Comments on: TV shows or movies that depicts teens having romantic relationships with adults?

Question: TV shows or movies that depicts teens having romantic relationships with adults?

lrnarabic — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 01:34:06 -0800

I'm doing research for a book and I'm looking for tv shows or movies that depicts teens having relationships with adults. I have a partial list that includes: PRETTY LITTLE LIARS, ONE TREE HILL, CALIFORNICATION, BORED TO DEATH, and PINEAPPLE EXPRESS. I'm also looking for examples of teens talking about sodomy e.g. NOT ANOTHER TEEN MOVIE and National Lampoon's PLEDGE THIS. Thanks!

By: anthropomorphic

anthropomorphic — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 01:48:47 -0800

teens + adults:
dawson's creek (pacey + english teacher)
buffy (buffy and angel. not sure if centuries old vampire counts as adult)
hawthoRNe (jada's daughter + some dude at the hospital)

By: Biru

Biru — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 02:02:26 -0800

Kids
Thirteen

By: hurdy gurdy girl

hurdy gurdy girl — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 02:03:42 -0800

Swingtown--the teen daughter (Laurie) has a relationship with her summer school teacher (Doug).

By: alchemist

alchemist — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 02:40:23 -0800

American Beauty
Lolita
Leon
Desperate Housewives
Weird Science

By: djgh

djgh — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 02:47:50 -0800

OC - Luke and Marissa's mother

By: Rhomboid

Rhomboid — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 02:50:39 -0800

The first thing that comes to mind is Hard Candy.

On Damages, Patty Hewes' son who has just graduated high school has a relationship with a much older woman.

Caprica has a rather unique take on a teen girl dating an older man through the guise of virtual reality.

The Vampire Diaries is another like Buffy where an underage girl is in a relationship with a much older man who gets away with it because he ostensibly looks like a teen himself -- although this is one of those shows where everyone is 22 playing 16 so I guess the whole concept is a little iffy. See also, True Blood.

By: nevercalm

nevercalm — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 02:53:48 -0800

"Kids" is brutal, but it was the first thing that came to my mind, too. Anything Larry Clark, probably.

By: Margalo Epps

Margalo Epps — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:48:55 -0800

Glee has a high school boy sleeping with many moms and bored housewives (he has a pool cleaning service, which he makes good use of to meet older women).

And I do think the previously mentioned Buffy the Vampire Slayer works, because the age difference does come up frequently in their relationship (and even appearance wise, he seems to be mid-twenties, which is not the age to be dating a fifteen year old).

By: Harald74

Harald74 — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:55:18 -0800

Harold and Maude (1971)

From IMDB:

The self-destructive and needy wealthy teenager Harold is obsessed by death and spends his leisure time attending funerals, watching the demolishing of buildings, visiting junkyards, simulating suicides trying to get attention from his indifferent, snobbish and egocentric mother, and having sessions with his psychologist. When Harold meets the anarchist seventy-nine-year-old Maude at a funeral, they become friends and the old lady discloses other perspectives of the cycle of life for him. Meanwhile, his mother enlists him in a dating service and tries to force Harold to join the army. On the day of Maude's eightieth birthday, Harold proposes to her but he finds the truth about life at the end of hers. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

By: dunadan17

dunadan17 — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:01:30 -0800

In "Manhattan," Woody Allen dates a 17-year-old.

By: dbiedny

dbiedny — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:04:49 -0800

River's Edge.

By: PercyByssheShelley

PercyByssheShelley — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:11:05 -0800

Gavin & Stacey features a nearly 30 year old man dating a 17 year old. It may not suit your purpose- the teenage girl is an unseen character, so her perspective is completely absent.

By: EmpressCallipygos

EmpressCallipygos — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:17:39 -0800

NO NEED TO SHOUT. It's bad manners, ya know.

lrnarabic wasn't shouting. Rendering titles in CAPITAL LETTERS is an accepted practice when you don't have access to (or don't think you have access to) italics.

To the topic at hand: There's the obvious Lolita.

By: Johnny Assay

Johnny Assay — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:45:14 -0800

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (though whether Scott can be considered to be an "adult" for much of the movie is questionable.)

By: haplesschild

haplesschild — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:52:32 -0800

Y Tu mama tabien
An Education
Clueless
Mysterious Skin

By: haplesschild

haplesschild — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:53:30 -0800

^That would be tambien, not tabien, sorry

By: pecanpies

pecanpies — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:54:58 -0800

An Education

By: fuse theorem

fuse theorem — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:53:33 -0800

Storytelling, although the teen in question is a college student. This is most definitely not a mainstream film.

By: puritycontrol

puritycontrol — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:54:39 -0800

In Boston Public, one of the teachers has an affair with a young lady he later finds out is one of the students at his school.

By: Bromius

Bromius — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:00:26 -0800

The Last Picture Show, book and film.

By: chesty_a_arthur

chesty_a_arthur — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:03:47 -0800

Election.
American Pie (OK, might stretch the definition of relationship...)

By: emumimic

emumimic — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:22:59 -0800

Weeds (season 4, I believe).
Life as a House
In the first season of Felicity, Elena has an affair with her professor; she would be an adult, though, but only 18 or 19 so technically a teen.

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:26:24 -0800

In an early season of "Gossip Girl" (season 2, perhaps?), Nate had a relationship with an older lady.

I hear there's a camp counselor/camp attendee relationship in the new show "Huge".

By: komara

komara — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:41:34 -0800

Thinking that many of John Irving's books feature young men having their first sexual experience with older women, I went looking for those that have been turned into movies, and found The Door In The Floor.

By: planetkyoto

planetkyoto — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:42:25 -0800

I would have though Summer of '42 would have been one of the first responses.

By: jfwlucy

jfwlucy — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:46:25 -0800

Fast Times At Ridgemont High

The Phantom of the Opera (implied)

Roman Polanski's home movies?

By: schmod

schmod — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:51:43 -0800

L.I.E.

By: Adridne

Adridne — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:01:35 -0800

Veronica Mars features a number of teen/adult relationships, with varying degrees of dysfunction.

By: almostmanda

almostmanda — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:03:06 -0800

There's a gym coach/student relationship (sort of) in Mean Girls

By: Rumple

Rumple — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:03:57 -0800

Ghost World
The Man Who Wasn't There
Taxi Driver (sort of)

By: dlugoczaj

dlugoczaj — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:42:47 -0800

Blue Car. Good, complex movie about a teacher/student relationship.

By: analog

analog — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:57:08 -0800

Lawn Dogs is about a relationship between a girl and man that others think is scandalous, but really isn't... (interesting factoid: Mischa Barton is something like 10 or 11 years old in this film)

By: Sarosmith

Sarosmith — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 08:00:08 -0800

Paper man

By: slyboots421

slyboots421 — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 08:17:20 -0800

"Beautiful Girls" - Timothy Hutton's character is mooning over a 13-year-old Natalie Portman, who lives next door. It's never inappropriate, but she unwittingly opens his eyes to how much he needs to grow up.

By: martinX's bellbottoms

martinX's bellbottoms — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 08:52:08 -0800

Life as you know it was a ridiculous teen drama on ABC that featured a student and a teacher in a romantic relationship.

By: Joe Beese

Joe Beese — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:34:17 -0800

Lovely and Amazing
Tadpole

By: soelo

soelo — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:58:19 -0800

Wild Things with Matt Dillon, Neve Campbell and Denise Richards.

By: MuffinMan

MuffinMan — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:46:31 -0800

Weird Science

By: karminai

karminai — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:56:25 -0800

Paris goes out with a guy in his fifties in Gilmore Girls.

By: Lieber Frau

Lieber Frau — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:25:22 -0800

The Reader.

By: Lieber Frau

Lieber Frau — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:28:52 -0800

Apologies for the double post, but I forgot Notes on a Scandal.

By: bluedaisy

bluedaisy — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:37:25 -0800

Do you mean actual relationships or just sex? Because one of the American Pie movies (horrified to admit I know this) has the guy in love with Stifler's mom finally having sex with Stifler's mom.

Also, Big Love, the HBO TV show, in season two maybe, includes the prophet being married to a young teen girl.

If people are counting Buffy, you should probably include the Twilight series, in which Bella is 17 and Edward is 100 years old or something.

Various films based on Amy Fisher.

By: Phalene

Phalene — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:11:42 -0800

Two movies about teen/adult relationships and pathos: Fishbowl An Education. They both came out last year.

By: Phalene

Phalene — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:11:57 -0800

^Fishbowl & An Education

By: lantius

lantius — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:07:41 -0800

The Adults in the Room is an interesting example of this, dealing not only with the narrative of the director's teenaged relationship with an older man, but also how that relationship has affected him as an adult and the process of making the movie-within-the-movie.

By: Ideefixe

Ideefixe — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:29:23 -0800

Does Stacey's Mom count?

By: lrnarabic

lrnarabic — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:54:38 -0800

Wow, thanks so much to everyone for the responses! This is extremely helpful! I can't express how thankful I am. I'm so excited about writing this book. Do I really have to do the [mark as best answer]? Thanks again and keep them coming!

By: mippy

mippy — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:09:13 -0800

Soaps are a good place - both Coronation Street and EastEnders had storylines on this in recent times.

By: kbar1

kbar1 — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 23:22:16 -0800

Poison Ivy had Drew Barrymore's ~16 year old character seducing her friend's father (Tom Skerritt). Ick.