For Your Consideration – Coming of Age Movies*
10 Things I Hate About You; A Bronx Tale; All the Right Moves; Almost Famous; American Graffiti; American Pie; An Education; Back to the Future; Badlands; Bend It Like Beckham; Better Off Dead; Big; Boyhood; Boyz in the Hood; Breaking Away; Bully; Carrie; Chronicle; City of God; Clueless; Dazed and Confused; Dead Poets Society; Dirty Dancing; Dope; Eighth Grade; Election; Fame; Fast Times at Ridgemont High; Ferris Bueller’s Day Off; Friday Night Lights; Ghost World; Grease; Hairspray; Harold and Maude; Heathers; Hoop Dreams; Hoosiers; House Party; Juno; Lady Bird; Lord of the Flies; Love and Basketball; Mean Girls; Moonlight; Moonrise Kingdom; My Bodyguard; Napoleon Dynamite; Never Rarely Sometimes Always; October Sky; Pretty in Pink; Rebel Without A Cause; Risky Business; River's Edge; Rocket Science; Rushmore; Say Anything; Sixteen Candles; Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse; Stand By Me; Star Wars Episode IV - A New Hope; Superbad; The Breakfast Club; The Edge of Seventeen; The Graduate; The Great Debaters; The Karate Kid; The Last Picture Show; The Outsiders; The Perks of Being a Wallflower; The Spectacular Now; Varsity Blues; Vision Quest; War Games; Win Win
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* Listed in alphabetical order. I’m sure that there are more.
I don't see The Chocolate War in there.
You’re right!
As I said, I’m sure there are more coming of age films that I’d missed and that I’ll continue to miss. The Chocolate War could be added along with others like Blackboard Jungle; Coach Carter; Dangerous Minds; Freedom Writers; Goodbye, Mr. Chips; Lean on Me; Stand and Deliver; The 400 Blows; The Emperors Club; The Power of One; To Sir with Love and Up the Down Staircase.
based on the recommendation of some good friends and my deep affinity for "Jo Jo Rabbit" we just watched Taika Waititi's "Hunt for the Wilderpeople" - overall very good and quirky/unique in a mostly endearing way. Worth checking out.