 22–year–old teacher. Sensitively drawn…
King of the Hill (1993)
- Dir. Steven Soderbergh
Feat. Jesse Bradford, Jeroen Krabbe, Lisa Eichhorn…
- A bleak yet exquisitely crafted tale of a Jewish boy living in depression–era St. Louis, left to fend for himself in a run–down hotel. It…
My Father, the Hero (1993)
- Dir. Steve Miner
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Katherine Heigl, Lauren Hutton
- Innocuous English language retread of MON PERE CE HEROS, with Gerard Depardieu in the title role he played in the original.