04 August 2009

The Kids Still Aren’t Alright

Following The Kids Aren't Alright, here are three other films about troubled teenagers (possible SPOILERS within):

Set in Christchurch, New Zealand in the 1950s and based on the real-life 1954 Parker-Hulme murder case, Heavenly Creatures tells the story of Pauline Parker (Melanie Lynskey) and Juliet Hulme (Kate Winslet), two teenage girls whose intense, fantasy-based relationship leads them to commit murder after they learn they’re to be separated by their concerned parents, who feel their close relationship has become unhealthy.

Adapted from the play by James Bosley (who also wrote the screenplay), Fun is about friendship, love and murder as two troubled teenagers, Hillary (Renée Humphrey) and Bonnie (Alicia Witt), relate to a magazine reporter (William R. Moses) and a counsellor (Leslie Hope) the details of how on the day they met, they felt an instant connection and murdered an elderly woman "just for fun".

Based on the real-life murder of Bobby Kent in Florida in 1993 and adapted from the book Bully: A True Story Of High School Revenge by Jim Schutze, Bully follows Marty Puccio (Brad Renfro), Lisa Connelly (Rachel Miner) and Ali Willis (Bijou Phillips), three teenagers who, with the help of their friends and an inept "hitman" (Leo Fitzpatrick), plan to violently murder their friend who constantly torments and abuses them.

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