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Rushmore, Election, Heathers, Napoleon Dynamite, Breakfast Club, Dead Man`s Curve, etc etc etc. How come the Americans can make films (often with great success) set around school/college life and the British can`t or won`t (If, err.... )?
Just wondered... :-)

you mentioned one yourself..
If..

Exactly. And that was made nearly 40 years ago!

hey, we have grange hill...

I think you could say the same about a lot of genres (war, sci-fi, historical epics etc)

The simple fact is that the British film industry is much smaller than the USA and so less films get made.

There have been a few films about adolescence over the years though.
e.g. About A Boy, Anita & Me, Bend it like Beckham, Billy Elliot, Hope & Glory, Wish You Were Here, Quadrophenia, Gregory`s Girl

Granted, but of those you mention (and those I`ve seen!) only Gregory`s Girl (how could I have forgotten that one) is set mostly in a school. I don`t remember much, if any of Hope and Glory, Billy Elliot, Wish You Were Here, Quadrophenia, Beautiful Thing, etc being set in a school. Maybe that`s the difference, the Americans often (although obviosly not exclusively) examine adolescence through their school experiences and with the British it`s more about their life in `the outside world`....

Except of course for films about public school, we can do those no messin`!

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Goodbye Mr. Chips
Unman, Wittering and Zigo

Scum - okay so it`s not about a school as such, but it`s got young adults in it.


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And Please Sir, of course (while we`re scraping the barrel)!
And all at least 30 years old, so maybe it should be why don`t the British make contemporary films about school ANYMORE!