A lazy, incompetent middle school teacher who hates her job and her students is forced to return to her job to make enough money for a boob job after her rich fiancé dumps her.
Cal, en fraskilt mann som sliter med å finne suksess i datingverdenen. Inntil nylig var Cal lykkelig gift - eller det trodde han. Når kona hans, Emily, søker om skilsmisse, blir han kastet inn i singellivets ukjente territorium. Cal drukner sorgene sine på en lokal pub, og møter den 30-åringe ungkaren, Jacob, som gir ham råd og hjelper ham med å jobbe med utseendet sitt. Mens kvinner begynner å bli interessert i Cal, faller sønnen hans, Robbie, for barnevakten sin, og Jacob møter en jente som ikke lar seg lure av sjarmen hans.
Stacy and Lydia are BFFs who've always dreamed about having epic bat mitzvahs. But things start to go comically awry when a popular boy and middle school drama threatens their friendship and their rite of passage.
Greg Heffley har en strålende framtid foran seg, men må først overleve den nifseste og mest ydmykende perioden i et menneskes liv: ungdomsskolen. Opplevelsen blir ikke noe lettere av at han er omgitt av idioter med hårete fregner, truserøskende bøller og en muggen ostebit som står i sentrum for en ganske utrolig historie.
Nytt år. Ny dagbok. Nye regler. Etter å ha blitt kvitt virkningene av osten, begynner Greg i sjuende klasse. Han har både selvtilliten og vennene i behold, og han har dessuten fått et godt øye til Holly Hills, den nye jenta i byen. Men hjemme har ting gått over styr, særlig med storebroren Roderick. Greg kommer snart til å lære seg at det faktisk finnes noe som er enda nifsere enn ungdomsskolen - nemlig hans egen familie …
Til tross for sosial isolasjon og frykten for videregående skole, samler en sjenert elev positive tanker for å komme seg gjennom den siste uken på ungdomsskolen.
Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their relationship against the backdrop of Yūichi's love for the dreamy and abstract music of fictional pop star Lily Chou-Chou.
Middle schooler Ben spends his free time watching sci-fi films, playing video games and reading comic books. Surprisingly, his affinity for all things fantastical yields a real result – when he has a vivid dream about technology, his prodigy best friend Wolfgang manages to create a working spacecraft. Joined by their buddy Darren, the boys take off into outer space and encounter some very odd extraterrestrial life.
Greg Heffley is a scrawny but ambitious kid with an active imagination and big plans to be rich and famous – he just has to survive middle school first.
As Alvin struggles with nightmares involving werewolves, the school play of Jekyll & Hyde is in jeopardy when the lead, Alvin, is suspended. In an attempt to boost his confidence, the drama teacher suggests Theodore, who's suddenly going through some canine changes.
A quiet teenage artist Rafe Katchadorian has a wild imagination and is sick of middle school and the rules that have been put before him. Rafe and his best friend Leo have come up with a plan: break every rule in the school hand book and as you expect trouble follows.
Prem, et tolv år gammelt mattegeni, oppdager at hans nylig avdøde far var en berømt rapper. Han prøver umiddelbart å få vite mer om farens liv og lidenskap. Hjulpet av fantasifulle hiphop-drømmer som drives frem av musikken, er Prem fast bestemt på å få vite om hiphop virkelig fins i DNA-et hans.
14-year-old Eun-hee moves through life like a hummingbird searching for a taste of sweetness wherever she may find it. Ignored by her parents and abused by her brother, she finds her escape by roaming the neighborhood with her best friend, going on adventures, and exploring young love.
When her social-climbing father is relocated from small-town North to his native Rome, 12-year-old Caterina enrolls to his old school, finding herself at sea with an environment where students sort themselves by social class and their parents' political affiliation.
A coming-of-age story that follows 12-year-old Andy Nichol, a bright student who, like most kids his age, will do anything to avoid conflict for fear of suffering overwhelming ridicule and punishment from his junior high school peers.
Jessica Darling – a smart, witty, opinionated girl heading into 7th grade – was never too concerned about where she'd fit in the middle school hierarchy. But before her first day of school, her older sister — the super popular Bethany, now in college—decides to help out by giving her the “It List”—a cheat sheet on how to navigate the middle school maze and rise to the top of the popularity chain. The instructions appear simple enough to follow, but, like life, nothing is as easy as it seems.
To be closer to his children following his divorce, Laurent Monier, a history and geography teacher in a peaceful provincial high school, accepts a position in a sensitive college in the Paris suburbs. He is assigned the hardest class, the fourth techno, and he finds an apartment in the Cité des Muriers, a particularly difficult district.
Nerdy middle schooler Tommy is forced take care of a baby dinosaur after his cloned science fair project hatches early. He quickly begins to think of the creature not only as a pet, but also as a friend. But when the dino escapes on the day of the fair, Tommy must figure out a way to get the creature back before greedy grown-ups get to the dinosaur first.
A recently widowed, now single father struggles to raise his sixth-grade son with autism. The pressure of his job and coping with the loss of his wife proves to push him nearly to the breaking point.
A group of young teenagers plan the perfect heist by breaking into their middle school to change their failing test grades.