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- A 15-year-old girl and her trials and tribulations of being a teenager and dealing with friends, guys, parents, and school.
- Despite her husband's doubts, a woman reaches out to her dead daughter with a psychiatrist's help.
- Seventeen year old Steve Novak has it all. But it's not enough. As a result, he involves himself with an impoverished black family and sells his convertible to help them out.
- A modernized, Americanized version of the story of the juggler who performs before the statue of the Virgin Mary.
- Eddie has dropped out of school and has been hanging out at the beach, drinking, smoking marijuana with his pals. He sees no reason to build a future for himself because he feels it's all going to be destroyed in a nuclear war anyway. One day he gets caught in a riptide and is swept out to sea. He's picked up by a Japanese fisherman and his 17-year old granddaughter. The fisherman is an old man and a survivor of Hiroshima who has seen a lot in his life. Eddie starts to work for him. Living and working with them, Eddie is forced to reexamine his beliefs and consider if life is worth striving for.
- Tommy just bought his first car with his own money. He enjoys driving it fast regardless of the speed limit. He ignores several warnings and not even a speeding ticket can change his way of driving. And then one night Tommy's beloved car is sideswiped, and Tommy makes a reckless decision that leads to tragedy.
- A high school tennis champion gets a lesson in honesty when he tries to ace an exam.
- The actual trial of Adolf Eichman held in Israel in 1961.
- Josie Dobbs, a beautiful high school girl with a "loose" reputation who learns to overcome her insecurities with the help of a shy, handicapped classmate.
- Brian taunts the prostitutes and derelicts on skid row while cruising Hollywood Boulevard on Friday night with his friends who are frightened by the street life. A companion bets him he won't spend the weekend there and Brian accepts.
- A teenager eager to pursue a singing career clashes with his more-pragmatic father.
- In Estevez' earliest work, he plays a troubled teen who is staying out all night partying. His father Ramon Bieri (from "Joe's World') attempts to reason with him and calm him down, to no avail. He finally "kidnaps" his own son and takes him out to camp in the middle of the woods to tame the young man's behavior.
- A teenager is faced with decisions involving the care of her ailing grandfather.
- A high-schooler (Judge Reinhold) becomes good friends with a shy new classmate (Jeanne Mori) who has just come with her family from Vietnam. Through their tightly-knit friendship, she opens up, and he realizes the struggles that she and her family face as they adapt to American culture. Inspired by her story but blinded by what only the two of them understand on a humanitarian level, he writes an acoustic-guitar song he titles "A Step Too Slow." Inspired by true compassion and the circumstances of being an outcast and the pressures of high school, he pulls off the most incredible emotional and lyrically-epic performance in front of the class that opens their blind eyes, and gives them a gift as well with a voice of freedom and expression to his new friend. The silence of the class is eventually broken by another classmate who initiates a sing-along to the catchy, warm, heartfelt chorus. A must-see, memorable contribution to humanity.
- Brody tries to help a homeless teenager (AJ Langer). Danielle is obsessed with getting Sophie's ducky mug.
- After being dumped by her boyfriend, Melissa goes on a diet but her impatience to lose weight causes her to experiment with diet pills.
- A teenage boy becomes depressed and suicidal when he loses everything that's important to him.
- A lonely teenage girl named Billie Christopher befriends Craig, a high-school basketball player who becomes paralyzed from the waist down due to an incident that occurs during a game.
- A high-school gang called the Eagles gets a little too out of hand challenging school rules. Teachers try to stop them, but they continue their rebellion.. Eventually the leader of the gang gets help and breaks through his past and continues his way with music.
- A young Chicano labeled a loser is challenged to enter a dirt-bike race.
- All the boys consider pretty Jenny an easy lay, but one shy jock has a crush on the insecure girl and risks his athletic future by standing up for her.
- This is the story of an inner-city Black teenager who needs money desperately and must make hard choices about what he is willing to do to get it. Willy's mother works long hours, against the advice of her doctor, and she still can't meet all the family's bills. When Willy volunteers to drop out of school and work, his mother won't allow it. On his own, Willy decides to keep his summer job and pretend that he is going to school. Shortly after school begins, Willy is laid off and he is left trying to find a job when has very few works skills. He meets a job counselor who teaches him the basics of job hunting. But when his mother collapses at work shortly afterward, Willy is tempted to take the easy way out and start dealing drugs in the neighborhood.
- A break-dancing parable of the courage that facing and living up to the truth takes. Carla has no friends and she doesn't like herself much either. In fact, she thinks she's ugly. Which is why she dresses up in a pilot's outfit, goggles and all, when she wants to go break-dancing. Holly and Oz have been going together for some time, but there are strains in the relationship. Holly feels that Oz cares more about break-dancing than about her. One day, Holly discovers Carla break-dancing by herself in her Pilot's outfit. Mistaking her for a boy, she is amazed at Carla's skill. Later she taunts Oz with the Pilot's skill and says she's now dating him. Oz retaliates by challenging the Pilot to a dance-off. Holly has lied and Carla is something she's not. In the climatic finale, each discovers the debilitating effects of dishonesty, and, in the process, they become best friends.
- After his grandmother dies, Joe Calucci, a member of Red Cordero's street gang, meets an old woman. He bonds with her, and in a while he starts to see his self-worth as more than just another gang member robbing old people.
- Amy Sims is a spoiled brat. She cares only about herself. By lying and manipulation, she has always gotten her father to give her whatever she wants. But she feels unneeded and unchallenged. So she joins a gang that is involved in shoplifting and burglary. When her mother becomes suspicious, Amy's father starts to move in on her. But when she threatens suicide, he backs off. His usual response is to buy his daughter's affection with gifts rather than provide her with the firm direction she really needs. The situation worsens when Mr. Sims learns that Amy is involved in a drug ring. He confronts Amy, but she denies any responsibility. She tries to lie her way out of it, but her father gives her two alternatives: radically change her lifestyle and behavior, or he will turn her over to the police.
- When a steel plant closes, a desperate father must tap into his son's college savings to make ends meet.
- A teacher gives Dorfman an F for his short story because it is too good for Dorfman to have been written by him.
- Ricky struggles to be a parent to her teenage brother and sister, while Brody doesn't want to follow Ricky's rules. Meanwhile, Sophie is afraid the tooth fairy will steal all of her teeth right out of her mouth.
- Brody is attracted to a young woman he's tutoring at school but then discovers she is a single mother.
- When everyone forgets Melissa's birthday, the teen decides to celebrate on her own and breaks some rules.