16 July 2009

The Kids Aren’t Alright

Three films about troubled teenagers:

Adapted from the novel by Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange tells the story of Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell), a bowler-hatted, Beethoven-loving juvenile delinquent whose penchant for "a bit of the old ultra-violence" lands him in jail, where he volunteers for the Ludovico Technique, an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government to supposedly "cure" criminals.

Described as "Beverly Hills, 90210 on acid", Nowhere is the final instalment in writer-director Gregg Araki's Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy, following Totally Fucked Up and The Doom Generation. It chronicles a bizarre, drug fuelled day and night in the lives of a group of (strangely named) angst-ridden teenagers living in Los Angeles in the 90s and focuses in particular on Dark Smith (James Duval), a film student prone to witnessing alien abductions.

Based on the real-life experiences of Nikki Reed (who co-wrote the screenplay with writer-director Catherine Hardwicke), Thirteen follows Tracy Freeland (Evan Rachel Wood), a 13-year-old straight-A student whose life spirals out of control when she befriends Evie Zamora (Nikki Reed), a popular girl from school who introduces Tracy to a world of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll petty crime.

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