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The teen movie has become an American cinema staple. From the rebels and surf gods of the '50s and '60s, to the cynicism and idealism of John Hughes films, and the all-out gross-fests of the '90s and today, no matter the style, this genre has come to define what it means to be a teen growing up. High school and college are times to come-of-age, and what better way to prepare, than by consulting these movies?
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Rebel Without a Cause
Rebel Without a Cause
1955 | 111 Minutes | PG-13Directed by:Nicholas Ray
Starring:James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus, and Ann Doran
Genre: Drama
This landmark juvenile-delinquent drama scrupulously follows the classic theatrical disciplines, ...
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The Wild One
The Wild One
1954 | 79 Minutes | NRDirected by:Laslo Benedek
Starring:Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy, Lee Marvin, Robert Keith, and Jay C. Flippen
Genre: Drama
"What are you rebelling against?" asks someone. "What've you got?" responds surly, leather-jacket...
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High School Confidential
High School Confidential
1958 | 85 Minutes | NRDirected by:Jack Arnold
Starring:Russ Tamblyn, Jan Sterling, John Drew Barrymore, Jackie Coogan, and Mamie Van Doren
Genre: Drama
Producer Albert Zugsmith serves up another all-star exposé with High School Confidential. Deliver...
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A Summer Place
A Summer Place
1959 | 130 Minutes | NRDirected by:Delmer Daves
Starring:Dorothy McGuire, Richard Egan, Arthur Kennedy, Troy Donahue, and Sandra Dee
Genre: Drama
The Jorgensons are a wealthy family spending the summer on a resort island. Ken (Richard Egan), H...
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Jailhouse Rock
Jailhouse Rock
1957 | 96 Minutes | NRDirected by:Richard Thorpe
Starring:Elvis Presley, Judy Tyler, Mickey Shaughnessy, Jennifer Holden, and Dean Jones
Genre: Musical
One of the best of Elvis Presley's pre-Army films, Jailhouse Rock offers us the sensual, "dangero...
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Rock, Rock, Rock!
Rock Rock Rock!
1956 | 85 Minutes | NRDirected by:Will Price
Starring:Tuesday Weld, Chuck Berry, The Moonglows, Alan Freed, and Jacqueline Kerr
Genre: Musical
Rock, Rock, Rock stars 13-year-old Tuesday Weld, who looks 11 if she's a day. Even so, Weld's Dor...
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Rock Around the Clock
Rock Around the Clock
1956 | 77 Minutes | NRDirected by:Fred F. Sears
Starring:Johnny Johnston, Bill Haley and the Comets, Lisa Gaye, Alix Talton, and Alan Freed
Genre: Musical
Two musicians whose dance band is going nowhere happen across a roadhouse in the sticks, where a ...
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Gidget
Gidget
1959 | 95 Minutes | NRDirected by:Paul Wendkos
Starring:Sandra Dee, Cliff Robertson, James Darren, Arthur O'Connell, and Mary LaRoche
Genre: Comedy
Teenager Francie Lawrence (Sandra Dee) is known to her surfing friends as "Gidget" or a "girl mid...
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King Creole
King Creole
1958 | 120 Minutes | PGDirected by:Michael Curtiz
Starring:Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, Dolores Hart, Dean Jagger, and Walter Matthau
Genre: Musical
Elvis Presley delivers one of his finest early performances in King Creole. Elvis plays a teenage...
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The Blackboard Jungle
The Blackboard Jungle
1955 | 100 Minutes | NRDirected by:Richard Brooks
Starring:Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Louis Calhern, Sidney Poitier, and Margaret Hayes
Genre: Drama
In this gritty urban drama, war veteran Richard Dadier (Glenn Ford) wants to begin his career as ...
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The Graduate
The Graduate
1967 | 105 Minutes | PGDirected by:Mike Nichols
Starring:Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross, William Daniels, and Murray Hamilton
Genre: Comedy Drama
"Just one word: plastic." "Are you here for an affair?" These lines and others became cultural to...
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A Hard Day's Night
A Hard Day's Night
1964 | 85 Minutes | GDirected by:Richard Lester
Starring:Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, George Harrison, and Wilfrid Brambell
Genre: Comedy
During the first worldwide flush of Beatlemania in 1964, United Artists wanted to ship out a movi...
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Beach Blanket Bingo
Beach Blanket Bingo
1965 | 100 Minutes | NRDirected by:William Asher, Lyndall Hobbs
Starring:Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon, Linda Evans, Deborah Walley, and Harvey Lembeck
Genre: Comedy
Part of American-International's "Beach Party" series, Beach Blanket Bingo was directed by Willia...
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Bikini Beach
Bikini Beach
1964 | 100 Minutes | NRDirected by:William Asher
Starring:Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Martha Hyer, Don Rickles, and John Ashley
Genre: Musical
The Beach Party gang is back in this third episode. This time out, the gang is visited by the han...
Pajama Party
Pajama Party
1964 | 84 Minutes | NRDirected by:Don Weis
Starring:Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello, Elsa Lanchester, Harvey Lembeck, and Jesse White
Genre: Comedy
Out of the beaches and into the boudoirs go Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello and the rest of the...
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Ride the Wild Surf
Ride the Wild Surf
1964 | 101 Minutes | NRDirected by:Don Taylor
Starring:Tab Hunter, Fabian, Shelley Fabares, Barbara Eden, and Peter Brown
Genre: Drama
Fabian, Tab Hunter, and Peter Brown star as three surfers--Jody, Steamer and Chase--who make a pi...
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Village of the Giants
Village of the Giants
1965 | 81 Minutes | NRDirected by:Bert I. Gordon
Starring:Tommy Kirk, Johnny Crawford, Beau Bridges, Joy Harmon, and Ron Howard
Genre: Sci Fi
Based on the same H.G. Wells story as his later Food of the Gods, this silly but good-looking fan...
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The Young Ones
The Young Ones
1961 | 108 Minutes | NRDirected by:
Starring:Cliff Richard, Robert Morley, Carole Gray, and Richard O'Sullivan
Genre: Musical
Wonderful to Be Young! was released in Britain as The Young Ones. Given the later output of direc...
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Summer Holiday
Summer Holiday
1963 | 109 Minutes | NRDirected by:Peter Yates
Starring:Cliff Richard, Lauri Peters, Melvin Hayes, Teddy Green, and Una Stubbs
Genre: Musical
British filmmaker Peter Yates directs singer Cliff Richard in the starring role in this early 196...
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To Sir, with Love
To Sir, with Love
1967 | 100 Minutes | NRDirected by:James Clavell
Starring:Sidney Poitier, Judy Geeson, Christian Roberts, Suzy Kendall, and Faith Brook
Genre: Drama
Sidney Poitier, who in 1955 played a student in a tough inner-city high school, portrays a teache...
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American Graffiti
American Graffiti
1973 | 110 Minutes | PGDirected by:George Lucas
Starring:Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Cindy Williams, and Harrison Ford
Genre: Comedy Drama
It's the last night of summer 1962, and the teenagers of Modesto, California, want to have some f...
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Saturday Night Fever
Saturday Night Fever
1977 | 119 Minutes | PGDirected by:John Badham
Starring:John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney, Donna Pescow, Barry Miller, and Joseph Cali
Genre: Drama
John Travolta graduated from minor celebrity to superstar with Saturday Night Fever. Travolta pla...
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Grease
Grease
1978 | 110 Minutes | PGDirected by:Randal Kleiser
Starring:John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway, and Didi Conn
Genre: Musical
"Grease," said the poster and the Barry Gibb song, "is the word." Transferring its setting from C...
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Carrie
Carrie
1976 | 97 Minutes | RDirected by:Brian De Palma
Starring:Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, John Travolta, Amy Irving, and William Katt
Genre: Mystery & Suspense
This classic horror movie based on Stephen King's first novel stars Sissy Spacek as Carrie White,...
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National Lampoon's Animal House
National Lampoon's Animal House
1978 | 109 Minutes | RDirected by:John Landis
Starring:John Belushi, Tim Matheson, Tom Hulce, Peter Riegert, and Stephen Furst
Genre: Comedy
Director John Landis put himself on the map with this low-budget, fabulously successful comedy, w...
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Over the Edge
Over the Edge
1979 | 95 Minutes | PGDirected by:Jonathan Kaplan
Starring:Michael Kramer, Pamela Ludwig, Matt Dillon, Vincent Spano, and Tom Fergus
Genre: Drama
The protagonists of Over the Edge are the teen-aged offspring of the residents of a planned subur...
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Big Wednesday
Big Wednesday
1978 | 118 Minutes | PGDirected by:John Milius
Starring:Gary Busey, Jan-Michael Vincent, William Katt, Lee Purcell, and Patti D'Arbanville
Genre: Drama
Jan-Michael Vincent plays a self-destructive beach bum to whom surfing is a Zen experience. We fi...
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Rock 'n' Roll High School
Rock 'n' Roll High School
1979 | 93 Minutes | PGDirected by:Allan Arkush
Starring:P.J. Soles, Vincent Van Patten, Clint Howard, Dey Young, and Loren Lester
Genre: Comedy
Rock 'n' Roll High School is a prime example of a 1970s movie phenomenon: a cult film that was de...
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Summer of '42
Summer of '42
1971 | 102 Minutes | PGDirected by:Robert Mulligan
Starring:Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Oliver Conant, Jennifer O'Neill, and Katherine Allentuck
Genre: Comedy Drama
A surprise success in 1971 ($20 million worth of "surprise"), The Summer of '42 is a coming-of-ag...
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Love Story
Love Story
1970 | 99 Minutes | PGDirected by:Arthur Hiller
Starring:Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal, John Marley, Ray Milland, and Katharine Balfour
Genre: Drama
In director Arthur Hiller's hit tearjerker -- based on Erich Segal's novella -- Ryan O'Neal plays...
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The Breakfast Club
The Breakfast Club
1985 | 97 Minutes | RDirected by:John Hughes
Starring:Emilio Estevez, Molly Ringwald, Paul Gleason, Anthony Michael Hall, and Ally Sheedy
Genre: Comedy Drama
John Hughes wrote and directed this quintessential 1980s high school drama featuring the hottest ...
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Sixteen Candles
Sixteen Candles
1984 | 93 Minutes | PGDirected by:John Hughes
Starring:Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Michael Schoeffling, Paul Dooley, and Justin Henry
Genre: Comedy
On the eve of her sister's wedding, suburban teenager Samantha (Molly Ringwald) suffers silently ...
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
1982 | 92 Minutes | RDirected by:Amy Heckerling
Starring:Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Robert Romanus, and Brian Backer
Genre: Comedy Drama
Amy Heckerling's adaptation of Cameron Crowe's Fast Times at Ridgemont High is often considered o...
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
1986 | 103 Minutes | PG-13Directed by:John Hughes, John Hugues
Starring:Matthew Broderick, Mia Sara, Alan Ruck, Jeffrey Jones, and Jennifer Grey
Genre: Comedy
Teenaged Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) is a legend in his own time thanks to his uncanny ski...
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Pretty in Pink
Pretty in Pink
1986 | 96 Minutes | PG-13Directed by:Howie Deutch, John Hughes, Howard Deutch
Starring:Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy, Jon Cryer, James Spader, and Harry Dean Stanton
Genre: Drama
John Hughes crafts an exemplary '80s Brat Pack romance out of the standard Cinderella story in Pr...
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Say Anything...
Say Anything...
1989 | 100 Minutes | PG-13Directed by:Cameron Crowe
Starring:John Cusack, Ione Skye, John Mahoney, Lili Taylor, and Joan Cusack
Genre: Comedy Drama
Ione Skye plays Diane Court, high-school valedictorian on the verge of heading to England on a pr...
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Risky Business
Risky Business
1983 | 98 Minutes | RDirected by:Paul Brickman
Starring:Tom Cruise, Rebecca De Mornay, Joe Pantoliano, Richard Masur, and Bronson Pinchot
Genre: Comedy
Risky Business is the film in which 19-year-old Tom Cruise dances around his living room in his u...
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The Outsiders
The Outsiders
1983 | 91 Minutes | PGDirected by:Stephen H. Burum, Francis Ford Coppola
Starring:C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, and Tom Cruise
Genre: Drama
Teen rivalry in a small Southern town sets the stage for this dramatic interpretation of the nove...
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Heathers
Heathers
1989 | 102 Minutes | RDirected by:Michael Lehmann
Starring:Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty, Lisanne Falk, and Kim Walker
Genre: Comedy
A deliciously nasty black comedy, Heathers is set at a cliquish high school in Ohio. The most exc...
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Back to the Future
Back to the Future
1985 | 116 Minutes | PGDirected by:Robert Zemeckis
Starring:Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Crispin Glover, Lea Thompson, and Thomas F. Wilson
Genre: Comedy
Contemporary high schooler Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) doesn't have the most pleasant of lives. ...
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American Pie
American Pie
1999 | 95 Minutes | RDirected by:Paul Weitz
Starring:Jason Biggs, Mena Suvari, Alyson Hannigan, Shannon Elizabeth, and Chris Klein
Genre: Comedy
It's said that most American men think about sex once every two or three minutes, but this statis...
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Clueless
Clueless
1995 | 110 Minutes | PG-13Directed by:Amy Heckerling
Starring:Alicia Silverstone, Stacey Dash, Brittany Murphy, Paul Rudd, and Dan Hedaya
Genre: Comedy
Jane Austen might never have imagined that her 1816 novel Emma could be turned into a fresh and s...
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Romeo + Juliet
Romeo + Juliet
1996 | 120 Minutes | PG-13Directed by:Baz Luhrmann
Starring:Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, Brian Dennehy, John Leguizamo, and Pete Postlethwaite
Genre: Drama
The classic Shakespearean romantic tragedy is updated by director Baz Luhrmann to a post-modern V...
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Scream
Scream
1996 | 111 Minutes | RDirected by:Wes Craven
Starring:Drew Barrymore, Neve Campbell, Skeet Ulrich, David Arquette, and Courteney Cox
Genre: Horror
Scream is at once a slasher film and a tongue-in-cheek position paper on the "dead teenagers" mov...
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She's All That
She's All That
1999 | 96 Minutes | PG-13Directed by:Robert Iscove
Starring:Freddie Prinze Jr., Rachael Leigh Cook, Matthew Lillard, Paul Walker, and Jodi Lyn O'Keefe
Genre: Comedy
If Hollywood can shoehorn William Shakespeare into the teen-movie treatment with Romeo and Juliet...
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Can't Hardly Wait
Can't Hardly Wait
1998 | 101 Minutes | PG-13Directed by:Harry Elfont, Deborah Kaplan
Starring:Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ethan Embry, Seth Green, Lauren Ambrose, and Charlie Korsmo
Genre: Comedy
After the Huntington Hills High graduation ceremony, the fun gets underway at the graduation part...
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10 Things I Hate About You
10 Things I Hate About You
1999 | 98 Minutes | PG-13Directed by:Gil Junger
Starring:Larisa Oleynik, Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Andrew Keegan, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Genre: Comedy
As Shakespearean adaptations go, it's not quite as odd as moving +The Tempest to another planet (...
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Wayne's World
Wayne's World
1992 | 95 Minutes | PG-13Directed by:Penelope Spheeris
Starring:Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Rob Lowe, Tia Carrere, and Brian Doyle-Murray
Genre: Comedy
Based on the Saturday Night Live sketch of the same name, Wayne's World is a wacky, irreverent po...
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Kids
Kids
1995 | 91 Minutes | NRDirected by:Larry Clark
Starring:Leo Fitzpatrick, Justin Pierce, Chloe Sevigny, Sarah Henderson, and Rosario Dawson
Genre: Drama
Kids offers a bleak, unblinking view of a group of vacuous, thoughtless New York City teens in th...
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Rushmore
Rushmore
1998 | 93 Minutes | RDirected by:Wes Anderson
Starring:Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Olivia Williams, Brian Cox, and Seymour Cassel
Genre: Comedy Drama
After the highly acclaimed independent film Bottle Rocket, director Wes Anderson followed up with...
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Superbad
Superbad
2007 | 114 Minutes | RDirected by:Greg Mottola
Starring:Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Bill Hader, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse
Genre: Comedy
Operating under the assumption that by procuring alcohol for an upcoming party they will finally ...
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Mean Girls
Mean Girls
2004 | 97 Minutes | PG-13Directed by:Mark S. Waters
Starring:Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Lacey Chabert, Amanda Seyfried, and Tina Fey
Genre: Comedy
Tina Fey from Saturday Night Live wrote and appears in this comedy about the alternately funny an...
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L.I.E.
L.I.E.
2001 | 97 Minutes | NRDirected by:Michael Cuesta
Starring:Brian Cox, Paul Franklin Dano, Billy Kay, Bruce Altman, and James Costa
Genre: Drama
A teenaged boy in desperate need of a father figure finds one in a place no one should ever have ...
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Brick
Brick
2005 | 110 Minutes | RDirected by:Rian Johnson
Starring:Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lukas Haas, Nora Zehetner, Noah Segan, and Noah Fleiss
Genre: Crime Drama
A tough-talking teen attempts to uncover his ex-girlfriend's killer in director Rian Johnson's ha...
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Donnie Darko
Donnie Darko
2001 | 112 Minutes | RDirected by:Richard Kelly
Starring:Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Mary McDonnell, Drew Barrymore, and Patrick Swayze
Genre: Fantasy
Donnie (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a bright and charming high-school student who also has a dark and wil...
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Twilight
Twilight
2008 | 121 Minutes | PG-13Directed by:Catherine Hardwicke
Starring:Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, Peter Facinelli, and Elizabeth Reaser
Genre: Horror
When Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) reluctantly moved to the perpetually overcast town of Forks, WA...
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The Girl Next Door
The Girl Next Door
2004 | 109 Minutes | RDirected by:Luke Greenfield
Starring:Emile Hirsch, Elisha Cuthbert, Timothy Olyphant, James Remar, and Chris Marquette
Genre: Comedy
Boy meets girl who's already met all sorts of boys and girls in this teen-slanted comedy. Matthew...
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Precious
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
2009 | 109 Minutes | PGDirected by:Lee Daniels
Starring:Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, and Sherri Shepherd
Genre: Drama
Monster's Ball producer Lee Daniels follows up his 2005 directorial debut, Shadowboxer, with this...
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Not Another Teen Movie
Not Another Teen Movie
2001 | 88 Minutes | RDirected by:Joel Gallen
Starring:Chyler Leigh, Jaime Pressly, Chris Evans, Mia Kirshner, and Eric Christian Olsen
Genre: Comedy
Former MTV executive Joel Gallen makes his feature directorial debut with this broad spoof of the...
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Napoleon Dynamite
Napoleon Dynamite
2004 | 86 Minutes | PGDirected by:Jared Hess
Starring:Jon Heder, Jon Gries, Aaron Ruell, Efren Ramirez, and Diedrich Bader
Genre: Comedy
The directorial debut of filmmaker Jared Hess, who also co-wrote the screenplay, Napoleon Dynamit...
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The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games
2012 | 142 Minutes | PG-13Directed by:Gary Ross
Starring:Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Elizabeth Banks, and Stanley Tucci
Based on the best-selling young-adult novel by author Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games tells the...
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Easy A
Easy A
2010 | 92 Minutes | PG-13Directed by:Will Gluck
Starring:Emma Stone, Penn Badgley, Amanda Bynes, Dan Byrd, and Thomas Haden Church
Genre: Comedy
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is re-imagined as a contemporary high school comedy in t...
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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
2010 | 119 Minutes | PG-13Directed by:Edgar Wright
Starring:Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin, Chris Evans, and Anna Kendrick
Genre: Action/Adventure
Based on Bryan Lee O'Malley's Oni Press comic book of the same name, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ...
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Project X
Project X
2012 | 88 Minutes | RDirected by:Nima Nourizadeh
Starring:Thomas Mann, Oliver Cooper, Jonathan Daniel Brown, Dax Flame, and Kirby Bliss Blanton
Genre: Comedy
The Hangover's Todd Phillips produces this outrageous comedy from writers Matt Drake and Michael ...
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Kick-Ass
Kick-Ass
2010 | 117 Minutes | RDirected by:Matthew Vaughn
Starring:Aaron Johnson, Nicolas Cage, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Mark Strong, and Chloe Grace Moretz
Genre: Action/Adventure
Adapted from Mark Millar's hyper-violent comic book of the same name, director Matthew Vaughn's (...
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