In a trend some people trace to the 1986 coming-of-age movie "Stand by Me," mailbox-bashing has become a popular suburban pastime.

What at first seems like another sticky coming-of-age movie turns into a darker meditation on mob mentality.

"Jello Shots" is vaguely reminiscent of "200 Cigarettes," another coming-of-age movie scheduled for release in 1999.

Such feather weight sets the child-in-jeopardy thriller apart from serious coming-of-age movies.

Last Summer is a 1969 coming-of-age movie about adolescent sexuality.

Four young actresses, just as polished and much more believable than the adults, take over this pleasant, sweet, coming-of-age movie.

It is a coming-of-age movie about a working class boy who takes a summer job at a beach resort and learns valuable life lessons.

She next had the lead in the coming-of-age movie Seven Minutes in Heaven, released the same year.

Take the cozy little world of "Just Looking," a tiny but endearing coming-of-age movie set mostly in Queens in 1955.

Black coming-of-age movies of that period took themselves too seriously; the melancholy note they sounded was unrelieved and sentimental.