Sentences with phrase «teen romance film»
Yes, the movie looks cheesy as hell, and yes the stars are as generically attractive as the ones you'll find in any schlocky teen romance film — star Nick Robinson did first stretch his teen romance acting chops in 2017's tearjerker Everything, Everything — but it's still gives the spotlight to a gay lead in a major motion picture.
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Teen romance movies are a dime a dozen, but Love, Simon has the benefit of being a major teen romance film revolving around a gay character.
The teen romance film Clueless was released in 1995.
The two also penned other coming - of - age teen romance films like 500 Days of Summer, The Spectacular Now and Paper Towns.
Not exact matches
Shiota gets a great deal of mileage out of the extreme contrast between the film's placid surface - that of a lightweight teen romance - and it's underlying themes of sexual degradation and control.
The narrative twists and turns are mostly unremarkable teen romance stuff, but it all serves a greater purpose certainly less trod in mainstream American film, illustrating the essentially destructive nature of the closet.
Judging by the film's latest trailer, this new movie has traces of the hip wit found in Neustadter and Weber's (500) Days of Summer screenplay, with poignance and philosophy similar to that found in the pair's script for their previous teen romance tale, The Spectacular Now (which also costarred Woodley).
But while that film, a teen romance set in the early 1970s, was a rather intimate, small - scale film, Assayas has come up with something much grander with «Something In The Air» (or «Apres Mai»).
A version of this review appears in print on March 28, 1986, on Page C00022 of the National edition with the headline: FILM: «LUCAS,» TEEN - AGE ROMANCE.
Also in contention must be Fremon Craig's script, which plays to the teen audience with recognisable moments of anguish and glee (the romance subplot involving Hayden Szeto's American / Korean student feels both fresh and warmly familiar) while exploring some very adult emotions; as with the best of the genre, it is a film about teenagers but not just for teenagers.
Unless you find snakes to be frightening, this horror film has very few moments of genuine scares, while the goofy dialogue and soapy moments of teen romance catapult this into the realm of camp comedy at times.
She made a break - out performance in the film adaptation of Nicolas Spark's romance novel «The Notebook» and stole the show from Lindsay Lohan in the teen angst comedy «Mean Girls.»
The antsy teen sits alongside several Bible Study peers — including high - schoolers Cameron (Chloë Grace Moretz) and Coley (Quinn Shephard), whose budding, secret romance the film keeps flashing back to — as a pastor bellows about the evils lurking within all children their age.
Ronan is good at pluck and resolve, and the film creates a suitably horrifying future — but making Armageddon the backdrop for a teen romance is awfully jarring and not terribly satisfying.
The film's nominal story involves a terminally ill mother, a corpse found floating in the ocean, and a tentative teen romance; as usual, though, Kawase is mostly interested in having these characters speak her ideas aloud, handing them endless turgid dialogue about nature, death, and the link between the two.
The second is impossible to miss — a nuclear bomb detonation in near - future London — and while the film delivers a dystopian teen romance in the center of its aftermath, an unnerving atmosphere and surprising brutality actually creates tangible jeopardy and tension throughout.
The third act moves us away from the love story, into bigger issues of manipulation and trust, but this 90 - minute film doesn't have the patience or the experience to tackle anything beyond a fleeting teen romance.
With Steve Kloves (Wonder Boys, The Fabulous Baker Boys) returning as the screenwriter after skipping the last film, the more serious tone is interspersed with the lighter moments of teen romance, though these soap opera antics may seem tedious to those who don't care much about the dalliances of the Hogwarts students, particularly in how much screen time is given to it in place of the larger storyline that could have used a greater sense of build up.
It's a film of gloom, fear and dread — and we're not just talking about the teen romance.
But language barriers were also part of the films themselves: In John Cameron Mitchell's punk sci - fi teen romance How to Talk to Girls at Parties, Elle Fanning plays an alien (like, a literal extraterrestrial) named Zan who becomes fascinated by a human boy (Alex Sharp) and his favorite mode of communication, punk music.
After a decent first half, the rest of the film reaches for emotional weight with an initially sweet but pretty featureless teen romance.
A film so definitive in the teen - flick canon that it's even inspired a recent feature - length documentary («Beyond Clueless»), this whip - smart, high - school - set adaptation of Jane Austen's «Emma» remains the gold standard for snarky teen romance.
«My Sucky Teen Romance» is a family - friendly film with so much heart you won't want to drive a stake through it.
The film is immensely important for representation as well and it's even more important that it's a gay teen romance that's handled with the utmost care.
MPI Media Group's My Sucky Teen Romance, the breakthrough feature film from writer - director Emily Hagins (head here for a more in - depth...
I find a pair of biopics (the film flavor of the year, it seemed), a thriller, a sports movie, two epics out of myth, a teen sex comedy, a political drama, and a duo of romances, but they all go beyond such misleading genre labels and find lives of their own.