Movies like Rushmore
If Rushmore's mix of lone wolf, private school and theater play stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Rushmore's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Breakfast Club
1985 · Directed by John Hughes · 98 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: coming of age, teenager · Also comedy and drama
Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal. The disparate group includes rebel John, princess Claire, outcast Allison, brainy Brian and Andrew, the…
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Booksmart
2019 · Directed by Olivia Wilde · 102 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: coming of age, teenager
Two academic teenage superstars realize, on the eve of their high school graduation, that they should have worked less and played more.
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Dead Poets Society
1989 · Directed by Peter Weir · 129 min8.3
Why you'll like itShares: coming of age, teenager
At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern…
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The Edge of Seventeen
2016 · Directed by Kelly Fremon Craig · 105 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: coming of age · Also comedy and drama
Two high school girls are best friends until one dates the other's older brother, who is totally his sister's nemesis.
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American Beauty
1999 · Directed by Sam Mendes · 122 min8.0
Why you'll like itShares: coming of age, teenager · From the same decade (1990s)
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.
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The Squid and the Whale
2005 · Directed by Noah Baumbach · 81 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: coming of age · Also comedy and drama
Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.
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Noises Off...
1992 · Directed by Peter Bogdanovich · 103 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: theater play · From the same decade (1990s)
Hired to helm an Americanized take on a British play, director Lloyd Fellowes does his best to control an eccentric group of stage actors.