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American films about school life and teenagers are most often filmed in the comedy genre. They are filled with mischievous humor, sincere feelings, the first experiences in life and lessons that life brings not only to young people, but also to their adult parents.
We bring to the attention of readers American films about school and teenagers – list with descriptions of the best films.
10 Simple | 2015
Comedy “Simple” (2015) opens the list of American films about school and teenagers. The main character of the film, Bianca, has been studying at school for the last year. Her girlfriends Jessie and Casey are popular at school, unlike her. They copy lessons from her and take them with them to parties in order to stand out against her background. But one day, school major Wesley opens her eyes to the truth and openly says that she takes the role of a fat ugly girlfriend. Bianca is offended to the core and decides to prove to everyone that she can be completely different and able to win the heart of the handsome Wesley.
9. Graduation | 2011
“High school graduation” (2011) – American comedy melodrama about school and teenagers. The plot of the film revolves around three young couples, each of which has its own story. One of the main characters, the beautiful Nova is the head of the class and worries about the upcoming graduation are thrown on her shoulders. She really wants to make everything perfect. Her thoughts are not only worries about graduation, but also the feelings that have arisen for the school bad boy Jesse. An important decision is to be made not only by these two main characters, but also by their friends, who are trying to maintain relationships in anticipation of parting.
8. Dad is 17 again | year 2009
“Daddy is 17 again” (2009) – a film about Mike, a father of two children, who, by the will of fate, again becomes a school teenager. His life is going awry, and he realizes that it needs to be changed. And then one day he is given such a magical chance – a thirty-five-year-old hero wakes up as a seventeen-year-old teenager. Mike gets to the school where his children study. He will have to establish relations with his descendants and become a true friend for them. He will make new discoveries for himself about his children and learn a lot about himself.
7. Boy in girl | 2006
“Boy in a Girl” (2006) – American comedy about the school and personal lives of two completely different teenagers, the football player Woody and the shy and exemplary student Nell. They can’t stand each other and are constantly at odds. But everything changes when they swap bodies one morning. At first, the heroes try to harm the reputation of their new image, but there comes a moment when, having made a deal between themselves, they achieve unprecedented success and realize that they can no longer live without each other.
6. Through the lens | 2008
“Through the Lens” (2008) – American comedy film about the school and life of teenagers. In the center of the plot is the coolest school guy Drew and far from the most beautiful girl in Mandy’s school. One day, Drew invites the heroine to a party. But what if she has a strict father who only allows her to leave the house to do homework with her girlfriends? She is released on the pretext that Drew is going to study with classmates, but with one condition: every thirty minutes she must contact the parent via video link. The girl is ready for any tricks, just to get to a party where her object of adoration will be.
5. Freaky Friday | 2003
Freaky Friday (2003) – American comedy film about a teenage girl Anna and her mother, Dr. Tessa Colman, who cannot find a common language with each other. Their life attitudes and tastes diverge literally in everything. This applies not only to fashion, hairstyles and music, but also to men. Quarrels shake the house all the time: Tess does not approve of her daughter’s musical tastes, and Anna cannot stand her mother’s fiancé, although the wedding is already scheduled for Saturday. One Thursday, these disagreements reach their peak. And then fate magically decides to throw them a test – early on Friday morning, mother and daughter discover that they have switched bodies …
4. Very bad teacher | 2011
“Very bad teacher” (2011) – American comedy about the school life of students and their teacher Elizabeth Halsey, who frankly hates her job. She leaves Elizabeth’s school, going down the aisle for her rich boyfriend, but he rebuffs her under pressure from her mother. And now the heroine is forced to return to the work of a teacher again. There she meets a new teacher whose parents built their fortune in the watch business. To get the attention of a young teacher, she tries to show feelings and get his recognition. At the same time, Elizabeth is eager to enlarge her breasts and does not at all engage in her direct teaching duties. Her students get bad grades for tests, and the teacher herself swears and even smokes weed.
3. Homework | 2011
“Homework” (2011) – American melodrama about a reserved teenage boy George. The main character has little interest in life. He has a talent for drawing, but this gift is wasted, as well as the school education of a guy who has not listened to teachers for a long time and does not do his homework. But one day, George meets a difficult girl, Sally, who takes a friendly interest in him. Over time, this relationship develops into something more than friendly sympathy, and George faces the most important lesson in his life – the lesson of love, which he simply must learn.
2. A student of easy virtue | 2010
“Excellent student of easy virtue” (2010) – American film about the school and personal life of a teenage girl Olive. She lied to her classmate that she had lost her innocence, but the heroine will soon have to regret her lie. Word of her lost innocence spreads throughout the school, thanks to a puritan peer who overheard her friends talking. Overnight, Olive becomes an outcast, on which the stigma of a girl of easy virtue weighs. Oliva’s extraordinary sense of humor and her trusting ancestors help her cope with the current situation.
1. Rebel | 2006
“Rebel” (2006) – American comedy about a teenage girl named Hayley, who is a promising gymnast. But one day she finds out that her mother is cheating on her father with her coach. The girl refuses to compete in the upcoming competitions, which brings the team down and deliberately destroys her sports career. She decides to live the normal life of a typical teenager, thereby expressing her protest and indignation. The girl begins to disregard public morality and rules, makes acquaintances with dubious types. Her actions are sometimes reckless and shock others. Hayley is a hooligan with might and main and one day she crosses the line of what is permitted: she breaks into someone else’s house on a bicycle. Now she faces a prison … or a closed gymnastics school. She chooses the second, but even there the heroine continues to set her own rules.