Coming of age movies in the same vein as My Girl and Now and Then?

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13 Going on 30
Clueless
A Walk to Remember
Legally Blonde

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Anonymous wrote:Watched (and re-watched!) a ton of movies over the past few years with my cousins and our girls. These were some of the ones they liked. Some are more mature than others.

Little Women (1994 and 2019)
The Man in the Moon
Dirty Dancing
Edge of Seventeen
Fly Away Home
Mermaids
Harriet the Spy (DS loves this too)
Thirteen
Lucas
Tall Girl and Tall Girl 2
Juno
13 going on 30
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

+1 to the bolded. A few of the listed movies are more sexual than I’m comfortable showing an 11-year-old. Sisterhood is a great movie (and book), but Blake Lively’s character sleeps with her soccer coach at summer camp. The emotional aftermath is portrayed well and you may find it beneficial for your child to see that.

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Anonymous wrote:Stand by me

"other than Stand By Me"

Stand by Me is great for any gender, but I do think it was better for a kid slightly older than 12.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why you wouldn’t watch Stand By Me because the main characters are boys? I have a DD and DS and they’ve both seen My Girl and liked. Books and movies don’t have gender. We need to stop acting like they do.

I get it, PP, but I also understand why a girl might want to watch movies made mostly for girls. Why aren’t you mad that Now and Then and Lady Bird are movies mostly made to relate to women/young women? It’s ok for a movie to be that sometimes.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why you wouldn’t watch Stand By Me because the main characters are boys? I have a DD and DS and they’ve both seen My Girl and liked. Books and movies don’t have gender. We need to stop acting like they do.

They absolutely do “have a gender.” If you don’t think boys are more into stereotypically boy movies and girls into girl movies (because they can relate to the characters of their own gender more intimately), you’re just being deliberately obtuse. And please don’t anyone parachute in with the “but I’m a girl and loved Stand by Me!”

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How to Make An American Quilt. I love this movie.

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Freaky Friday
Parent Trap
Clueless
Babysitters Club

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8th grade is my favorite, but it might be a little heavy for a 12 year old

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Anonymous wrote:The Man in the Moon (Reese Witherspoon's film debut)

I love this movie.

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Bridge to terebithia

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16 candles
Breakfast Club
Grease

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The way Way Back

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Spirited away, the animated film

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Anonymous wrote:Watched (and re-watched!) a ton of movies over the past few years with my cousins and our girls. These were some of the ones they liked. Some are more mature than others.

Little Women (1994 and 2019)
The Man in the Moon
Dirty Dancing
Edge of Seventeen
Fly Away Home
Mermaids
Harriet the Spy (DS loves this too)
Thirteen
Lucas
Tall Girl and Tall Girl 2
Juno
13 going on 30
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

I also thought they would love the John Hughes movies, which are pretty tame in retrospect, but they didn't really "get" them. Sentimental for me though.

Loved Lucas!!

Freaky Friday ?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Man in the Moon (Reese Witherspoon's film debut)

Amazing movie. This is your answer OP.

Came here to post this. LOVED this movie as a tween (also loved Stand By Me, fwiw).