http://www.noripcord.com/tags/film/coming-age The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://www.noripcord.com/reviews/film/sex-drive <p>College buddy movie, teen sex movie, whatever it is the kids are calling this sort of thing these days, it makes me embarrassed to be under the age of 30 and just a little bit thankful, for once, to be cursed with a prematurely receding hairline. The problem with <i>Sex Drive</i> is that, point blank, the coming-of-age comedy has grown up, grown balls, and grown out of the embarrassing flaws it exhibited in the 90s, even if its target audience has steadily regressed into a state of prolonged adolescence.<p><a href="http://www.noripcord.com/reviews/film/sex-drive">read more</a></p> http://www.noripcord.com/reviews/film/sex-drive#comments college buddy coming of age sean anders teen sex teensploitation Sun, 21 Dec 2008 06:17:30 +0000 George Smith 1090 at http://www.noripcord.com http://www.noripcord.com/reviews/film/persepolis <p>Based on Marjane Satrapi&rsquo;s graphic novel of the same name, <em>Persepolis</em> is essentially the coming of age story of a young girl in Iran, before, during and after the 1979 Islamic revolution. The film is told from the point of view of Marjane, who was around ten years old at the time of the revolution, and so reflects on the situation from a child&rsquo;s perspective, and the child of a reasonably affluent communist family in Tehran at that.<p><a href="http://www.noripcord.com/reviews/film/persepolis">read more</a></p> http://www.noripcord.com/reviews/film/persepolis#comments animated coming of age France Iran Marjane Satrapi Wed, 14 May 2008 17:21:15 +0000 David Coleman 893 at http://www.noripcord.com