Adventureland

A hugely enjoyable blend of humor and agony that captures the confused, painful, but open-ended state of late adolescence.

                                      
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        Adventureland: Bastards of Young
    
Chris Barsanti

        08 Apr 2009
    
Reviews
    
        Adventureland
    
Renée Scolaro Mora

        03 Apr 2009
    
Film
    
        The Music of Adventureland (stream)
    
Thomas Britt

        24 Mar 2009

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