Spetters (1980), Home Before Dark (1997), Scudda-Hoo! Scudda-Hay! (1948), Some Girls (1988), Tod@s Caen (2019), Big Bully (1996), Just Looking (1999), Back in the Day (2016) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Growing Up Story movies.
Storyline: Three young Dutch amateur dirt bike motorcycle racers each fall in love with a young woman who, with her brother, works at a concession stand at the races. Everyone is looking for a better life. The young woman wants out of the business and away from her brother. The motocross racers want to make their marks as professional racers, like their hero, Gerrit Witkamp (Rutger Hauer).—Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com>
Plot Keywords: coming of age, sexual awakening, working class, small town life, controversial film, male friendship, social outcasts ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It's 1963 in rural Massachusetts, and Nora James has the usual worries of an eleven year-old girl:lipstick, first crushes, staying out of trouble at school...not easy when your teacher is the elderly Sister Concilia. And even harder when your parents are struggling to heal from an almost unbearable loss. Then tragedy strikes another Massachusetts family, the Kennedys, and shatters the fragile bonds holding the James family together, Nora, sent to live with her brittle Aunt Rose, soon learns who she is, what she wants, and what she must do to achieve it. She makes a decision that is both cruel and courageous. Nora's choice unlocks the way to what amounts to the rescue of her family.—Maureen Foley, writer/director of the film
Plot Keywords: family, drama, children, coming of age, adventure, friendship, rural ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Light-hearted, old-style romance about a farm-hand who arranges to buy a pair of mules from his employer. No one is able to handle the mules and he must train them. Adding to his dilemma, he pursues his boss's daughter who gets her kicks out of keeping him guessing about her true feelings. Of course, at the end he tames both the mules and the girl.—Kieran Lee <kjl@kjl.st-andrews.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, rural life, 1940s, light comedy, family entertainment, inspirational ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Michael, a college student, visits his girlfriend Gabriella and her family for Christmas in Canada. When he gets there, she tells him that she doesn't love him any more. Michael attempts to see what is happening. Meanwhile, her family is exceedingly strange: her father is an atheist writer who spends most of his time wandering the house nude. Her mother is a devout Catholic who bears eccentricities of her own. The sisters along with Michael visit their grandmother at a mental institution, where she mistakes Michael for her dead husband. Meanwhile Gabriella's sisters express interest in him. Granny escapes the hospital and heads back to her home in the woods, and the family chases after her, and Michael is kept reeling.—Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>
Plot Keywords: youth, coming of age, romance, comedy, drama, 1980s, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Adán (Omar Chaparro) is a charming seducer who believes he knows how to make any woman swoon. He prepares to teach his friends the art of conquering women, using his array of bullet-proof rules of seduction. Mia (Martha Higareda) is an ambitious producer that dreams of having her own TV show on women empowerment called "Todos Caen," a strategic guide to dating that teaches you just how to hook a man- and have him eating from the palm of your hand in no time. Mia and Adán cross paths at a bar one fateful night, and from there the game is on in an all-out battle of the sexes. But as they test their finely honed seduction strategies on one another, both find that sometimes the more you play hard to get, the harder you may end up falling.—Pantelion Films
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, youth, school, coming of age, humor, contemporary ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: David Leary was bullied by Rosco when he was in elementary school. But he got even on the day his parents moved out of town. Now twenty years later, David, who is a successful writer, is invited back to his home town to teach. Everything is great until Rosco, who is still in town, recognizes him. Now suddenly someone is playing mean practical jokes on him. Isn't David a little too old to be running to the Principal saying "Rosco's picking on me." ?—Brian W Martz <B.Martz@Genie.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, school, bullying, revenge, coming of age, humor, 1990s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It's 1955. Lenny is a 14-year old boy who is totally fascinated by sex. He is too scared to "do it," so he dedicates his summer to seeing two other people do it. Easier said than done. Caught in the act of spying, his mother and stepfather ship him off to spend the summer with his aunt and uncle in "the country" -- Queens. His plan looks like a bust and his summer seems destined for boredom, until he meets a whole new group of friends -- young teens who have a "sex club."
Plot Keywords: coming of age, comedy, romance, sexual awakening, teen protagonist, new york, 1950s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two gangsters (Michael Madsen, Alec Baldwin) and a trainer (Danny Glover) help a young man (William DeMeo) realize his dream of becoming a professional boxer.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, youth, coming of age, school, friendship, nostalgia ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When Janet Beindorf (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her husband, Ned (Kevin Pollak), announce their separation, their two kids decide to lock them in the basement of their home until they sort things out. Soon other parents are getting the same treatment from their children, including the divorce-happy Vic Finley (Wallace Shawn), with all the adults confined to the Beindorfs' basement along with Janet and Ned. Unable to escape their prison, will the parents finally make some changes in their lives?
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, american movie, 1990s, children, teen, coming of age ...
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