As the youngest of the family, Sam is haunted by the notion that someday he could become the last remaining survivor, all alone. On a family vacation at the beach, he meets the unconventional Tess, who carries her own secrets around with her and shows him how the present moment can win out over memories and anxiety about what’s yet to come.
Tag: coming of age
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The Summer I Turned 15
The story Peter is telling the about a special summer, when he is invited over to summer holiday from bickering parents, to his aunt and uncle in the country. He’s been there before, but this summer was quite one to remember.
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Udaan
Upon returning to his industrial hometown, a young man must decide whether to follow his own dreams or acquiesce to his father’s plans for his future.
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Sleep Sweet, My Darling
“Sleep Sweet, My Darling” shows a bittersweet coming of age of Tomica Skrinjar, starting at the tail end of World War II in 1945.
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The Switchblade Sisterhood
A young woman discovers second-wave feminism, while meeting with her estranged half-sister, as they encounter the grief, rage, jealousy and injustice that govern their lives. The academic and political discussion of women’s liberation and feminism (as part of the sexual revolution of the 1970s) draws inspiration from ‘The Scum Manifesto’ by Valerie Solanas and juxtaposes these passage with country music from the same era; notably ‘The Pill’ by Loretta Lynn, ‘Just Because I’m A Woman’ by Dolly Parton and, most centrally, ‘Stand By Your Man’ by Tammy Wynette.
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Frozen Hot Boys
Driven by her personal agenda, a teacher at a juvenile detention center convinces a crew of teenage misfits to enter an snow sculpting contest in Japan.
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An Orphan’s Tragedy
Rascal To Chai-yan brings a false charge of selling fake medicine against doctor Fan Tin-sang, who is sentented to a twenty-year imprisonment. Fan makes an escape after a decade, and secretly provides for the education of his son Fuk-kwan brought up by a poor blacksmith. Fuk-kwan grows up to be a doctor practising in the country. To again does harm to Fuk-kwan, only this time Fan intervenes. Both he and To die in the fight.
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The Wild Chicks and Life
The Wild Chicks are slowly growing out of their youthful gang years and have to face the worries of growing up on the sidelines of a big class trip before graduation.
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1981
Filmmaker Ricardo Trogi recalls the events surrounding his family moving to a new neighborhood when he was 11 years old.
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35 Shots of Rum
A widower and his daughter witness the retirement of a colleague of his and the closing of her department at her university.