I see many films, but don’t have time to review each one that I enjoy.
Here are some films with noteworthy performances from children and young adults. Listed below are both the movie and the actor/actress (s) involved, with more being added as they come.
Bee Season (2005) – Flora Cross
Thumbsucker (2005)- Lou Taylor Pucci
Surveillance (2008)- Ryan Simpkins
Transamerica (2005)- Kevin Zegers
The Runaways (2010)- Kristen Stewart & Dakota Fanning
Ordinary People (1980)- Timothy Hutton
Mother’s Boys (1994)- Luke Edwards
Water Lilies (2007)- Pauline Acquart, Louise Blachere & Adele Haenel
The Professional (1994)- Natalie Portman
Billy Elliot (2000)- Jamie Bell
An American Rhapsody (2001)- Kelly Endrész Bánlaki
Now & Then (1995)- Christina Ricci, Gaby Hoffmann, Thora Birch, Ashleigh Aston Moore
Blue Car (2002)- Agnes Bruckner, Regan Arnold
Maria Full of Grace (2004)- Catalina Sandino Moreno
Finn’s Girl (2007)- Maya Ritter
Mercury Rising (1998)- Miko Hughes
Harold & Maude (1971)- Bud Cort
Virgin Suicides (1999)- Entire Cast
White Oleander (2002)- Alison Lohman
Mean Creek (2004)- Entire Cast
Hard Candy (2005)- Ellen Page
Twelve & Holding (2005)- Conor Donovan, Jesse Camacho, Zoe Weizenbaum
In America (2002)- Sarah & Emma Bolger
The Devil’s Backbone (2001)- The Orphan Boys
Labyrinth (1986)- Jennifer Connelly
I’m Gonna Explode (2008)- Juan Pablo de Santiago, Maria Deschamps
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)- Ivana Baquero
Ghost World (2001)- Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson
Dare (2009)- Emmy Rossum
The Cure (1995)- Joseph Mazzello, Brad Renfro
Pay it Forward (2000)- Haley Joel Osment
Paranoid Park (2007)- Gabe Nevins
Taxi Driver (1976)- Jodie Foster
Thirteen (2003)- Evan Rachel Wood, Nikki Reed
Bastard out of Carolina (1996)- Jena Malone
Speak (2004)- Kristen Stewart
Total Eclipse (1995)- Leonardo DiCaprio