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Post by topbilled on Dec 18, 2023 1:22:59 GMT
There are a lot of good ones in this vein...
BLACKBOARD JUNGLE (1955) high school-aged delinquents are in need of education.
TEENAGE REBEL (1956) Ginger Rogers is a successful mom out of touch with her defiant daughter.
BLUE DENIM (1959) about an unexpected teen pregnancy.
TAKE A GIANT STEP (1959) a black teen can't cope in a racist white environment.
SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS (1961) classic William Inge tale directed by Elia Kazan.
THE YOUNG SAVAGES (1961) a Puerto Rican kid is murdered and three white teens stand trial.
FAME (1980) concerning the trials and tribulations of young hopefuls...it spawned a TV series.
THE OUTSIDERS (1983) based on S.E. Hinton's novel.
DIRTY DANCING (1987) 17 year old Jennifer Grey comes of age at a Catskills resort.
SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL (1987) a tomboy deals with a strict social hierarchy in a San Fernando Valley school.
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Post by I Love Melvin on Dec 18, 2023 1:43:42 GMT
This is the one I actually remember seeing in a theater and it was pretty hot stuff for the time it was made. The focus was equally on the teens and the (adulterous) adults, but it was melodrama for sure.  |
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Post by topbilled on Dec 18, 2023 13:39:44 GMT
This is the one I actually remember seeing in a theater and it was pretty hot stuff for the time it was made. The focus was equally on the teens and the (adulterous) adults, but it was melodrama for sure. |
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Post by Fading Fast on Dec 18, 2023 15:34:53 GMT
My "controversial" add to this thread would be "Where the Boys Are." While it's often thought of as a "silly '60s beach movie," it much more of a late-teen/college student melodrama with sex being the driving theme. It'smuch more of a serious movie than "silly beach movie."
Another one, if we assume college kids are teens, is the precode "Age of Consent."
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Post by topbilled on Dec 18, 2023 16:16:57 GMT
When I composed a list at the beginning of the thread, I tried to think of teen melodramas from the 1940s but most of those seem pretty sugarcoated...like the Andy Hardy 'dramas' that ultimately become more comical, with his dilemmas inconsequential by the end of the movie.
Perhaps a better example is something like HITLER'S CHILDREN (1943) where Bonita Granville plays an American girl in Germany that has to deal with the Nazis who consider her a German.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler%27s_Children_(1943_film)
Plus for the life of me, I could not think of any teenaged movie melodramas from the 1970s, though I am sure there must be some. Maybe an example is RED SKY AT MORNING (1971) a period piece with Richard Thomas as an adolescent who must help his mother cope after his father dies in WWII.
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Post by Fading Fast on Dec 18, 2023 16:29:03 GMT
When I composed a list at the beginning of the thread, I tried to think of teen melodramas from the 1940s but most of those seem pretty sugarcoated...like the Andy Hardy 'dramas' that ultimately become more comical, with his dilemmas inconsequential by the end of the movie.
Perhaps a better example is something like HITLER'S CHILDREN (1943) where Bonita Granville plays an American girl in Germany that has to deal with the Nazis who consider her a German.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler%27s_Children_(1943_film)
Plus for the life of me, I could not think of any teenaged movie melodramas from the 1970s, though I am sure there must be some. Maybe an example is RED SKY AT MORNING (1971) a period piece with Richard Thomas as an adolescent who must help his mother cope after his father dies in WWII.
The characters in "Dear Ruth" are probably early twenties, so I guess that movie, which is really more comedy than melodrama anyway, wouldn't qualify.
Were the girls in 1980's "Little Darlings" teens - I think so - but technically that's a '80s movie; although, it feels '70s, which isn't surprising as styles don't change with the calendar page. |
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Post by topbilled on Dec 18, 2023 17:02:41 GMT
When I composed a list at the beginning of the thread, I tried to think of teen melodramas from the 1940s but most of those seem pretty sugarcoated...like the Andy Hardy 'dramas' that ultimately become more comical, with his dilemmas inconsequential by the end of the movie.
Perhaps a better example is something like HITLER'S CHILDREN (1943) where Bonita Granville plays an American girl in Germany that has to deal with the Nazis who consider her a German.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler%27s_Children_(1943_film)
Plus for the life of me, I could not think of any teenaged movie melodramas from the 1970s, though I am sure there must be some. Maybe an example is RED SKY AT MORNING (1971) a period piece with Richard Thomas as an adolescent who must help his mother cope after his father dies in WWII.
The characters in "Dear Ruth" are probably early twenties, so I guess that movie, which is really more comedy than melodrama anyway, wouldn't qualify.
Were the girls in 1980's "Little Darlings" teens - I think so - but technically that's a '80s movie; although, it feels '70s, which isn't surprising as styles don't change with the calendar page.
I haven't seen LITTLE DARLINGS in years. I'd forgotten about that film!
In my previous post I mentioned Richard Thomas and RED SKY AT MORNING. Two years earlier, he appeared in an independent film called LAST SUMMER (1969) which also featured Barbara Hershey and Catherine Burns. Burns' teen character gets raped in the movie, but she's listed as a supporting player. While the rape scene is a big deal, I think it's technically a subplot and not exactly the main focus of the story. |
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