The film follows a group of high school students growing up in southern California and is supposedly based on the real-life adventures of Cameron Crowe. They hang out in malls, listen to rock'n'roll and hunt for sex like any normal teen slackers. The centre of the film is held by Jeff Spicoli, a perpetually stoned surfer dude, who faces off with the resolute Mr Hand, a man convinced that everyone is on dope. A superior teen comedy about a bunch of kids facing the hassles of growing up dealing wi find out more...

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A coming of age story set in a small town within the vast emptiness of Patagonia. Three teenagers with raging hormones and time on their hands find ways to amuse themselves. Getting high, getting off with each other, getting caught and ultimately beginning to grow up. find out more...

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A sci-fi story centered on the sexual awakening of a group of college students. Smith's everyday life in the dorm - hanging out with his arty, sarcastic best friend Stella, hooking up with a beautiful free spirit named London, lusting for his gorgeous but dim surfer roommate Thor - all gets turned upside-down after one fateful, terrifying night. Araki creates a fun psychedelic film, with a high sex content and a kicking soundtrack. But not a lot else... find out more...

After the first 10 minutes of Minding the Gap, I began to wonder why this film was nominated for an Oscar for best Documentary. How could a skateboarding documentary made by a young filmmaker be that great? Well, I was very wrong. This film about skateboarding covered many different issues, including child abuse, drug/alcohol abuse, poverty, teen parenting, racial prejudice find out more...

Harry, his girlfriend Marion, his mother, and his best mate are all addicts and all desperate for some form of contentment, perhaps even happiness. Requiem for a Dream is utterly engrossing and visually striking, a story where hope is all the characters have, but where their hope will drag them into an abyss of shattered dreams and misery; truly harrowing and determined in its lack of redemption, the film is simply unmissable. find out more...

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Half of the 'Breakfast Club' feature in new roles in this post-university drama about love, friendship and growing up. Alec's working his way up the political ladder while working his was around DC's ladies. He says he'll quit when his long time girlfriend Leslie marries him but Kevin doesn't trust him. Leslie's best friend Jules is sleeping with her boss and getting a little too wasted for anyone's liking. Speaking of getting wasted, bad boy Billy's got a wife and kid but acts like he's still i find out more...

1969; not very successful interior designer Eliot returns from Greenwich Village to help out his struggling parents with their failing motel in upstate New York. Hearing about the cancellation of a nearby hippie festival he thinks he can drum up some business by offering them a location... and the rest is history!
There is not much music in this comic glowing tribute to the flower power era, more a starry-eyed mosaic of characters drifting in and out of focus.
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