Your favorite coming of age movies

Riddle101

I appreciate a good coming of age movie. John Hughes was famous for making coming of age movies in the 80's, Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Ferris Buller's Day Off, If you haven't seen them you've missed out. Saying that I thought it would be nice to make a thread on this particular subject. So what are your favorite coming of age movies?

My favorite movies are Breakfast Club, Stand By Me, and The Sandlot.

Breakfast Club - This movie in all time classic. Five teenagers from different backgrounds(The Rebel, The Jock, The Popular Girl, The Nerd, and The Outsider) comes together during one particular detention, over seen by Assistant Principal Richard "Dick" Vernon, and throughout the film they learn about themselves and each other. It's a bit more than that but it's a good flick. Probably my favorite John Hughes movie.

Stand By Me - As with many Stephen King books, Stand By My was another book that became a good coming of age movie. In this movies four kids(Will Wheaton, Corey Feldman, River Pheonix, and Jerry O'Connell) embark on an adventure to find a dead body of a missing boy, and are tormented by the bully John "Ace" Merrill. Anyway it's a great film that manages to balance comedy with drama very nicely.

The Sandlot Kids - I'm not really sure how popular this movie is, I think it might be overlooked but I remember watching it a lot throughout my childhood. The movie is a coming of age baseball film set in 1962. A kid named Scott Small moves into a new town and joins this group of kids who play baseball a lot. It's really good and has some really funny moments.

Brindor

Surf's Up to be quite honest with you.
That movie is comfy as hell, I could rewatch that again and again.

The Backwards Man

The Goonies

Never see it on telly any more.

drunkmonkey

The blue lagoon, probably illegal these days.

Parachutes

I think The Inbetweeners is fairly representative.

maudgonner

Elf.

He may be played by a middle-aged man, but it's still a coming of age movie! Big would probably also qualify by the same reasoning.

Dirty Dingus McGee

Cinema Paradiso.

It's an incredibly beautiful film.

Kevin and Perry go Large.

sinnerboy0

Dazed and Confused...

Amarcord

Boyz n the Hood.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off. I think Ferris was the teenager all us boys wanted to be in the 80s.

lawlolawl

Parachutes wrote: »

I think The Inbetweeners is fairly representative.

Of what?

All i saw it representing was how to make an awful, unfunny movie/tv show.

Butterface

Ghost World

Arsemageddon

Stand By Me.

Not only is a great film, it also gave me a lifelong hatred of leeches. Whenever I see those evil little barsterds I recoil in absolute terror.

smash

Barely 18 xxx

enzo roco

smash wrote: »

Barely 18 xxx

Ooooooo and also, Back door sluts 9.


Lets just say it moved me.... to a bigger house!!!!

pheasant tail

Boyhood and the perks of being a wallflower are 2 more recent ones that spring to mind

Titzon Toast

American Graffiti.

Buona Fortuna

Porkys

Prankster:
"I've an important message for Michael Hunt"

Waitress over the tannoy:
"Has anybody seen Mike Hunt. Mike Hunt ...."


The old ones are the best.

Cienciano

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Superbad had some funny moments.

Not nearly enough to bracket it with the classics, but one of the better comedies in recent years.

The outsiders.
The catholic boys.

buried

Juice (1992) Started me turntable obsession so it did

Torricelli

Trainspotting.

BrianD3

A few that I found memorable

Y Tu Mama Tambien (2002)

Summer of 42 (1971)

Last Summer (1969)

I find a good coming of age movie to be hard hitting and somewhat depressing. E.g. in Stand By Me at the end where it is revealed that River Phoenix's character was killed after intervening in a fight and the line about how you never have friends as good as those you had when you were 12. And on top of that, knowing that River Phoenix himself died at a young age.

Also - American Graffiti - at the end when it is revealed that one of the main characters was killed by a drunk driver and another was missing in action in Vietnam.

Toots

Porkys
Van Wilder Party Liaison
Now and Then

steddyeddy

In the name of the rose for Christian Slatter's portrayal of the monk Adso.

Aongus Von Bismarck

I've always had a soft spot for Clueless.

Drexel

Stand by me is such a great movie. It's set in different country and a much different time then when I grew up but a lot of it really hits home I think

rtron

The shaw shank redem..... Nah FCK that Batman V Superman

maudgonner

Deleted User wrote: »

Ferris Bueller's Day Off. I think Ferris was the teenager all us boys wanted to be in the 80s.

If all the boys wanted to be Ferris, then I'm going to add Dirty Dancing, 'cause all the girls wanted to be Baby.

We all wish we could have been the one to carry a watermelon. (Not a euphemism)

the evasion_kid

Dazed and confused

Catholic boys

taytobreath

'my girl' is a nice sweet movie

the evasion_kid

the evasion_kid wrote: »

Dazed and confused

Catholic boys

Had forgotten Catholic Boys, THE film for 14 year olds in the 80s.

Olishi4

The Lost Boys

Yamanoto

Not a movie, but Freaks and Geeks completely nails an awful lot of the insecurity, fun times & sheer bloody awkwardness of those early adolescent years.

PirateShampoo

Almost Famous

Brilliant film, can't fault it.

dark crystal

A recent one I loved was The Way, Way Back and on a similar theme, The Kings of Summer. I also have a real soft spot for Riding In Cars With Boys.

If it counts, I would highly recommend City of God too. Amazing movie.

Rothko

Definitely Stand By Me. One of my favourite movies ever.

mzungu

Y Tu Mama Tambien (And Your Mother Too)

Glenbhoy

Stand by me.
(Mud, recently was in a sorta similar vein, good show)

Feel obliged to mention that I never like ferris bueller. Saw it recently and reaffirmed that opinion, was watching with my nieces, it's one movie which has dated extremely badly too.

buried

Season 4 of 'The Wire'

yerwanthere123

Some great choices posted already. Another vote here for The Kings of Summer.

Chocolate fiend

Adventureland - not exactly a classic, but, a fun watch all the same.

Locker10a

Mean Girls, Probably one of the biggest movies of my generation, something of a cult when I was in my late teens.
Also enjoyed Sex Drive ( the movie that is)
Shawshank redemption, again powerful movie and one we watched in School.
Not a movie but to me the TV series Skins will always have that comming of age feel to it!
I'm sure there are more that I can't think of right now

mdwexford

Caddyshack.

the evasion_kid

The warriors

mada999

Riddle101 wrote: »

I appreciate a good coming of age movie. John Hughes was famous for making coming of age movies in the 80's, Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Ferris Buller's Day Off, If you haven't seen them you've missed out. Saying that I thought it would be nice to make a thread on this particular subject. So what are your favorite coming of age movies?

My favorite movies are Breakfast Club, Stand By Me, and The Sandlot.

Breakfast Club - This movie in all time classic. Five teenagers from different backgrounds(The Rebel, The Jock, The Popular Girl, The Nerd, and The Outsider) comes together during one particular detention, over seen by Assistant Principal Richard "Dick" Vernon, and throughout the film they learn about themselves and each other. It's a bit more than that but it's a good flick. Probably my favorite John Hughes movie.

Stand By Me - As with many Stephen King books, Stand By My was another book that became a good coming of age movie. In this movies four kids(Will Wheaton, Corey Feldman, River Pheonix, and Jerry O'Connell) embark on an adventure to find a dead body of a missing boy, and are tormented by the bully John "Ace" Merrill. Anyway it's a great film that manages to balance comedy with drama very nicely.

The Sandlot Kids - I'm not really sure how popular this movie is, I think it might be overlooked but I remember watching it a lot throughout my childhood. The movie is a coming of age baseball film set in 1962. A kid named Scott Small moves into a new town and joins this group of kids who play baseball a lot. It's really good and has some really funny moments.

do you think there are any film's nowadays apart from the American pie that have these characteristics? Does Twilight count .. grim

Chain Smoker

Kes
This is just an amazing film, Ken Loach managing to get everything right at the one time with a sufficiently distinct plot and strong enough cast to stand out from the rest of his work.

Diner

The Spectacular Now

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

The Ice Storm

The 400 Blows

The Squid and the Whale

The Spirit of the Beehive
Probably my favourite on the list here

My Summer of Love

Dazed and Confused

Adventureland

Big

Nobody Knows
I Wish
No one directs kids as good as Koreeda

Persepolis


Eh, I meant to write something underneath each one, but that's way too many

pappyodaniel

Thumbsucker is another excellent coming of age movie.

Totofan99

PirateShampoo wrote: »

Almost Famous

Brilliant film, can't fault it.

I came in here to post that. Awesome soundtrack too.

Chain Smoker

Totofan99 wrote: »

I came in here to post that. Awesome soundtrack too.

Very narrowly avoided having one of the most cringeworthy scenes in a film ever

Left one off my list there, but Freaks & Geeks, while not being a film, got some of this stuff down far far better than any film I can think of.