The Map Reader (2008)
ジャンル : ドラマ
上映時間 : 1時間 30分
演出 : Harold Brodie
シノプシス
Small-town New Zealand comedy-drama about Michael (Jordan Selwyn) - a 16-year-old whose passion for maps helps him escape his ordinary life and enjoy a state of isolation from those around him. But there are three women he can’t shut out – his single mother Amelia, a blind 20-year-old called Mary and Alison , a friend whose ‘grace betrays darker secrets’ apparently.
スティーヴン・チョボスキーによるベストセラー小説を、ローガン・ラーマン主演で映像化した青春映画。陽気でまばゆい兄妹と出会い、初めての友情と恋を知った高校生に降りかかる悲喜劇をセンチメンタルに描く。
Steven spends his school days longing for all-star athlete John. But John has a gorgeous girlfriend, and Steven is still in the closet about being gay. The only one who knows the teenager's secret is his friend Linda. After a curious run-in with John in a public restroom, Steven starts to wonder if the jock is straight after all. When they start a romance, it threatens to expose the truth about both of them.
高校生のサイモン(ニック・ロビンソン)は、ゲイであることをカミングアウトするか迷っていた。ある日サイモンは、ブルーと名乗る匿名のゲイが学校にいることを知る。ブルーとメールで連絡を取り合うようになったサイモンだったが、そのメール履歴を見た同級生にサイモンの女友達との恋の橋渡しをしろと脅されてしまう。
1983年夏、北イタリアの避暑地で家族と過ごす17歳のエリオは、大学教授の父が招待した年上の大学院生オリヴァーと出会う。一緒に自転車で散策したり泳いだり、読書したり音楽を聴いたりするうちに、エリオはオリヴァーに恋心を抱く。やがてその思いは通じるが、夏の終わりが近づくにつれてオリヴァーが避暑地を去る日が近くなる。
Pim lives in a run-down house in a dead-end street somewhere on the Flanders coast, together with his mother Yvette Bulteel. Life here smells of cold French fries, cheap cigarettes, vermouth and stale beer. As a kid, Pim dreams of a better life, imagining princesses and beauty queens. But when Pim turns sixteen, he begins dreaming of Gino, the handsome boy next door, instead.
Isolated on a remote property, 16-year-old Claudia finds her world transformed when a spirited girl named Grace wanders into her garden.
Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school — the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year — before she begins high school.
マイアミの貧困地域で、麻薬を常習している母親ポーラと暮らす少年シャロン。学校ではチビと呼ばれていじめられ、母親からは育児放棄されている彼は、何かと面倒を見てくれる麻薬ディーラーのホアンとその妻、唯一の友人のケビンだけが心の支えだった。そんな中、シャロンは同性のケビンを好きになる。そのことを誰にも言わなかった。
Forced to give up his dreams of art school, Zach works dead-end jobs to support his sister and her son. Questioning his life, he paints, surfs and hangs out with his best friend, Gabe. When Gabe's older brother returns home for the summer, Zach suddenly finds himself drawn into a relationship he didn't expect.
Two high school girls are best friends until one dates the other's older brother, who is totally his sister's nemesis.
アメリカの田舎町。牧師の父と母のひとり息子ジャレッドは、あるきっかけから自分が同性愛者であることに気づく。戸惑った両親は矯正セラピーへの参加を勧めたが、それは驚くべきプログラム内容だった。自らを偽って生きることを強いる施設に疑問と憤りを感じ、ジャレッドは遂にある行動を起こす…。
Pennsylvania, 1993. After getting caught with another girl, teenager Cameron Post is sent to a conversion therapy center run by the strict Dr. Lydia Marsh and her brother, Reverend Rick, whose treatment consists in repenting for feeling “same sex attraction.” Cameron befriends fellow sinners Jane and Adam, thus creating a new family to deal with the surrounding intolerance.
Alice, a young innocent Catholic girl, is tempted into masturbating after an AOL chat suddenly turns sexual, however is conflicted as the act would be considered a sin.
The story of Nathan, a young teenager who tries to flourish in a romantic relationship with neighbour Roy. The two young men will have to face the brutal reality of the rural south of the United States in the late 1970s.
A remote fishing village in Iceland. Teenage boys Thor and Christian experience a turbulent summer as one tries to win the heart of a girl while the other discovers new feelings toward his best friend. When summer ends and the harsh nature of Iceland takes back its rights, it's time to leave the playground and face adulthood.
アメフト男子に頼まれて、ラブレターを代筆することになった成績優秀なエリー。お陰で彼との友情は芽生えたけれど、彼と同じ女の子が好きな心の内はかなり複雑...。
1960年代の保守的な家庭で、5人兄弟の4男として育ったザック。「特別な子」と呼ばれた彼は、軍で働き音楽を愛する父親と過保護気味の母親、それぞれ文武に秀でた兄2人、問題だらけの次男を観察しながら幼少期を過ごす。やがて思春期に足を踏み入れる1970年代。ザックは同性に惹かれ始めた自らのアイデンティティと、男らしくあれという父親の価値観の間でもがくようになる。
大陸からの移住組の一家がこうむる圧力は、さらに露骨なものとなって少年スーを巻き込んでいく。彼の恋した少女ミンは、彼らのボスの情婦という噂がある。そのボスは、敵グループのボスと一騎討ちの最中、車にはねられて死んでしまう。やがてスーはミンとの交際を注意され、怒って中学を退学する。だがミンは、スーの親友で軍人の息子マーと付き合いはじめていた……。
1984, Sandusky, Ohio. A naive 17-year-old navigates heartbreak and self-expression as he explores his sexuality.
In a decaying rural community in Southern Ontario, Evan, an isolated, narrow-minded teen starts a new job at a run down, decrepit bait shop that is being primed to be sold as land for a sub-division. Upon arriving for his first shift, Evan discovers that his supervisor is the pink haired, outspoken Ross. Through their tedious job the two slowly grow closer, and Evan happens upon Ross' rich but strenuous inner world, involving himself, his sister, and the shadowy figure of his boss' ultra macho son. As a result, Evan's worldview and biases are challenged as he navigates the cataclysmic changes happening in his small town.