1970’s

[9] A teenaged girl (Jenny Agutter) and her little brother (Luc Roeg) are stranded in the Australian Outback after their father begins shooting at them, catches the car on fire, and blows his brains out. They manage to survive for a few days, but ultimately come to rely on a young aborigine (David Gulpilil) who crosses their path. The boy is on ‘walkabout,’ a rite of …

[9] Gary Grimes stars as Hermie, a sensitive teenager spending his summer on Nantucket Island, idling away the hours reading comic books, watching movies, and wandering the beaches with his friends. But when he meets a kind, twenty-something newlywed named Dorothy (Jennifer O’Neill) who’s waiting for her husband to return from the battlefront, he becomes infatuated with her. While his friend Oscy (Jerry Houser) obsesses …

[8] A fifteen-year-old boy (John Moulder-Brown) begins working at a British bathhouse where a young woman (Jane Asher) goads his sexual awakening. The boy begins obsessing over the woman and her fiancee. He stalks them at night and tries to break them up. Once the boy and woman consumate their unhealthy relationship, things take an even darker turn. I found Deep End to be acompelling coming-of-age story …

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