When Kym (Anne Hathaway) returns to the Buchman family home for the wedding of her sister Rachel (Rosemarie Dewitt), she brings a long history of personal crisis and family conflict along with her. The wedding party’s abundant cast of friends and relations have gathered for an idyllic weekend of feasting, music and love, but Kym…
Category: Teen Romances
Sex Drive (2008)
Tagline: He’s leaving virgin territory. At 18, Ian Lafferty (Josh Zuckerman) is struggling through his last summer before college, and he can’t seem to catch a break. He’s taunted by his cocksure older brother Rex, shown up in the romance department by his 14-year-old younger brother and humiliated by his job at the donut shop…
Smart People (2008)
Tagline: Sometimes the smartest people have the most to learn. Lawrence Wethrehold is a widowed, acerbic and self-absorbed literature professor who has alienated his son and turned his daughter into an overachieving, friendless teen. He falls for Janet, one of his former students, while at the same time his ne’er-do-well brother unexpectedly shows up at…
Step Up 2: The Streets (2008)
Tagline: It’s not where you’re from. It’s where you’re at. The follow-up to the smash box-office hit “Step Up” takes the story of urban street dancing to the next stage with an electrifying new story of bodies, hearts and dreams in motion. Rebellious newcomer Andie (Briana Evigan) is an outcast trying to fit in at…
The Tracey Fragments (2008)
Tagline: Something’s missing. 15-year-old Tracey Berkowitz (Ellen Page) is naked under a tattered shower curtain at the back of a bus, looking for her little brother Sonny (Zie Souwand), who thinks he’s a dog. Tracey’s journey leads us into the dark underbelly of the city, into the emotional cesspool of her home, through the brutality…
Water Lilies (Naissance des Pieuvres) (2008)
Water Lilies (French: Naissance des Pieuvres meaning “birth of the octopuses”) is a 2007 French film and the debut as a screenwriter and director of Céline Sciamma. The film tracks the sexual awakenings of three 15-year-old female friends in a middle class suburb of Paris over the course of a single summer. Finding privacy in…