Subgenre Sampler
Youth: 912 Films to Buy & Rent
What's Eating Gilbert Grape? (1993)
- Dir. Lasse Hallstrom
Feat. Johnny Depp, Juliette Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio…
- An off–beat delight that's quirky take on tin–pot America is never at the expense of its truthfulness or poignancy.
The ballad of the…
When a Stranger Calls Back (1993)
- Dir. Fred Walton
Feat. Carol Kane, Charles Durning, Jill Schoelen
- Sequel to the 1979 classic WHEN A STRANGER CALLS, with the same director and much of the same cast.
Babysitter Julia is looking after two kids…
Class Act (1992)
- Dir. Randall Miller
Feat. Meshach Taylor, Rick Ducommun
- Funky feature with HOUSE PARTY rap act Kid 'n' Play as a straight–A student and street–wise homeboy who have their identities switched at…
Crush (1992)
- Dir. Alison Maclean
Feat. Marcia Gay Harden
- A downbeat analysis of female personal politics, with Marcia Gay Harden, an American vixen in Rotorua who neglects her dear friend recently paralysed…
Doppelganger (1992)
- Dir. Avi Nesher
Feat. Drew Barrymore
- Drew Barrymore plays an innocent who moves in with a budding horror scriptwriter – ultimately providing him with plenty of source material.…
Encino Man (California Man) (1992)
- Dir. Les Mayfield
Feat. Sean Astin, Brendan Fraser, Pauly Shore
- Debut vehicle for MTV guru Shore about a youthful cave–man who becomes an unlikely fraternity hero when he is awakened in contemporary L.A.
Guncrazy (1992)
- Dir. Tamra Davis
Feat. Drew Barrymore, James LeGros, Billy Drago…
- Drew Barrymore and James LeGros are tearaway teens who find solace in each other, but together sink further into the mire of trouble. Maturely…
Long Day Closes, The (1992)
- Dir. Terence Davies
Feat. Marjorie Yates, Leigh McCormack, Anthony Watson
- The director follows up DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES with a more optimistic but just as dream–like portrait of working–class life in '50s…
Midnight Clear, A (1992)
- Dir. Keith Gordon
Feat. Peter Berg, Kevin Dillon, Arye Gross…
- A provocative, suspenseful anti–war parable about a fresh–faced American platoon assigned to an abandoned chateau near the German border…
Mima (1992)
- Dir. Philomene Esposito
Feat. Nino Manfredi, Margarita Lozano, Virginie Ledoyen
- The first–time director captures the nuance and feeling of her own experience as a young girl who witnesses the mysterious disappearance of her…