coming of age
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Peyote
Pablo is a wide-eyed innocent young teenager, who left alone to his own devices in his rather luxurious home when his parents take off the beach, films the toys he smashes up as part of some childish scenarios. When he’s not doing that he shoots half naked pictures of himself for girls on the Internet that…
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Salvation Army aka L’Armee Du Salut
Abdellah is a young teenager who lives with his poor large family in an overcrowded small house in Casablanca. He spends his days helping his sisters doing household chores at the behest of his mother who seems perpetually angry with him. Her bad-tempered-ness could be because as he is male she associates him closely with…
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Queerguru reviews Quentin Lee’s WHITE FROG
Chaz Young is the eldest son in a wealthy Chinese/American family living in a rather palatial house in Los Angeles. He’s a handsome and popular athletic high school student and is considered quite perfect by more than a few people, especially his younger brother Nick who idolizes him. When Chaz is killed by a drunk…
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THE WAY WAY BACK
The title of this charming coming-of-age bittersweet comedy refers to the rear facing third seat in a massive old station where put-upon young Duncan is sat for the journey to the beach house for the summer vacations. The other passengers …. his mother, and a teenage girl are asleep, so Trent his mother’s new boyfriend…
