coming of age
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THE SPECTACULAR NOW
Teenager Sutton Keely has an inexhaustible amount of confidence and good humor, and is the life and soul of the many parties that are the pivot of his very existence. He coasts along at school barely managing C- grades and makes his time in class bearable with sips from his hip flask that his is…
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NOT FADE AWAY
The most wonderful element of David Chase’s coming-of-age drama set in the 1960’s is the glorious music. This is the time when The Beatles started finding success and the world was also discovering the likes of The Rolling Stones. Douglas an American/Italian geeky high school kid in New Jersey gets invited by his best…
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MOSQUITA Y MARI
This a cute latino coming-of-age story. Set in L.A.’s predominately immigrant Huntington Park area it tells of two Mexican teenage girls who become neighbors. One of them Yolanda, who’s nickname is Mosquita, is a good girl who lives in a nice home with hard-working pushy parents who are proud of their daughter who gets straight…
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Born & Raised
Young Bubbs needs to up sticks and leave his small coastal town if he is ever to live his own life. He still lives with his embittered mother Mary who is obsessed with the fact that every man in her life always runs out on her and she is on Bubbs case constantly, and…
