The Coming of Age Movie

14-05-2008 12:22

This week sees the release of Charlie Bartlett, the latest coming of age movie. Starring Anton Yelchin teenager Charlie Barlett has been expelled from another private school and finds himself at a public school.

Struggling to fit in Charlie becomes an underground, not to mention under-aged, shrink who only listens to the private confessions of his schoolmates, and makes the imprudent decision to hand out the pills he's proffered from his own psychiatric sessions.

Charlie Bartlett takes a look at high school life and how difficult everyone finds it to fit in and become comfortable with who they are.

But Charlie Bartlett is just the most recent in a long line of coming of age movies that have graced the big screen over the years here at FemaleFirst we take a look back at some of the best coming of age movies.

Napoleon Dynamite

Napoleon Dynamite is a 2004 independent film co-written and directed by Jared Hess and Jerusha Hess starring Jon Header.

Napoleon Dynamite (Heder) is a high-school outcast in every sense of the word. More interested in playing tetherball by himself and drawing pictures of his favourite animal, the "liger" (a combination of a lion and a tiger), Napoleon is ignored by everyone in his tiny hometown of Preston, Idaho.

At home, things aren't much better: his uber-nerd older brother, Kip (Aaron Ruell), and ultra-vain Uncle Rico (Jon Gries) are too busy with their own obsessions to give Napoleon the time of day.