
The Dirties
The line between reality and fiction starts to blur when two best friends start making a movie about getting revenge on bullies.
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1989★ 7.3
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2001★ 6.7
A group of teenagers in South Florida enact a murder plot against their mutual bully, Bobby, who has emotionally, physically, and sexually abused them for years.

21 Jump Street
2012★ 6.9
When cops Schmidt and Jenko join the secret Jump Street unit, they use their youthful appearances to go undercover as high school students. They trade in their guns and badges for backpacks, and set out to shut down a dangerous drug ring. But, as time goes on, Schmidt and Jenko discover that high school is nothing like it was just a few years earlier -- and, what's more, they must again confront the teenage terror and anxiety they thought they had left behind.

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A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.

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Ghost World
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10 Years
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A group of friends reunite ten years after their high-school graduation.

Crimes and Misdemeanors
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A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murder; and a frustrated documentary filmmaker woos an attractive television producer while making a film about her insufferably self-centered boss.

The Kings of Summer
2013★ 7.0
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