Tag Archives: prep school

The Covenant

IMDB Rating: 4.80
11683 votes

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In 1692, in the Ipswich Colony of Massachusetts, five families of powerful witches commit to a covenant of silence to protect themselves against the witch hunters, but one of the families transgress their pact and is banished from their lands. Along the centuries, the power and the covenant are transmitted through their descendants and when the eldest son is eighteen years old, he ascends to a higher power. However, the use of magic addicts and if used in excess, ages the warlock. In the present days, four wizards teenage friends are in high school and their leader Caleb Danvers is close to his eighteenth birthday and consequently to ascend. He has just met Sarah Wenham and they are dating, when the appearance of darkling and supernatural dreams haunt the group. Sooner they find an evil warlock, descendant of the fifth ancient family that wants to strip Caleb's power.
Actors
Caleb DanversSteven Strait
Chase CollinsSebastian Stan
Pogue ParryTaylor Kitsch
Also posted in 2006, Action, Horror, Thriller | Comments (0)

Dead Poets Society

IMDB Rating: 7.80
69947 votes

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Painfully shy Todd Anderson has been sent to the school where his popular older brother was valedictorian. His room-mate, Neil, although exceedingly bright and popular, is very much under the thumb of his overbearing father. The two, along with their other friends, meet Professor Keating, their new English teacher, who tells them of the Dead Poets Society, and encourages them to go against the status quo. Each, in their own way, does this, and are changed for life.
Actors
John KeatingRobin Williams
Neil PerryRobert Sean Leonard
Todd AndersonEthan Hawke
Also posted in 1989, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Rocket Science

IMDB Rating: 6.80
3142 votes

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Coming of age in Plainsboro, New Jersey. High school student Hal Hefner stutters. On the evening his parents stop arguing and separate, 43 miles away at the state tournament, his school's legendary debater, Ben Wekselbaum, goes blank mid-sentence, Ben's teammate Ginny Ryerson doesn't get a first-place trophy, and the world changes. That fall, to Hal's amazement, Ginny recruits him for the debate team, mentors him, and will be his partner. He still has his stutter, but he works hard and he falls in love with Ginny. On the day of the first debate of the season, the world changes again. From then until the day of the state tournament, Hal has a lot to sort out. Is love rocket science?
Actors
Hal HefnerReece Thompson
Abraham LincolnDionne Audain
Ginny RyersonAnna Kendrick
Also posted in 2007, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Cry_Wolf

IMDB Rating: 5.80
5836 votes

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Nobody believes a liar - even when they're telling the truth. When a young woman is found murdered, a group of local high school students decide to further scare their classmates by spreading online rumors that a serial killer called "The Wolf" is on the loose. By describing "The Wolf's" next victims, the students' game is to see how many people they can convince - and if anyone will uncover the lie. But when the described victims actually do start turning up dead, suddenly no one knows where the lies end and the truth begins. As someone or something begins hunting the students themselves, the game turns terrifyingly real.
Actors
OwenJulian Morris
DodgerLindy Booth
TomJared Padalecki
Also posted in 2005, Horror, Thriller | Comments (0)

Agent Cody Banks

IMDB Rating: 5.40
4676 votes

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Cody Banks (Frankie Muniz) is a shy common teenager, living with his mother, father and little brother in a suburban house. But he is also a very efficient undercover CIA agent. He is assigned by CIA director (Keith David), with the support of his instructor Ronica Miles (Angie Harmon), to date Natalie Connors (Hilary Duff) in order to be invited to her birthday party and get close and spy Natalie's father, Dr. Connors (Martin Donovan). Dr. Connors is a brilliant scientist, who has developed some sort of micro-robots with the intention of controlling oil leakage from tankers. However, the investors of the experiment intend to use the device as a powerful weapon.
Actors
Cody BanksFrankie Muniz
Natalie ConnorsHilary Duff
Ronica MilesAngie Harmon
Also posted in 2003, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Romance, Thriller | Comments (2)

Igby Goes Down

IMDB Rating: 7.10
12240 votes

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Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic seventeen year-old boy, is at war with the oppressive world of his East Coast "old money" family. With a schizophrenic father, a self-absorbed, distant mother, and a shark-like young Republican big brother, Igby figures there must be a better life out there, and he sets out to find it. After happily flunking out of several Prep Schools, Igby escapes into the bohemian underworld of Manhattan. His darkly comic trip—shared by a deviant cast of characters, including his terminally bored, part-time lover Sookie, his Godfather's trophy mistress Rachel, and smack-dealing performance artists Russel—veers from bizarre to tragic in Igby's ultimately noble attempt to keep himself from "going down."
Actors
Jason 'Igby' Slocumb, Jr.Kieran Culkin
Sookie SappersteinClaire Danes
D.H. BanesJeff Goldblum
Also posted in 2002, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

The Princess Diaries

IMDB Rating: 5.80
11514 votes

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A socially awkward but very bright 15-year-old girl being raised by a single mom discovers that she is the princess of a small European country because of the recent death of her long-absent father, who, unknown to her, was the crown prince of Genovia. She must make a choice between continuing the life of a San Francisco teen or stepping up to the throne. While Mia makes up her mind, she's pressed into taking princess lessons from her grandmother.
Actors
Queen Clarisse RenaldiJulie Andrews
Mia ThermopolisAnne Hathaway
JoeHector Elizondo
Also posted in 2001, Comedy, Family | Comments (9)

Scent of a Woman

IMDB Rating: 7.40
19364 votes

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Frank is a retired Lt Col in the US army. He's blind and impossible to get along with. Charlie is at school and is looking forward to going to university; to help pay for a trip home for Christmas, he agrees to look after Frank over thanksgiving. Frank's niece says this will be easy money, but she didn't reckon on Frank spending his thanksgiving in New York.
Actors
Lieutenant Colonel Frank SladeAl Pacino
Charlie SimmsChris O'Donnell
Mr. TraskJames Rebhorn
Also posted in 1992, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)
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