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A feature-film shortlist from the cached Film Atlas engine. The interactive map may include more titles or newer results. These are similarity matches, not a guarantee of age suitability.

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   That's What I Am

   Strong story similarity

   2011 · 101 min · Comedy · Drama · Family · Romance

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   A coming-of-age story that follows 12-year-old Andy Nichol, a bright student who, like most kids his age, will do anything to avoid conflict for fear of suffering overwhelming ridicule and punishment from his junior high school peers.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared coming of age movie style

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   Laggies

   Strong story similarity

   2014 · 100 min · Comedy · Drama · Romance

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   Overeducated and underemployed, 28 year old Megan is in the throes of a quarterlife crisis. Squarely into adulthood with no career prospects, no particular motivation to think about her future and no one to relate to, Megan is comfortable lagging a few steps behind - while her friends check off milestones and celebrate their new grown-up status. When her high-school sweetheart proposes, Megan panics and- given an unexpected opportunity to escape for a week - hides out in the home of her new friend, 16-year old Annika and Annika's world-weary single dad Craig.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong shared themes: coming of age and parent child relationship
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   An Education

   Strong story similarity

   2009 · 100 min · Drama · Romance

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   Despite her sheltered upbringing, Jenny is a teen with a bright future; she's smart, pretty, and has aspirations of attending Oxford University. When David, a charming but much older suitor, motors into her life in a shiny automobile, Jenny gets a taste of adult life that she won't soon forget.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong shared themes: adolescence and coming of age
   • shared coming of age movie style

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   Juno

   Strong story similarity

   2007 · 96 min · Comedy · Drama · Romance

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   Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, sixteen year old high-schooler, Juno MacGuff, makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong shared themes: becoming an adult and coming of age
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   It's Kind of a Funny Story

   Strong story similarity

   2010 · 102 min · Comedy · Drama · Romance

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   A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong shared themes: based on young adult novel and coming of age
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   Geography Club

   Strong story similarity

   2013 · 84 min · Comedy · Drama · Romance

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   A coming-of-age movie that tells a story unfolding in every high school around the country -- a story of kids hiding their true identities in plain sight, even as they feverishly pursue their hearts' desires.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared themes: based on young adult novel and coming of age

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   The Spectacular Now

   Similar atmosphere

   2013 · 95 min · Comedy · Drama · Romance

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   Sutter, a popular party animal, unexpectedly meets the introverted Aimee after waking up on a stranger's lawn. As Sutter deals with the problems in his life and Aimee plans for her future beyond school, an unexpected romance blossoms between them.

   Why it connects

   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared themes: based on young adult novel and coming of age

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   Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

   Strong story similarity

   2023 · 106 min · Comedy · Drama

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   When her family moves from New York City to New Jersey, an 11-year-old girl navigates new friends, feelings, and the beginning of adolescence.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong shared themes: adolescence and coming of age
   • shared coming of age movie style

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   Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

   Strong story similarity

   2015 · 105 min · Comedy · Drama

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   Greg is coasting through senior year of high school as anonymously as possible, avoiding social interactions like the plague while secretly making spirited, bizarre films with Earl, his only friend. But both his anonymity and friendship threaten to unravel when his mother forces him to befriend a classmate with leukemia.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared themes: based on young adult novel and coming of age
   • shared coming of age movie style

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    Blinded by the Light

    Same director

    2019 · 117 min · Comedy · Drama

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    In 1987, during the austere days of Thatcher’s Britain, a teenager learns to live life, understand his family, and find his own voice through the music of Bruce Springsteen.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • the same director
    • shared themes: coming of age and woman director

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