Coming of age films are a favorite of mine.  There is a certain quality to this genre that reaches me unlike any other.   Children know blunt emotion at its simplest and most raw – happy, sad, angry, nervous – while adults attach more convoluted subcategories to these feelings.  Seeing kids experience these feelings on screen takes us back to our own childhoods to when we first felt them.  A good coming age film will remind us and make us feel those feelings again.

In Rob Reiner’s latest film “Flipped” (adapted from the book of the same name), Juli Baker and Bryce Loski describe their journey to and from first love with one another.  The uniqueness of the film is that each section of is replayed so that each character narrates their male and female point of view of the same scenario.  The effect provides an original take on the traditional romantic film.  What one character saw as love, the other was narrating as annoyance. When one character describes passion, the other sees crazy.