1990s teen comedy-drama films

Rushmore

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1998 IMDB Rating: 7.6

When a beautiful first-grade teacher arrives at a prep school, she soon attracts the attention of an ambitious teenager named Max, who quickly falls in love with her. Max turns to the father of two of...

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Pleasantville

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1998 IMDB Rating: 7.5

Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and find a world where everything is peachy keen all...

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New Waterford Girl

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1999 IMDB Rating: 6.9

A gifted teenager, dreaming of life beyond her small town, becomes inspired when a 15-year-old girl from New York moves in next door.

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Now and Then

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1995 IMDB Rating: 6.8

Waxing nostalgic about the bittersweet passage from childhood to puberty, four childhood girlfriends — Teeny, Chrissy, Samantha and Roberta — recall the magical summer of 1970. During their walk down...

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Empire Records

Film Age rating: 13 Year: 1995 IMDB Rating: 6.7

The employees of an independent music store learn about each other as they try anything to stop the store being absorbed by a large chain.

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Mermaids

Film Age rating: 6 Year: 1990 IMDB Rating: 6.7

Fifteen-year-old Charlotte Flax is tired of her wacky mom moving their family to a different town any time she feels it is necessary. When they move to a small Massachusetts town and Mrs. Flax begins...

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Angus

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1995 IMDB Rating: 6.7

Angus is a large, pathetic 14-year-old whose thoughts are most often filled with the image of only one girl, Melissa Lefevre. Angus is shy and thinks that he has no chance of ever 'getting' her. Being...

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Varsity Blues

Film Age rating: 13 Year: 1999 IMDB Rating: 6.5

In small-town Texas, high school football is a religion, 17-year-old schoolboys carry the hopes of an entire community onto the gridiron every Friday night. When star quarterback Lance Harbor suffers...

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Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1990 IMDB Rating: 5.8

Movie star Roxy Carmichael is abandoning the bright lights of Hollywood, Calif. and returning to her small Ohio hometown -- at least long enough to dedicate a city building. And now the whole town of...

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