Funny Ha Ha (2003), When I Grow Up (1951), The Secret Garden (1949), David and Lisa (1962), The School of Rock (2003), Diner (1982), 22 Jump Street (2014), Pieces of April (2003) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Maturing movies.
Storyline: Wannabe-adventurer Zoe freaks out when she falls pregnant to her long-term boyfriend Tim. As Tim embraces the prospect of fatherhood, Zoe attempts to rush through her dreams.
Plot Keywords: girlfriend, boyfriend, parent, friend, amusing, charming, confident ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After their annual free concert at Chicago's Dearborn Settlement, Benny Goodman and his band are packing up to move on to their next engagement at a military camp, when a kid, Tony Birch, steals Goodman's clarinet. Goodman and Popsie pursue him to a tenement flat where he has led them to hear his brother, Johnny Birch, play the trombone. Goodman offers him a job, over Popsie's protest, with the band. Aboard the train, Johnny accidentally enters the compartment of the band's singer, Pat Sterling, and gets his face slapped. At the military camp, which turns out to be a boy's military academy (which accounts for juvenile players such as Dickie Moore and Harry McKin running around with such titles as General and Major), Goodman finds a real audience in the jive-mad, jitterbug kids. Masquerading as a sweet, 16-year-old girl friend of one of the cadets who is, in reality, her nephew, Trudy Wilson meets her old friend Goodman who introduces her to Johnny, whose music she admired. However, Johnny brushes her off, thinking she is just a kid. Months later, while practicing for their opening at the exclusive Leopard Room in NYC, Johnny runs into Trudy, and is furious that she has followed him to New York. Pat tells Johnny that Trudy is the débutante daughter of Norman Wilson, who runs the symphony association. Johnny decides she is out of his league but they fall for each other when he invites her to a jam session. At a swank party at Trudy's house, where Goodman plays the Mozart Quintet, one of the snobbish guests makes a remark when Johnny's brother Tony, sister Helen and his mother suddenly appear. A brawl ensues and Johnny, feeling he has disgraced himself in front of Trudy, flings his resignation at Goodman and stalks out. Pat's manager gets her to break with Goodman, sets up Johnny as a name band, and hires the Goodman band to join.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: bandleader, musician, brother, manager, singer, beautiful girl, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When the oldest daughter decides to stay in South America while on a school tour, her father decides to take the rest of the family there for vacation to find out why.
Plot Keywords: father, daughter, architect, sister, son, pilot, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A group of Midwestern pals -- Owen (Jim Gaffigan), Tommy (Michael Gilio), Dave (Ian Brennan), Greg (T.J. Jagodowski) and Vern (Jed Resnik) -- typically make an annual pilgrimage to a big amateur hockey tournament in Madison, Wis. But this year their plans may be changing. With the men coming up on middle age, they're torn between their desire to repeat their once-a-year outing and the responsibilities that come with adulthood, careers and marriage.
Plot Keywords: fan, young man, girlfriend, hockey player, friend, traveler, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Tom Harrigan raises orphaned Benny McNeil to be a first-rate jockey, but fails to bridle the lad's healthy ego. When Benny receives too many rebukes for unsportsman-like conduct from the racing commission, Tom decides to sell his contract to Garnet before he, too, is censured. Tom also reasons that, by having Benny with a top outfit, he can manipulate his races and make a fortune on the betting. But Benny, thanks to the humanizing influence of Mr. Garnet, has a different idea....—Chris Stone <jstone@bellatlantic.net>
Plot Keywords: jockey, trainer, bookie, rival, horse breeder, retiree, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: College students Andy Shaeffer and Susan Daniels are pinned. While Susan works hard to put herself through college, Andy sponges off his parents, his mother, Madeline Shaeffer, who in particular will give him whatever he wants. In other words, Andy is a mama's boy, which he doesn't really realize. Andy and Susan have used the word love to describe their relationship, but Susan isn't sure if that's what they are really feeling for each other or if it is solely a loveless passion. And if it is love, she isn't sure their relationship can survive without Andy taking some ownership of his life. The near end of their relationship, initiated by Susan, leads to Andy starting to flunk out of college, which in turn makes Andy a prime candidate to be drafted. During basic training at Camp Ord, California, Andy makes it clear to his superiors and his fellow privates that he doesn't want to be there and will do only what is requested of him without any extra effort. His superiors and fellow privates in turn see that Andy's privileged life has not done him any favors, especially after Mrs. Shaeffer makes a visit to the camp. But after it looks like Andy may be a lost cause, his superiors make a bold move to try and turn him into a man.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: student, army recruit, society matron, girlfriend, army officer, sergeant, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: For the first time in movie history, audiences will truly see and feel what it was like when dinosaurs ruled the Earth. "Walking with Dinosaurs" is the ultimate immersive experience, utilizing state of the art 3D to put audiences in the middle of a thrilling and epic prehistoric world, where an underdog dino triumphs to become a hero for the ages.
Plot Keywords: dinosaur, pterodactyl, charming, cheeky, heartwarming, jungle, woods ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Jolly Boys, a group of London booze hounds, are stunned to learn that charter member "Spider" Dale (Andy Serkis) is marrying his girlfriend, Annie (Rebecca Craig). Hoping to scuttle the engagement by capturing footage of his friend's epic partying, "Des" Dixon (Milo Twomey) films Spider's last months of freedom. Taking the form of an amateur video, this comedy follows the Jolly Boys, who soon realize that yet another member (Sacha Baron Cohen) is set to be married.
Plot Keywords: young man, fiancée, best man, groom, friend, bachelor, hilarious ...
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