A spirited young girl in small town Australia forms a meaningful bond with a wild emu as she tries to cope with her beleaguered father, a naïve social worker, and her own painful grief in the aftermath of her mother’s sudden death.
Follows a year in the life of an alternative high school that has radically changed its approach to disciplining its students, becoming a promising model for how to break the cycles of poverty, violence and disease that affect families.
The senior class plans to have a skip-day party at the principal's house until Adam Harris leaks the secret, so he decides to save the celebration by hosting it at his house.
A young mute student goes to the movies when ditching school, but changes his mind when he meets an unemployed man who tries to communicate with him. Through messages and games, the two will make a discovery they never imagined.
Top student Jane Ryan heads to Manhattan for a college-scholarship competition. Her rebellious twin Roxy Ryan goes along to crash a video shoot. But anything can happen - and does - in a romp involving a pursuing truant officer, a smuggler, hunkalicious guys and the girls' realization that when the chips are down, a sister can be the best friend of all.
在春天繁華盛開的季節，一個高中生與幾個死黨決定蹺課到市中心閒逛…似曾相識的情節嗎？對不少走過青澀年紀的人來說，也許這是真實的經驗，也或許是想得半死卻不敢做的事。這部電影引人之處即在於蹺課之後所發生的種種趣事，以及劇中各個角色獨特而自由的個性。法瑞斯（馬修柏德利）是父母眼中的乖寶寶寶，在校也是品學兼優的好學生。一日，法瑞斯不顧校長的起疑假裝生病，帶著女友及同學卡麥隆（艾倫洛克）開著嶄新的法拉利跑車到芝加哥市區遊蕩，他們暫時拋開家庭課業的煩惱，盡情地享受自由的滋味，也藉由這趟旅程，法瑞斯幫助個性壓抑的卡麥隆找回了自尊...
Hassan Darabi, a troublesome, amoral 10-year-old boy in a small Iranian town wishes to see the Iran national football team play an important match in Tehran. In order to achieve that, he scams his friends and neighbors.
The truant officer is after Screwy Squirrel for not going to school.
The teens of a defense-plant town hop on the road to juvenile delinquency while their parents are busy with the war.
A truant officer spots the kids in an amusement park. They try to escape him.