The kind to watch over and over

Rating: 10/10 (9 January 1999)

As someone who falls in love with A Separate Peace and the works of Thoreau and Emerson, I can't imagine a better movie. The simple albeit complexly emotional plot captures the teenage struggle throwing the viewer into fits of nostalgia while simultaneously confronting our present-day selves, unfulfilled and making us regret the day we never had a teacher who shouted at us to seize the day when we seemed young enough to actually do just that. If that weren't enough, the characters deal with the touchy subject of suicide and guilt and sacrifice and altruism vs. selfishness. Fabulous stuff.