#coming-of-age

#coming-of-age

Sixteen-year-old Smidge is on the run, burdened with a shameful secret. Together with her fellow runaway, a performance artist called Violet, she travels through the underbelly of America, desperately searching for a way to rise above her past. On meeting a travelling circus filled with misfits and drifters, they think they might have found a home. But as Violet is drawn under the influence of its sinister ringleader, Smidge learns that belonging comes with a price. Forced to choose between her past and present, Smidge must confront the shame that has shaped her, and return to face her flawed mother, before it is too late.

A stone carving of Nyami Nyami, the River God, the spirit snake. My first instinct was fear that one day I would break it. It looked fragile, a needle of stone with Nyami Nyami's serpentine body coiled up and gathered at the top, where instead of a snake's head, a fierce fish's head sprung out bearing sharp teeth. It was surprisingly heavy.

Tom is clearly in the Hardyesque tradition of unworldly young men who tend the land or work with their hands (Gabriel Oak, Jude Fawley), and it's this that alerts us to his vulnerability to charmers and chancers. Apprenticed by his pop at 14 (every other Flett had been a shrimper, going back to his great-grandpa), Tom nevertheless longs for a life less circumscribed.

The fact that the film has had the life that it's had, that it's transcended generations, was certainly not something that any of us anticipated when we made the film," Estevez told the Daily News in 2019. "How could you?

Lucija is a shy 16-year-old who is a member of her Catholic school's female choir; she joins the choir's special trip across the Italian border for a week in Cividale del Friuli.

"Have a Grubby day!" is a frequent refrain in Julian Glander's Boys Go to Jupiter. It's the catchphrase for Grubster, a Grubhub-esque food-delivery service for which Billy works, reflecting his life's humiliations in the gig economy.

Taylor, raised by a young single mom, masks her emotional vulnerability with sarcasm while managing her relationship with her boyfriend and complicated friendships.

My Adventures with Superman is a coming-of-age action-romance series that reimagines the early days of Clark Kent, Lois Lane, and Jimmy Olsen as 20-something interns at the Daily Planet.

"Drolma, a young Tibetan singer, struggles to adapt to the fast-paced life in Beijing, reflecting the tensions of globalization and cultural identity."

The series has me hooked. I'm already dreading its end - and searching for more shows like The Summer I Turned Pretty.

Ty's character embodies a typical teenage blend of humor, crisis, and quest for identity, revealing the inner life of a young adult navigating life's complexities.

I am a bit of a romantic,' game director Johan Oettinger told me, describing the relationship between the game's playable characters, Karla and Kurt. Typically, 'they can talk about anything. But they find themselves in a moment in their relationship with something new in the air.' But sadly, Oettinger added, 'they can't find the words' to say how they feel. Out of Words is a coming-of-age love story about the things we want to say but don't know how.

Lester's character embodies a passionate yearning for the theater, but his actions raise questions about realism and the personal consequences of pursuing dreams through disruptive behavior.

Ultimately, Byron's experience highlights a complex intersection of gender identity and exploitation, capturing both the struggle for self-understanding and the grim realities many young people face.

Murderbot, a self-aware security cyborg, navigates its newfound freedom while hoping to pursue trivial pastimes instead of its programmed duties.

At Camp Gonedoor, campers find their own unique meaning of 'coming of age', from confronting fears in the woods to exploring connections with crushes.

When I can't write, I watch a movie. When I can write - irrespective of whatever quick rhythm or new stuff is developing on the page - I watch a movie.

This is one of the themes and indeed the mechanics of Lost Records, a narrative adventure about four teenage girls who develop an intense friendship in rural Michigan during the summer of 1995.

The awkward longing, the spots, the insecurity: it's enough to cringe yourself into oblivion. For John Patrick McHugh, however, it is a rich seam to squeeze not only for humour, but for a nuanced examination of burgeoning masculinity.