Undefended is posted every Friday. All FilmFisher writers are given a prompt and respond with a list of five items, none of which are explained or rationalized. This week… the top five coming-of-age films.
Kanaan Trotter
1. Life of Pi
2. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
3. The Goonies
4. Good Will Hunting
5. A River Runs Through It
Timothy Lawrence
1. Night of the Hunter
2. Bicycle Thieves
3. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
4. The 400 Blows
5. Pan’s Labyrinth
James Banks
1. The Sword in the Stone
2. Rushmore
3. The Last Picture Show
4. The Wizard of Oz
5. The Black Stallion
Sean Johnson
1. To Kill A Mockingbird
2. Rushmore
3. Star Wars: A New Hope
4. Stand By Me
5. Let the Right One In
Jon Paul
1. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
2. Ponette
3. Great Expectations (1998)
4. Dead Poet’s Society
5. The Sandlot
Christian Leithart
1. Mud
2. Spirited Away
3. Bambi
4. Bridge to Terabithia
5. Iron Man 3
Thomas Banks
1.Stand by Me
2.Cinema Paradiso
3.To Kill a Mockingbird
4.The Yearling
5.Finding Forester
Joshua Gibbs
1. Metropolitan
2. Shadow of a Doubt
3. Empire of the Sun
4. The Squid and the Whale
5. Kes
Brian Murnion
1. Forbidden Games
2. Good Morning (1959)
3. The 400 Blows
4. La promesse
5. Ivan’s Childhood
Justin Spencer
1. Cold Mountain
2. Man From Snowy River
3. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
4. The Sandlot
5. American Graffiti
