Whenever I see these types of
coming of age movies about young boys, they always bring me back to Stand By Me, which is my all - time favorite movie.
A solid coming
of age movie with a good soundtrack good performances and an interesting take.
Yeah it looks like some decent writing... but it is just another coming
of age movie about an awkward white boy... and a summer job with cool adults that get him... and a single parent that's tuned out..
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Amusingly superb Movie with a few of the greats, it would be a great coming
of Age movie if they weren't already in there 60's!
Of course, it had some faults like all coming
of age movies do (cough cough nobody in the movie is a teen cough cough) but I really don't fault it for that..
Thanks to our pal iggy for tipping us to Spain's official Oscar submission, Pa Negre (Black Bread) which he summarizes thusly: a terrific (but not your typical) coming
of age movie during Spanish Civil Post-War with an amazing female...
The weightlifters encourage the siblings to participate in the
heist of an aging movie star, Maciste (Rutger Hauer).
He brings these exacting qualities to his directorial debut Wildlife, a quietly devastating coming
of age movie dipped in poison.»
This coming
of age movie provides a comedic, yet brutally honest look at what it's like to be different and face the daily struggle of growing up.
He received an Oscar nomination for Best Live Action Short in 2005, his coming
of age movie Boy (2010) was one of the best of its type I'd seen in some time, his vampire comedy What We Do in the Shadows (2014) was delightfully screwy, and now Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) is lovely, funny, and fresh.
Breaking Away manages to be a coming
of age movie with a central sports movie theme and a romantic comedy B - plot, and it does them all well.
Her performance as Lady Bird in Greta Gerwig's loosely biographical (she denies it, but...) coming
of age movie about a teen growing up in Sacramento in a middle class family who yearns for something more than the humdrum life in the suburbs.
There are more
coming of age movies than anyone would probably want to count, but the journey from youth to (at least a little) maturity isn't always all that interesting.
Coming
of age movies and books dealing with this transition are remarkably constant and popular.
I don't believe a coming
of age movie has ever been presented quite like this.
It's a silly Gen X romantic comedy / coming
of age movie, albeit one with a great cast.
On the surface, Youth in Revolt seems to be the perfect hipster coming
of age movie; with it's obscure pop songs, absurdist fantasy sequences, and Michael Cera.
There has been so many coming
of age movies that the gears have become familiar.
In a sea of coming
of age movies, Lady Bird stands out as a truly fantastic film.
While the film begins in a rather derivative fashion, making it seem as if we're in for an hour and a half of the same coming
of age movie we've seen time and time again, Berman and Pulcini are able to morph the film into an ensemble once Jude gets to the city, and the movie is all the better for it.
1:00 am (19th)-- TCM — Almost Famous Cameron Crowe turns his semi-autobiographical lens on rock stars, groupies, and rock journalists in one of the greatest combinations of road movie, coming
of age movie, and music film ever made.
PS On the subject of movie anniversaries, one of my other favourite coming
of age movies, Reality Bites, turned 20.