Youth in Revolt (2009)

90 min · Coming Of Age, Romantic Comedy, Teen Comedy Film, comedy drama, romantic comedy film

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2025-09 to 2026-08

Directors

Miguel Arteta

Cast

Michael Cera, Zach Galifianakis, Justin Long, Steve Buscemi, Portia Doubleday, Ray Liotta, Ari Graynor

The story

Shy teenager Nick Twisp lives with his mother, Estelle, and her boyfriend, Jerry, in Oakland, California. After selling a faulty car to a group of sailors, Jerry takes Estelle and Nick to a trailer park in Clearlake where Nick meets Sheeni Saunders, a young woman his age, interested in French culture and sharing Nick's musical taste. Despite her boyfriend, Trent Preston, they become romantically involved.

Catalogue themes and tags

1990s, California, Car Thief, Dark Side, Defloration, Diabolical Ego, Diary, Disrespect, Divorced Parents, Everyday Family Life, Existentialism, Familie, Fear of Women, First Time, Girls' Boarding School, Imagination, Insult, Intellectual, Intelligence, Jugendliche, Jugendschwarm, Junge Menschen, Liebeschaos, Love at First Sight, Love at Second Sight, Malice, Moustache, Personality Disorder, Poem, Poetry, Sarcasm, Schizophrenia, Schäden, Seelenverwandtschaft, Selbstbefriedigung, Sex Appeal, Sexual Frustration, Sexuelles Verlangen, Shyness, Snogging, Step Parents, Swear Word, Tough Guy, Trailer Park, Unrequited Love, Verbrecherin, Verbrennen, Wohnwagen, Wretch, Young Love, evil, pubertät, strange Family, verlieben, Romantic comedy, Sex comedy, Drama, Comedy, Black comedy, Romance Film, Teen

Genres

Coming Of Age, Romantic Comedy, Teen Comedy Film, comedy drama, romantic comedy film

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