By the Wayside

Set in New York City in the sweltering summer, The Wackness tells the story of a troubled teenage drug dealer, who trades pot for therapy sessions with a drug-addled psychiatrist. Things get more complicated when he falls for one of his classmates, who just happens to be the doctor's daughter. This is a coming-of-age story about sex, d...

Runtime

1h 39m

Director

Jonathan Levine

Cast

Josh Peck, Ben Kingsley, Famke Janssen

In 1976, a teenage girl struggles to cope while living with her neurotic lower-middle-class family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.

Runtime

1h 31m

Director

Tamara Jenkins

Cast

Natasha Lyonne, Alan Arkin, Marisa Tomei

When David Greene receives a football scholarship to a prestigious prep school in the 1950s, he feels pressure to hide the fact that he is Jewish from his classmates and teachers, fearing that they may be anti-Semitic. He quickly becomes the big man on campus thanks to his football skills, but when his Jewish background is discovered, ...

Runtime

1h 46m

Director

Robert Mandel

Cast

Brendan Fraser, Matt Damon, Chris O'Donnell

Freed after a lengthy term in a juvenile detention center, convicted child killer Jack Burridge finds work as a deliveryman and begins dating co-worker Michelle. While out on the road one day, Jack notices a distressed child, and, after reuniting the girl with her family, becomes a local celebrity. But when a local newspaper unearths h...

Runtime

1h 46m

Director

John Crowley

Cast

Andrew Garfield, Katie Lyons, Peter Mullan

After the death of her husband, the mother of Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom begins to suffer from a mysterious illness. Aware that she is going to have to go into hospital she opens a bank account for the children, so that they can be financially self-sufficient and will be able to avoid being taken into care by the authorities. Unfortunate...

Runtime

1h 41m

Director

Andrew Birkin

Cast

Andrew Robertson, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alice Coulthard