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NEW JERSEY, 1999. Kimberly is about to turn sixteen and has recently moved with her family to a new town in suburban New Jersey. Suffering from a disease that causes her to age four and a half times faster than her high school peers, surrounded by a dysfunctional family (and possible felony charges), Kimberly is also navigating her first teenage crush. Ever the optimist, Kimberly is determined to find happiness against all odds and embark on a great...
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 94 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
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For summer vacation, two groups of high school students hitchhike to the Baltic Sea, where fun and trouble mix to create ties of friendship and love. After DEFA made a number of "pessimistic" films for teenagers, this musical was a breakthrough into unrestrained entertainment and was one of East Germany's top box-office hits. Hot Summer was featured in the 1997 documentary on East Bloc musicals, Eastside Story. While hitchhiking to the Baltic, a group...
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (91 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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A taut, nuanced story about the depths of female friendships and the dark side of teenage infatuations. BREATHE, the sophomore directorial effort from Melanie Laurent (Inglourious Basterds, Beginners), is an assured adaptation of the sensational French young adult novel of the same name. Charlie (Josephine Japy) is seventeen and bored. Her estranged parents are too caught up in their own drama to pay her much attention. School holds no surprises either,...
4) Sophie Jones
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Inspired by true experiences of grief, girlhood, and growing up, Jessie Barr’s SOPHIE JONES provides a stirring portrait of a sixteen year old. Stunned by the untimely death of her mother and struggling with the myriad challenges of teendom, Sophie (played with striking immediacy by the director’s cousin Jessica Barr) tries everything she can to feel something again, while holding herself together, in this sensitive, acutely realized, and utterly...
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Belle, her little sister, and her comatose twin brother move into a new house with their single mother Joan in order to save money to help pay for her brother's expensive healthcare. But when strange phenomena begin to occur in the house, including the miraculous recovery of her brother, Belle begins to suspect her mother isn't telling her everything, and soon realizes they just moved into the infamous Amityville house.
6) Turning red
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A teenage girl possesses the ability to turn into a red panda anytime she gets excited.
7) Babyteeth
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When ill teenager Milla falls madly in love with smalltime drug dealer Moses, it's her parents' worst nightmare. Milla soon shows everyone in her orbit - her parents, Moses, a sensitive music teacher, a budding child violinist, and a disarmingly honest, pregnant neighbor - how to live like you have nothing to lose. What might have been a disaster for the Finlay family instead leads to letting go and finding grace in the glorious chaos of life. Based...
8) Girlhood
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Fed up with her abusive family situation, lack of school prospects and the "boys' law" in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls. She changes her name, her style, drops out of school and starts stealing to be accepted into the gang. When her home situation becomes unbearable, Marieme seeks solace in an older man who promises her money and protection. Realizing this sort of lifestyle will never...
9) Girl asleep
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The world is closing in on 14 year-old Greta Driscoll. A teen at a cross roads, she can’t bear to leave her childhood behind because it contains all the delightful things that give her comfort in this otherwise incomprehensible world. Existing in a bubble of security alongside only friend Elliott, Greta’s parents decide to throw her a surprise birthday party where she’s taken well out of her comfort zone and flung into a strange parallel world...
10) Gimme shelter
Pub. Date
2014
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1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Based on inspiring true events, a teenage girl flees life with her drug-addicted mother to find the wealthy father she's never known. Tells the extraordinary and courageous tale of one girl's fight against the odds to find redemption and, ultimately, to create a family she can call her own.
11) Eighth grade
Pub. Date
2018
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1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school (the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year) before she begins high school.
12) Female trouble
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Criterion collection volume 929
Pub. Date
[2018]
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1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
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Enraged after her parents would not buy her cha-cha heels for Christmas, teenager Dawn Davenport turns to a life of crime.
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Recently orphaned Corinne "Third Degree" Burns enlists her sister and cousin to launch a punk rock band, The Stains. Three rehearsals later, The Stains score the opening slot on a cross-country tour with aging metal act The Metal Corpses and British punk rockers The Looters. The Stains' meteoric rise (and equally lightning-quick fall) owes more to TV exposure than to talent.
14) Mean girls
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[2017]
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1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Having been home-schooled and raised in the African bush, Cady is unprepared for the cut-throat politics of public school.
16) Inside out 2
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2024.
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1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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"Inside Out 2 returns to the mind of newly minted teenager Riley just as headquarters is undergoing a sudden demolition to make room for something entirely unexpected: new Emotions! Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust, who've been running a successful operation, aren't sure how to feel when Anxiety shows up--and she's not alone." --container
17) Very good girls
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Two New York City girls make a pact to lose their virginity during their first summer out of high school. They both fall for the same street artist and find their friendship tested for the first time.
Pub. Date
2011.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (243 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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From the creators of Ghost in the Shell comes a wonderfully expressive and beautifully hand-drawn animated tale that combines bursts of whimsy and kinetic humor with deeply felt emotion and drama. The last time Momo saw her father they had a fight - and now all she has left to remember him by is an incomplete letter, a blank piece of paper penned with the words "Dear Momo," but nothing more. Moving with her mother to the remote Japanese island of...
Pub. Date
[2010]
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4 videodiscs (650 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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At 13 years old, Maya Kitajima seems destined to spend the rest of her life toiling in a crowded restaurant alongside her bitter and unstable mother. But when her incredible acting talent is discovered by the legendary diva Chigusa Tsukikage, Maya finds a new future filled with both golden opportunities and terrifying risks. For Ayumi Himekawa, success has always been assured, yet she longs to be recognized for her own talents and skills, not the...



