The shitty coming-of-age movies
These movies are all trash and remind me of high school and make me want to barf. I made this list to emphasize how garbage these movies are.
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- DirectorDan BeersStarsJohn KarnaCaroline TraywickKate KneelandA high school senior has to re-live losing his virginity over and over again until he gets it right, with the right girl.
- DirectorChris McCoyStarsNicholas BraunZoey DeutchMateo AriasFour high school students look to redefine themselves after graduation.
- DirectorTony McNamaraStarsMickey RourkeNat WolffEmma RobertsHigh-school student Ed Wallis enters into a friendship with his neighbor, Ashby, a retired CIA assassin who only has a few months left to live.
- DirectorJason WinnStarsChristopher RiveraKelly WashingtonChris BertJimmy always gets teased by the football team for being overweight. As a school assignment he writes about it in his journal, but soon he finds out that he's not the only kid in school with problems.
- DirectorLiz W. GarciaStarsKristen BellMamie GummerMartin StarrA former valedictorian quits her reporter job in New York and returns to the place she last felt happy: her childhood home in Connecticut. She gets work as a lifeguard and starts a dangerous relationship with a troubled teenager.
- DirectorJulia HartStarsLily RabeTimothée ChalametLili ReinhartA heart-broken teacher chaperones a group of high schoolers to a state drama competition.
- DirectorDavid SchwimmerStarsClive OwenCatherine KeenerLiana LiberatoA teenage girl is targeted by an online sexual predator.
- DirectorSofia CoppolaStarsKatie ChangIsrael BroussardEmma WatsonInspired by actual events, a group of fame-obsessed teenagers use the internet to track celebrities' whereabouts in order to rob their homes.
- DirectorMatthew LillardStarsJacob WysockiMatt O'LearyBilly CampbellA dropout comes to the aid of a chubby and suicidal high-school kid by recruiting him as the drummer for his upstart punk-rock band.
- DirectorRhys ThomasStarsGraham PhillipsZack PearlmanAshley GreenePals Danny and Frank spend the summer after high school working as lifeguards while figuring out their future.
- DirectorTony AloupisStarsEvan PetersJuno TempleChristine LahtiA teenage boy and girl discover a renewed sense of possibility as they go on a road trip to photograph lighthouses along the California coast.
- DirectorChristopher LandonStarsTye SheridanLogan MillerJoey MorganThree scouts, on the eve of their last camp-out, discover the true meaning of friendship when they attempt to save their town from a zombie outbreak.
- DirectorJonathan KasdanStarsDylan O'BrienBritt RobertsonVictoria JusticeA shy senior and a down-to-earth junior fall in love over one weekend.
- DirectorAri SandelStarsAdam DevineAlexandra DaddarioShelley HennigNoah meets Avery at a Halloween party and falls in love but gets friend-zoned. 3 years later, she's engaged to someone else. Noah returns in a time machine to fix things.
- DirectorSteve CarrStarsGriffin GluckLauren GrahamAlexa NisensonAfter his new principal Dwight destroys his sketchbook, Rafe Khatchadorian and his best friend Leo decide to metaphorically destroy Dwight's book by breaking every rule in the school's Code of Conduct.
- DirectorBo BurnhamStarsElsie FisherJosh HamiltonEmily RobinsonAn introverted teenage girl tries to survive the last week of her disastrous eighth grade year before leaving to start high school.
- DirectorWilliam BindleyStarsK.J. ApaMaia MitchellNorman Johnson Jr.Standing on the precipice of adulthood, a group of friends navigate new relationships, while reexamining others, during their final summer before college.
- DirectorKaren MaineStarsNatalia DyerTimothy SimonsWolfgang NovogratzAfter an innocent AOL chat turns racy, a Catholic teenager in the early 2000s discovers masturbation and struggles to suppress her new urges in the face of eternal damnation.
- DirectorJake GoldbergerStarsFreddie HighmoreOdeya RushChristopher MeloniCharlie, an unmotivated man in his mid-20s still living at home with his mother and stepfather, falls for a young woman who has a serious boyfriend.
- DirectorJon PollStarsAnton YelchinRobert Downey Jr.Hope DavisA rich kid becomes the self-appointed psychiatrist to the student body of his new high school.
- DirectorJosh BooneStarsGreg KinnearJennifer ConnellyLily CollinsAn acclaimed writer, his ex-wife, and their teenaged children come to terms with the complexities of love in all its forms over the course of one tumultuous year.
- DirectorTim GarrickStarsNat WolffSelena GomezMary-Louise ParkerTeenager Rick Stevens has a crush on Nina Pennington. They form a friendship and take a rock'n'roll journey together while Nina deals with her overbearing boyfriend Kevin.
- DirectorChad L. ScheifeleStarsMason DyeRyan MunzertAnthony Michael HallAs the new kid, a shy high school senior finds himself tormented by all his peers except one, but his new friend has a dark, infectious outlook.
- DirectorKerem SangaStarsRyan MalgariniHaley Lu RichardsonJoshua MalinaTwo nerdy Caltech students hook up and end up on a journey throughout California after they find out one is pregnant with the other's twins.
- DirectorElijah BynumStarsTimothée ChalametMaika MonroeAlex RoeIn 1991, a sheltered teenage boy comes of age during a wild summer he spends on Cape Cod getting rich from selling pot to gangsters, falling in love for the first time, partying and eventually realizing that he is in over his head.