<p>Secondhand Lions</p>
<p>I Capture the Castle
Cold Comfort Farm
Little Women
Emma
Billy Elliott
To Kill a Mockingbird
Paper Moon</p>
<p>UCLAri, for me the appeal of Whale Rider is the character Poi’s determination, in the face of her granfather’s absolute stubborness.</p>
<p>Tsdad, I have to admit that I was a big Robbie Benson fan back in the 70s. Thought “The Chosen” was a good movie, and I’m not even Jewish (but as someone was said, nobody’s perfect). LOL</p>
<p>I saw a TV (PBS?) performance, recorded live, of Our Town with Robbie Benson as the young man who marries the character of Emily. He was wonderful in that. That was a great production: Hal Holbrook as the Stage Manager, Sada Thompson as one of the mothers. My favorite play…and that could be considered a coming of age story.</p>
<p>Some not mentioned yet:</p>
<p>About Last Night
Big
Cider House Rules
Harry Potter movies
Spiderman
Star Wars Episode II
Risky Business
Spanglish</p>
<p>Lake:</p>
<p>I thought I was the only person who knew that movie.</p>
<p>And btw, was the Mott the Hoople book a coming of age story? I can’t remember. A very bizarre piece of writing.</p>
<p>How about Mystic Pizza?</p>
<p>Goodbye Columbus (anyone else love that movie- early Ally McGraw/Richard Benjamin).</p>
<p>I loved Mystic Pizza and Sterile Cuckoo.</p>
<p>Coming of Age: Power of Woman over Men. </p>
<p>Irma la Deuce
Never on Sunday
The Apartment</p>
<p>I don’t think I would call “The Apartment” a coming of age movie. But I am Jack Lemmon’s No. 1 fan nevertheless. And MacMurray was great too. If you liked that movie you will probably enjoy “Any Wednesday” also. Jason Robards, Jane Fonda and Dean Jones.</p>
<p>I am still waiting to see “Goodbye Columbus.” I have fond memories of Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss in the TV show “He and She.”</p>
<p>OK, I can’t believe, I didn’t think of this earlier and that no one has brought it up yet. I have let myself down. I have left the cafe down. I have left the nation down and I humbly apologize for my most grievous oversight.</p>
<p>The greatest coming of age movie ever is:</p>
<p>Animal House</p>
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<p>What a delightful movie that was! Wasn’t that a young Diane Lane who played the female role?</p>
<p>Dead Poet Society</p>
<p>To Sir With Love (Sidney Poitier and Lulu ! )</p>
<p>I watched The Graduate 17 times and then saw it 20 years later, when I identified with the PARENTS (Ben’s not Elaine’s) but who knew?</p>
<p>“me? im scared of everything.
im scared of what i saw, of what i did, of who i am…
but most of all, im scared of walking out of this room
and never feeling the rest of my whole life,
the way i feel when im w/ you” </p>
<p>Dirty Dancing
“Nobody puts Baby in the corner”</p>
<p>Dirty Dancing is my Favorite! Anyone else think Monique on “Dancing with the Stars” looks sort of like Jennifer Gray in that movie? Young, kind of baby-faced, learning to dance? </p>
<p>And Cinema Paradiso.</p>
<p>Nobody nominated West Side Story?</p>
<p>Movies: Stand by ME or whichever John Hughes film I’ve seen most recently.</p>
<p>Honorable mention: Not a film, but the TV show “The Wonder Years” was pretty consistently dead-on at capturing the feel of coming off age in the 60s, and could often be surprisingly touching. The copy-cat “State of Grace,” which featured Frances McDormand as the narrator, was sometimes almost as good as the real item.</p>
<p>If we’re talking TV shows, my daughter worshipped at the altar of “Freaks & Geeks” and “My So-Called Life”, both of which did slightly different, but similarly excellent, takes on the mid-teen years. And, sadly, few enough episodes of each were ever made that either can be seen in full over the course of a few days.</p>
<p>I forget did anyone mention these?</p>
<p>“Better Off Dead”</p>
<p>Strangely: “Meatballs”</p>
<p>… and think about it: “Gone With the Wind”</p>