A little bit of background

 The coming-of-age genre highlights the main characters confronting the main significant conflict, individual choice in their lives, or going to a significant acknowledgment about their future lives. These may incorporate movies depicting first loves, moving on high school, religious development, winding up in jail, and other critical occasions in a youngster's life.

The qualities related with Coming-of-Age motion pictures may incorporate some feeling of good duty that accompanies building up an attention to sentimental emotions. Many films help these qualities through supposed ordinary strides of adulthood. Humor is regularly used to manage the feeling of having more opportunity to settle on choices that accompany coming to adulthood, regardless of whether it's choices that turn out not to be all that thoroughly examined. Life lessons throughout experiences will in general be another sign of Coming-of-Age films, with a more youthful individual commonly taking in a significant lesson from a parent or other important older figure. At times, significant acknowledgement about existence comes from self-reflection that is simulated by committing errors and gaining from them or just captivating in a conversation that incorporates some kind of mindfulness.

In coming-of-age films, producers tend to circumstances and occasions that bear upon the youngster's introduction into new spaces of psychosocial experience. Producers try to display the adolescent's and post-adolescent adult experiences with the delights and risks of current life. Coming of age films usually have many voice overs of the protagonist of the film. This is mainly used in order to have a deeper understanding of the character’s feelings and thoughts in a deeper way. To close up, throughout these films, producers focus on the character creating his own identity as he is growing up and show his change throughout the film.

The coming of age films are most of the times marketed by making a great emphasis on the protagonist and his/her friends. This is demonstrated in films such as: The Breakfast Club, American Graffiti, Perks of Being a Wallflower, and many more. This genre, 99% of the time, has their main characters as teenagers. This, obviously, in order to make the characters relatable to the target audience, which is 12 to 20 years old, as the main purpose of the movie is to show the transition from childhood to adulthood. In addition, one of the messages that coming of age films try to convey throughout its marketing campaign is about embracing yourself. To close up, this genre also embraces to stay “loyal” to yourself, but at the same time grow as a person.

A great example of a coming of age film is Lady Bird. Lady Bird tells us the story of a teenager as strange as she can be at those ages, but with an extra touch of dreamy. His mind is a long way from home, with his sights set on the East Coast and college days. Answering and somewhat grumpy, she confronts the world around her with small acts of rebellion, such as adopting her own name, Lady Bird. The relationship with family and friends, of course, also has its traits of sympathetic madness. In particular, the train crash against his mother, a woman with arms to take, is a constant source of conflict. Friends, studies, encounters and misunderstandings with reality, make up the path of Lady Bird in her last months in high school, about to make the leap to the university stage. Lady Bird embraces the coming of age genre as it portrays some of the genre main conventions. Lady Bird shows the conventions such as moving on from high school, get a sweetheart, get another beau, contend with parents, apply to universities, make fake friends, lose friendships, revive those friendships, and many more. Lady Bird is all around planned yet ambiguously the organized content digs into growing up.

Another great example of a coming of age film is Big Time Adolescence. Big Time Adolescence is the story about Mo, a 16 year old kid living in suburbia whose closest companion turns out to be the charming 23 year old Zeke. Zeke used to be a boyfriend of his sister, Kate, when they were both in high school, and in spite of the fact that she left him since she understood that he didn't seek to a decent future, Mo admired constantly him, for him he is his more an older brother figure who consistently needed and in principle, thinks of him as his best friend. Nonetheless, this isn't disliked by Mo's parents, particularly his dad, as they see Zeke, who has dropped out of school, gotten back to live with his parents and scarcely found a new line of work at the nearby electronic store, as a terrible impact. Clearly Zeke is overall quite engaged when you converse with him and he generally discusses large plans, yet behind all that, in actuality the young fellow will just utilize Mo for his arrangements and will get him in serious problems. Big Time Adolescence embraces the coming of age genre as it is about a junior in high school trying to go through romance, parties, and his identity as a person. In addition, throughout the movie, how the character of the 16 year old, Mo, develops, he becomes more and more relatable for teenagers.

Another great examples of great coming of age films are: American Graffiti, Perks of Being a Wallflower, Eight Grade, and The Breakfast Club.