Taglines: Love don’t cost a thing but it pays to be yourself. This movie is a modern day update of the classic 1987 teen movie “Can’t Buy Me Love,” Alvin Johnson is a high-school senior, a likable brilliant outcast who regrets the years of intellectual endeavors that kept him and his un-hip friends from learning…
Category: Teen Romances
Pieces of April (2003)
Tagline: She’s the one in every family. Katie Holmes is outstanding as the title character in Peter Hedges’s Pieces of April. Katie Holmes stars as April Burns, the black sheep of her family who has left suburbia for a Lower East Side tenement. Pieces of April is an American comedy-drama film written and directed by…
Thirteen (2003)
A young straight-A student befriends a schoolmate who eventually turns her on to sex, drugs, and self-mutilation, in addition to convincing her to ditch studying. Holly Hunter plays the girl’s mom and is powerless to stop her daughter’s descent. Thirteen is Catherine Hardwicke’s explosive portrait of teenage girls at their very worst. Mean, manipulative, conniving,…
What A Girl Wants (2003)
Taglines: Trying to fit in. Born to stand out. Daphne Reynolds (Amanda Bynes) has what every girl wants – or so it seems. This spirited young American girl has a unique style all her own, an unconventional but loving relationship with her bohemian mother Libby (Kelly Preston) and a future full of possibilities – but…