I Saw the TV Glow (
2024) | IMDb:
0
Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate Maddy introduces him to a mysterious TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack.
Starring:
Justice Smith
,
Brigette Lundy-Paine
,
Helena Howard
,
Danielle Deadwyler
,
Amber Benson
,
Ian Foreman
Act Your Age (
2011) | IMDb:
6.6
Lake, a young theater actor with no respect for the elderly, is forced to make himself look old, in order to land a part in a Broadway-bound play. His ego drives his girlfriend away, and when research for the play requires him to spend a week in a nursing home, he is forced to review his life choices. Lake eventually learns to abandon his preconceptions and rid himself of the anger that has been holding him back, in pursuit of his dreams.
Starring:
Michael Muhney
,
Eddie Jones
,
Pat Morita
,
Adrienne Frantz
,
Frank Nicotero
,
Amber Benson
Directed by:
Robin Christian
Can't Hardly Wait (
1998) | IMDb:
6.5
It's graduation day at Huntington Hills High, and you know what that means - time to party. And not just any party, either. This one will be a night to remember, as the nerds become studs, the jocks are humiliated, and freshman crushes blossom into grown-up romance.
Starring:
Jennifer Love Hewitt
,
Ethan Embry
,
Charlie Korsmo
,
Lauren Ambrose
,
Peter Facinelli
,
Seth Green
King of the Hill (
1993) | IMDb:
7.3
Based on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follows the story of a boy struggling to survive on his own in a hotel in St. Louis after his mother is committed to a sanatorium with tuberculosis. His father, a German immigrant and traveling salesman working for the Hamilton Watch Company, is off on long trips from which the boy cannot be certain he will return.
Starring:
Jesse Bradford
,
Jeroen Krabbé
,
Lisa Eichhorn
,
Karen Allen
,
Spalding Gray
,
Elizabeth McGovern
The Crush (
1993) | IMDb:
5.8
A precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.
Starring:
Cary Elwes
,
Alicia Silverstone
,
Jennifer Rubin
,
Kurtwood Smith
,
Amber Benson
,
Gwynyth Walsh
Directed by:
Alan Shapiro