What To Watch If You Love 'Lady Bird'
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A poignant rendition of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel, Little Women is an enchanting drama set in the backdrop of Civil War-era Massachusetts. The narrative revolves around the March sisters - spirited Jo (Saoirse Ronan), nurturing Meg (Emma Watson), shy Beth (Eliza Scanlen), and charming Amy (Florence Pugh) - as they navigate life's joys and sorrows. Helmed by Greta Gerwig, this 2019 adaptation won an Oscar for Best Costume Design. It skillfully portrays the sisters' individual pursuits of love, art, and purpose while highlighting their unyielding bond amidst societal expectations.- Category: Film (2019)
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It's the summer of 1983, and precocious 17-year-old Elio Perlman is spending the days with his family at their 17th-century villa in Lombardy, Italy. He soon meets Oliver, a handsome doctoral student who's working as an intern for Elio's father. Amid the sun-drenched splendor of their surroundings, Elio and Oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will alter their lives forever.- Category: Film (2017)
- Everyone knows that growing up is hard, and life is no easier for high school junior Nadine (Hailee Steinfeld), who is already at peak awkwardness when her all-star older brother Darian (Blake Jenner) starts dating her best friend Krista (Haley Lu Richardson). All at once, Nadine feels more alone than ever, until an unexpected friendship with a thoughtful teen (Hayden Szeto) gives her a glimmer of hope that things just might not be so terrible after all.
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In The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Charlie (Logan Lerman), an introverted high-school freshman, navigates through the trials and tribulations of adolescence. His world opens up when he befriends two seniors, Sam (Emma Watson) and Patrick (Ezra Miller). As they introduce him to the real world beyond textbooks and tests, Charlie grapples with first love and deep-seated secrets. A coming-of-age drama, this movie shines a spotlight on the joys and heartbreaks of growing up. Garnering critical acclaim, it won the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature.- Category: Film (2012)
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- The Virgin Suicides
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In The Virgin Suicides, an enigmatic tale unfolds in a quiet suburban neighborhood. The Lisbon sisters, Lux (Kirsten Dunst), Mary (A.J. Cook), Therese (Leslie Hayman), Bonnie (Chelse Swain), and Cecilia (Hanna Hall) are the focus of fascination for a group of neighborhood boys. Guided by the strict hand of their mother (Kathleen Turner) and passive presence of their father (James Woods), these girls navigate adolescence under a heavy shroud of repression and mystery. As the film meanders through this labyrinth of teenage turmoil, it subtly explores themes of isolation, longing, and the tragic consequences of suffocating innocence. This dramatic piece is directed by Sofia Coppola, who won Best First Feature at Independent Spirit Awards for this haunting debut.- Category: Film (1999)
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- Blue is the Warmest Color
- Wild Bunch
A French teen forms a deep emotional and sexual connection with an older art student she met in a lesbian bar.- Category: Film (2013)
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- The Half of It
A shy, introverted student helps the school jock woo a girl whom, secretly, they both want.- Category: Film (2020)
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In the 2009 drama film, An Education, a bright but naive schoolgirl Jenny Mellor (Carey Mulligan) finds her life taking an unexpected turn when she becomes enamored with a charming older man, David Goldman (Peter Sarsgaard). Set in 1960s suburban London, the movie unfolds as Jenny's traditional education is juxtaposed against the glamorous, yet morally ambiguous lifestyle that David introduces. Directed by Lone Scherfig and penned by Nick Hornby, the film earned three Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. The narrative explores themes of love, deception, and the price of maturity without sacrificing its undercurrent of societal critique.- Category: Film (2009)
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In the gritty drama Thirteen, Tracy Freeland (Evan Rachel Wood) is a promising student whose life spirals out of control after befriending the rebellious Evie Zamora (Nikki Reed). As Tracy plunges headfirst into a world of petty crime and substance abuse, her mother, Melanie (Holly Hunter), struggles to save her from self-destruction. Directed by Catherine Hardwicke, this stark portrayal of adolescence earned Holly Hunter an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Thirteen is a riveting exploration of teenage turmoil, peer pressure, and parental desperation.- Category: Film (2003)
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- Dazed and Confused
Dazed and Confused is a coming-of-age comedy film that paints an authentic picture of American teenage life in the 70s. Set in Austin, Texas, on the last day of high school in 1976, this Richard Linklater-directed film showcases a host of characters. Randall Pink Floyd (Jason London) is a star quarterback facing the dilemma of signing a no-drug pledge, while freshman Mitch Kramer (Wiley Wiggins) endures hazing rituals. The movie, punctuated by an iconic rock soundtrack, captures the carefree spirit and uncertainty that mark the threshold of adulthood. It's a nostalgic romp through teen angst, party culture, and youthful rebellion - all rolled into one unforgettable summer night.- Category: Film (1993)
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- Freaks and Geeks
The lives of nerdy teenagers in a Michigan high school circa 1980.- Category: TV Program
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In 1979 Santa Barbara, Calif., Dorothea Fields is a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie, at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion. Dorothea enlists the help of two younger women -- Abbie, a free-spirited punk artist living as a boarder in the Fields' home and Julie, a savvy and provocative teenage neighbor -- to help with Jamie's upbringing.- Category: Film (2016)
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In the 1930s, the Grand Budapest Hotel is a popular European ski resort, presided over by concierge Gustave H. (Ralph Fiennes). Zero, a junior lobby boy, becomes Gustave's friend and protege. Gustave prides himself on providing first-class service to the hotel's guests, including satisfying the sexual needs of the many elderly women who stay there. When one of Gustave's lovers dies mysteriously, Gustave finds himself the recipient of a priceless painting and the chief suspect in her murder.- Category: Film (2014)
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In this adaptation of the Mona Simpson novel, single mother Adele August (Susan Sarandon) is bad with money, and even worse when it comes to making decisions. Her straight-laced daughter, Ann (Natalie Portman), is a successful high school student with Ivy League aspirations. When Adele decides to pack up and move the two of them from the Midwest to Beverly Hills, Calif., to pursue her dreams of Hollywood success, Ann grows frustrated with her mother's irresponsible and impulsive ways.- Category: Film (1999)
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A woman endeavors to raise a daughter on her own.- Category: TV Program
The Best Gilmore Girls EpisodesSee all
- 1Last Week Fights, This Week Tights233 Votes
- 2They Shoot Gilmores, Don't They?260 Votes
- 3Raincoats and Recipes245 Votes
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In 1970s San Francisco, a precocious 15-year-old (Bel Powley) embarks on an enthusiastic sexual odyssey, beginning with her mother's current lover (Alexander Skarsgård).- Category: Film (2015)
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- Pariah
17Teenage Alike (Adepero Oduye) lives in Brooklyn's Fort Greene neighborhood with her parents (Charles Parnell, Kim Wayans) and younger sister (Sahra Mellesse). A lesbian, Alike quietly embraces her identity and is looking for her first lover, but she wonders how much she can truly confide in her family, especially with her parents' marriage already strained. When Alike's mother presses her to befriend a colleague's daughter (Aasha Davis), Alike finds the gal to be a pleasant companion.- Category: Film (2011)
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- Plan B
18After a regrettable sexual encounter, a straight-laced student and her best friend have 24 hours to hunt down a Plan B pill in South Dakota.- Category: Film (2021)
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- Girlhood
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Marieme joins an all-girl gang in the projects of Paris and is slowly turned out of her shell by her three sassy neighbors. As she falls further under their bravado and volatile energy, she begins making brave and foolish choices.- Category: Film (2014)
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20Wetlands
Wetlands is a 2013 German drama film and directed by David Wnendt. It is based on the 2008 novel of the same name by Charlotte Roche. The film premiered in International competition at the 2013 Locarno International Film Festival on August 11, 2013. The film later premiered in-competition in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 18, 2014. After its premiere at Sundance Film Festival, Strand Releasing acquired the US distribution right of the film.- Category: Film
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21High school students navigate drugs, sex, identity, trauma, social media, love and friendship.- Category: TV Program
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- Frances Ha
Frances (Greta Gerwig) goes from apartment to apartment in Brooklyn as she looks for a job and a stable partner.- Category: Film (2012)
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Curves on a blossoming young woman can be sexy, but not if you are told you have too many of them. "Real Women Have Curves" is a humorous and warmhearted look at a Mexican-American teenage girl coming of age in a boiling cauldron of cultural expectations, class constrictions, family duty, and her own personal aspirations.- Category: Film (2002)
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- Pretty in Pink
Andie (Molly Ringwald) is an outcast at her Chicago high school, hanging out either with her older boss (Annie Potts), who owns the record store where she works, or her quirky classmate Duckie (Jon Cryer), who has a crush on her. When one of the rich and popular kids at school, Blane (Andrew McCarthy), asks Andie out, it seems too good to be true. As Andie starts falling for Blane, she begins to realizes that dating someone from a different social sphere is not easy.- Category: Film (1986)
20 Coming-Of-Age Classics Like 'Pretty In Pink'See all- 1Clueless31 Votes
- 210 Things I Hate About You30 Votes
- 3Valley Girl19 Votes
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A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional 20th-century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in "The French Dispatch."- Category: Film (2021)
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Eighth Grade is a coming-of-age drama, directed by the comedian Bo Burnham. The film's central character is Kayla Day (Elsie Fisher), a socially awkward eighth-grader trying to navigate the last week of her disastrous middle school experience. Dealing with themes like social media anxiety and teenage insecurity, the narrative unfolds in a suburban setting. Kayla's father, Mark Day (Josh Hamilton), struggles to connect with his daughter amidst her adolescent turmoil. Garnering critical acclaim for its realistic portrayal of adolescence, Eighth Grade won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay.- Category: Film (2018)
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- Netflix
A coming-of-age comedy about four street-savvy friends navigating their way through high school.- Category: TV Program
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- Palo Alto
A lack of parental guidance encourages teens in an affluent California town to rebel with substance abuse and casual sex.- Category: Film (2013)
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29Young Irish immigrant Eilis Lace (Saoirse Ronan) navigates her way through 1950s Brooklyn. Lured by the promise of America, Eilis departs Ireland and the comfort of her mother's home for the shores of New York City. The initial shackles of homesickness quickly diminish as a fresh romance sweeps Eilis into the intoxicating charm of love. But soon, her past disrupts her new vivacity, and Eilis must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.- Category: Film (2015)
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Girlfriends is a 1978 comedy-drama film directed by Claudia Weill and written by Vicki Polon.- Category: Film
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31A teenager gains notoriety after an accident.- Category: TV Program
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- Liberal Arts
A New York college adviser (Josh Radnor) becomes involved with a student (Elizabeth Olsen) when he returns to his alma mater in Ohio for a favorite professor's (Richard Jenkins) retirement party.- Category: Film (2012)
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- Booksmart
Academic overachievers Amy and Molly thought keeping their noses to the grindstone gave them a leg up on their high school peers. But on the eve of graduation, the best friends suddenly realize that they may have missed out on the special moments of their teenage years. Determined to make up for lost time, the girls decide to cram four years of not-to-be missed fun into one night -- a chaotic adventure that no amount of book smarts could prepare them for.- Category: Film (2019)
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34Comics Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle play versions of themselves as 13-year-old outcasts.- Category: TV Program
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A college freshman (Lola Kirke) cures her disappointment and loneliness by allowing herself to be pulled into the wacky schemes of her future stepsister (Greta Gerwig).- Category: Film (2015)
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- Skate Kitchen
- A24
Skate Kitchen is a 2018 American drama film directed by Crystal Moselle. A teenaged skateboarder (Rachelle Vinberg) makes friends with a bunch of other skateboarding girls in New York City.- Category: Film (2018)
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37Rebellious, quick-witted Erica Vandross is a 17-year-old firecracker living with her single mom, Laurie, and her mom's new boyfriend, Bob, in L.A.'s San Fernando Valley. When Bob's mentally unbalanced son, Luke, arrives from rehab to live with the family, Erica finds her domestic and personal life overwhelmed. With Luke and her sidekicks Kala and Claudine in tow, Erica acts out by exposing a high school teacher's dark secret.- Category: Film (2017)
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- On Chesil Beach
- Lionsgate
On Chesil Beach is a 2017 British drama film directed by Dominic Cooke, based on the book by Ian McEwan. Young spouses Florence (Saoirse Ronan) and Edward (Billy Howle) destroy their marriage because of fear of intimate relations.- Category: Film (2018)
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39When a renowned architecture scholar falls suddenly ill during a speaking tour, his son Jin finds himself stranded in Columbus, Ind., a small Midwestern city celebrated for its many significant modernist buildings. Jin strikes up a friendship with Casey, a young architecture enthusiast who works at the local library. As their intimacy develops, Jin and Casey explore both the town and their own conflicted emotions.- Category: Film (2017)
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Star (Sasha Lane), an adolescent girl from a troubled home, runs away with a traveling sales crew that drives across the American Midwest selling subscriptions door-to-door. Finding her feet in this gang of teenagers, one of whom is Jake (Shia LaBeouf), she soon gets into the group's lifestyle of hard-partying nights, law-bending days and young love.- Category: Film (2016)
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Young and shy Quentin (Nat Wolff) is in for the night of his life when Margo (Cara Delevingne), the most popular student in high school, recruits him to help her play mischievous pranks on the friends who betrayed her. The next day, however, the mysterious Margo is nowhere to be found. With help from a few buddies and some cryptic clues that she left behind, Quentin embarks on an obsessive mission to find the girl who stole his heart and made him feel truly alive.- Category: Film (2015)
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In Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Greg Gaines (Thomas Mann), an awkward high school senior, spends his time making parody films with his co-worker Earl (RJ Cyler). His life takes a dramatic turn when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel Kushner (Olivia Cooke), a classmate who has been diagnosed with leukemia. As their bond deepens, Greg's outlook on life shifts drastically. This movie blends drama, comedy, and tragedy in a poignant tale of friendship, growth, and the stark realities of life. It won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.- Category: Film (2015)
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Unicorn Store is a 2019 comedy film directed and co-produced by Brie Larson. Kit (Brie Larson) is a failed artist who moves back in with her parents and takes a job up as an office worker, then one day, she receives a mysterious letter from an unnamed salesman (Samuel L. Jackson) who invites her to "The Store", a strange indeterminate place that sells "what you need."- Category: Film (2019)
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44Turn Me On, Dammit!
Turn Me On, Dammit! (aka Få meg på, for faen!) is a 2011 Norwegian coming-of-age comedy film directed by Jannicke Systad Jacobsen. It is based on Olaug Nilssen’s novel of the same name. Set in Skoddeheimen, a fictional small town in western Norway, the film is about Alma (Helene Bergsholm), a 15-year-old girl and her sexual awakening.- Category: Film
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Accompanied by her closeted gay buddy (Jeremy Dozier), a promiscuous teenager (Juno Temple) sets out to find her long-absent father.- Category: Film (2010)
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Oliver (Craig Roberts) is a Welsh teen who has some things on his mind. First is losing his virginity before his 16th birthday. He sets out to woo his feisty classmate Jordana (Yasmin Paige). Then Oliver focuses on holding his family together. His father (Noah Taylor), a depressed marine biologist, seems unequal to the task of preventing Oliver's mother (Sally Hawkins) from succumbing to the dubious charms of a spiritual guru (Paddy Considine) from down the road.- Category: Film (2010)
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Romantic complications ensue when a student poses as her twin brother and replaces him at his boarding school.- Category: Film (2006)
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Four teenagers band together against an unknown foe who threatens to expose their secrets.- Category: TV Program
The Best Pretty Little Liars CharactersSee all- 1Hanna Marin599 Votes
- 2Spencer Hastings610 Votes
- 3Mona Vanderwaal496 Votes
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After graduating from film school, Aura (Lena Dunham) returns to New York to live with her photographer mother, Siri (Laurie Simmons), and her sister, Nadine (Grace Dunham), who has just finished high school. Aura is directionless and wonders where to go next in her career and her life. She takes a job in a restaurant and tries unsuccessfully to develop relationships with men, including Keith (David Call), a chef where she works, and cult Internet star Jed (Alex Karpovsky).- Category: Film (2010)
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George (Freddie Highmore) is a senior at a posh Manhattan prep school, but his disaffected attitude leaves little room for toeing the line. He'd rather doodle and read philosophy, and he strenuously avoids his parents (Rita Wilson, Sam Robards) whenever possible. Unfortunately, George's attitude is endangering his chances of graduating. Then he meets Sally (Emma Roberts). George finds himself falling in love with her, but an older artist (Michael Angarano) adds a complication to the mix.- Category: Film (2011)
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51In the cleverly comedic film Easy A, Emma Stone stars as Olive Penderghast, a high school student who finds herself tangled in a web of rumors and half-truths. After a small lie about losing her virginity gets out, she sees her life paralleling Hester Prynne's from The Scarlet Letter, which she is studying in school -- until she decides to use the rumor mill to advance her social and financial standing. Penn Badgley, Amanda Bynes, and Thomas Haden Church co-star in this engaging tale that takes a humorous look at the serious subject of reputation and the rapid spread of gossip in a digital era.- Category: Film (2010)
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In Can't Buy Me Love, Ronald Miller (Patrick Dempsey) is a high school nerd yearning for popularity. Cindy Mancini (Amanda Peterson), the school's cheerleader queen, unexpectedly becomes his ticket to the in-crowd. When her mother's expensive outfit gets ruined, desperate Cindy agrees to Ronald's proposition: he will pay for the dress if she pretends to be his girlfriend. As they navigate through teenage hierarchies and social expectations, this 80s teen comedy-drama explores themes of acceptance, authenticity, and love beyond superficiality. The movie boasts engaging performances from its leads and offers a charmingly nostalgic trip back to high school life in the Reagan era.- Category: Film (1987)
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53Jezebel is a 2019 semi-autobiographical drama film directed by Numa Perrier. A vulnerable young woman becomes a webcam model like her sister after moving to Las Vegas to live with her family, but her growing popularity tests their bond.- Category: Film (2019)
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- Unpregnant
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Unpregnant is a 2020 American female buddy road film written and directed by Rachel Lee Goldenberg, based on the novel by Ted Caplan and Jenni Hendriks. Pregnant Missouri teenager (Haley Lu Richardson) discovers she can't get an abortion in her home state and convinces a friend (Barbie Ferreira) to accompany her on a road trip with her to Albuquerque, New Mexico.- Category: Film (2020)
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Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller), a failed musician now making a living as a carpenter in New York, returns to Los Angeles to house-sit for his brother (Chris Messina). He is stranded there -- since he doesn't drive -- until his brother's assistant, Florence (Greta Gerwig), comes to his rescue. She is as much a lost soul as he is, and as the pair begin spending more time together, they form a significant connection -- giving Roger a much-needed reason to be happy.- Category: Film (2010)
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- Master of None
The personal and professional life of an actor in New York who has trouble making decisions.- Category: TV Program
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- He's All That
An influencer who specializes in makeovers bets that she can transform an unpopular classmate into a prom king.- Category: Film (2021)
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