Catalog Search Results
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Johanna Morrigan (Beanie Feldstein) is a bright, quirky, 16-year-old who reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde - a venerable, impossible-to-please music critic with an insatiable lust for fame, fortune, and men. It isn't long before the rapid pace at which Johanna's life is changing becomes overwhelming and she runs face-first into a devastatingly real, existential crisis: Is this the type of girl she wants to become? Or does she need to start over and...
3) Fitting In
Publisher
Blue Fox Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
This irreverent coming-of-age comedy follows 16-year-old Lindy, who is unexpectedly diagnosed with a reproductive condition. The news upends Lindy’s plans to have sex, her views on womanhood and sexuality, and her relationship with her mother. Most importantly, it changes her own relationship with herself. FITTING IN is a semi-autobiographical feature written and directed by Molly McGlynn.
4) Head On
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Over a 24-hour period, 19-year-old Ari confronts his sexuality and his Greek background. Ari is obsessed with sex and has sexual encounters with multiple people, most of them gay, and attempts to fulfill the sister of one of his best friends. At the same time, he is facing problems with his traditional Greek parents, who have no clue about his sexual and drug taking activities.
5) Earth Mama
Publisher
A24
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
With two children in foster care, Gia, a pregnant single mother pitted against the system, fights to reclaim her family. In her close-knit Bay Area community, she works to make a life for herself and her kids, in this singular debut feature from filmmaker Savanah Leaf. A glowing breakout at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival starring Tia Nomore, Erika Alexander, Doechii, and Dominic Fike.
Publisher
Visit Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
On the outskirts of Brooklyn, a fourteen-year-old's sexual quest takes a dangerous turn when she pursues an older guy and tests the boundaries between obsession and love. Nominated for Best Cinematography and the John Cassavetes Award at the **Film Independent Spirit Awards**. Nominated for Best of Next! at the **Sundance Film Festival**. "*Rarely has the zone between girlhood and womanhood been captured with such urgent honesty than in Eliza Hittman's...
7) Joyride
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
12-year-old Mully steals a taxi and is shocked to find Joy, in the back seat with her baby. Two loveable rogues go across Ireland, gradually finding the friendship and love they never knew they needed in each other.
Publisher
Blue Fox Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Based on the best-selling YA novel of the same name by Benjamin Alire Sáenz the film centers on the friendship between two teenage Mexican-American loners in 1987 El Paso who explore a new, unusual friendship and the magical road to self-discovery.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Bobby (Blake Cooper) is enduring a tortuous family vacation. His summer job is backbreaking, his parents appear on the verge of divorce, his sister is forcing him to keep her secrets, and his best friend is leaving. On top of that, a crazy townie is out to get him. Over the course of an emotional rollercoaster of a summer, Bobby learns what makes up the true measure of a man in this feel-good coming-of-age story co-starring Donald...
10) Casa Grande
Publisher
Visit Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Within Rio's social elite, a teenage boy struggles to escape his overprotective parents as his family spirals into bankruptcy. Winner of Best Film at the **Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival**. Nominated for a Tiger Award at the **International Film Festival Rotterdam**. "*Precariously balanced social structures maintaining class, race and expectations come crashing down in Casa grande, Fellipe Barbosa's well-made feature debut.*" - Jay Weissberg,...
11) L'Immensita
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Italiano
Description
Clara (Penélope Cruz) and Felice struggle to raise their three children in 1970s Rome. The eldest, Andrew, is transgender and yearns for another life where he gets to live as the boy he knows himself to be. Clara instinctively strives to protect her son by escaping into their imaginations to defuse family tensions. L'IMMENSITA is a creative and moving film about growing up and breaking the mold.
12) Pride
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The true, inspiring story of Jim Ellis, a charismatic school teacher who changed lives forever when he founded an African-American swim team in one of Philadelphia's roughest neighborhoods.
13) The Last Tree
Publisher
ArtMattan Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After a happy childhood in the countryside, a teenager moves to London, where he must navigate an unfamiliar environment on his road to adulthood.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
In the mid-1970's, in a sleepy Michigan community, live the Lisbon sisters, five teenagers whose beauty has bewitched a group of neighborhood boys. Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett and James Woods star in Sofia Coppola's feature debut. Nominated for the Golden Camera Award at the **Cannes Film Festival.** *"A disarmingly poetic - and specifically female - vision of adolescence that it belongs in a category of its own." - Moira MacDonald, **Seattle Times***...
16) Men Don't Leave
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winners Jessica Lange and Kathy Bates star with Chris O'Donnell and Joan Cusack in this poignant story of a family learning to live with the untimely loss of a husband and father.
17) Days of Eight
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Days of Eight" is set in 1968, in Dorchester, MA. The Vietnam War was at its peak and Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy had been assassinated. Boston was a city in turmoil, torn apart by racial strife and senseless acts of violence. 17-year-old Danny McSweeney is a good kid treading a fine line between standing up for what he believes in and maintaining his street cred. He's also helping his mother raise three kids after their father, a war...
18) Suburbia
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
English
Description
SUBURBIA is director Penelope Spheeris's study of the Los Angeles punk rock scene in the early 1980s. Evan and his younger brother leave their broken home in an attempt to escape their alcoholic mother. They fall in with "The Rejected" (aka T.R.), a group of punks who live as squatters in an abandoned home by the side of the highway. With T.R., the boys find a new family. But their newfound family will be tested when they become the target of "Citizens...
20) Wonderwell
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A coming-of-age fairy-tale set between modern-day Italy and the fantastical realm just beyond, Wonderwell follows Violet, a naive and inquisitive 12-year-old girl, on a thrilling adventure that transforms her life forever.
Didn't find it?
Didn't find it in the Minuteman Library Network? Request it from other Massachusetts library systems.
Can't find what you are looking for? Recommend it to your local library as a future purchase. Suggest a Purchase