Coming of age.

The coming of age genre is a film genre of where the transition of childhood (adolescence) into adulthood. The coming of age drama acts out representations of real life situations that occur to teens, the transition from adolescence to adulthood happens to everyone there fore it's easy to make  a film about.

Coming of age films: 

. Clueless 

.the perks of being a wallflower 

.dead poets society

.boyhood

The protagonist follows a journey from childhood to adulthood by personal and mental development. Has a problem and finds a resolution.

Issues that are usually covered in the coming of age genre are:

• Drugs 
• Relationship breakdowns
• Death
• Self-esteem 
• alchol

The reason for this is that the teen age is when we come to realisation of controversiality and self image.

Coming of age movies are usually adaptations of books, for example The perks or being a wall flower and boyhood etc. The coming of age genre started to become popular in the 50's, which one of the popular coming of age movies was Grease, another coming of age movies that came out at that time was Rebal without a cause. 

Coming of age movies could be a hybrid beween coming of age and drama, comedy, romance etc.