TEN BEST COMING OF AGE FILMS!

[flipp525]

I'm discounting films in which the characters stay young throughout - To Kill a Mockingbird, The Secret Garden, The Boy With the Green Hair, Old Yeller, The Yearling and so on because although the characters learn great life lessons they are a years way from coming of age as such.

Can you explain this further? I don't understand how someone can't come of age as a young teen. The coterie of Jem, Dill and Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird is a prime example of a group of children who are irrecovably changed and yes, coming of age, as a result of the very adult trials and tribulations they face during the events of the year Lee covers in her novel. I don't think "coming of age" has to literally translate into becoming physically older.



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[Big Magilla]

I'm discounting films in which the characters stay young throughout - To Kill a Mockingbird, The Secret Garden, The Boy With the Green Hair, Old Yeller, The Yearling and so on because although the characters learn great life lessons they are a years way from coming of age as such. So, off the top of my head...

David Copperfield
How Green Was My Valley
The Green Years
Breaking Away
Billy Elliott
This Boy's Life
The World According to Garp
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
A Room with a View
The Human Comedy

[FilmFan720]

Hmm, this is a tough one. What do you consider a coming of age film?

Here are my 10, kind of off the top of my head:

The 400 Blows/Stolen Kisses
Blue Velvet
The Fallen Idol
Harold and Maude
How Green Was My Valley
Pleasantville
Son of Rambow
Spirited Away
To Kill a Mockingbird
What's Eating Gilbert Grape?

[flipp525]

To Kill A Mockingbird
The Man in the Moon
Stand by Me
Edge of Seventeen
Heathers
Last Summer
Breaking Away
The World According to Garp
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
All Quiet on the Western Front



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[Sabin]

...you go first. Compiling a list.