17 Again 2009  PG-13, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Burr Steers
Cast: Zac Efron, Leslie Mann, Thomas Lennon, Matthew Perry, Tyler Steelman, Allison Miller, Sterling Knight, Michelle Trachtenberg, Adam Gregory, Hunter Parrish, Mario Cassem, Katerina Graham, Tiya Sircar, Melissa Ordway, Melora Hardin
Twenty years after high-school basketball star Mike (Zac Efron) dropped his sport to marry his pregnant girlfriend Scarlet (Allison Miller), Mike's (now played by Matthew Perry) marriage to Scarlet (now played by Leslie Mann) is on the rocks. Mike is alienated from his children Alex and Maggie (Sterling Knight and Michelle Trachtenberg), and his job is not going well. Miraculously, Mike is transformed back to his teenage body and is enrolled in the same school that his children attend. Will Mike recapture his years missed when he dropped out of basketball, or will he decide to devote his time to helping his wife and children?
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Igby Goes Down 2002  R, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Burr Steers
Cast: Kieran Culkin, Claire Danes, Susan Sarandon, Jeff Goldblum, Ryan Phillippe, Bill Pullman, Amanda Peet, Jared Harris, Rory Culkin, Kathleen Gati, Peter Anthony Tambakis, Bill Irwin, Celia Weston, Elizabeth Jagger, Gannon Forrester
Raised by schizophrenic father Jason (Bill Pullman) and self-absorbed mother Mimi (Susan Sarandon), 17-year-old Jason "Igby" Slocumb Jr. (Kieran Culkin) has problems coping. He is foisted off on his godfather, D.H. Baines (Jeff Goldblum), who decides Igby will spend weekdays in NYC and weekends in the Hamptons. But events don't proceed as planned in this dark comedy about the problems Igby faces growing up as a member of a wealthy, East Coast family.
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 The Last Days of Disco 1998 R, 112 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Director: Whit Stillman
Cast: Chloe Sevigny, Kate Beckinsale, Mackenzie Astin, Chris Eigeman, Matt Keeslar, Robert Sean Leonard, Jennifer Beals, Edoardo Ballerini, Zachary Taylor, David Thornton, Matt Ross, Tara Subkoff, Burr Steers, Jaid Barrymore, Scott Beehner
Recent Hampshire College graduates Alice Kinnon (Chloe Sevigny) and Charlotte Pingress (Kate Beckinsale) spend their days working as editorial assistants, and their nights are spent at the disco where sex and drugs run rampant. But the disco is closing, and the insecurity of Alice and the self-absorption of Charlotte seem to epitomize the youth of their day: sheltered and parentally subsidized, but on the brink of new mature love and responsibility bringing a new meaning to their lives.
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| 1. 17 Again (2009)
2. Igby Goes Down (2002)
3. The Last Days of Disco (1998)
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