Samantha Leal is the Deputy Editor at Well+Good, where she spends most of her day thinking of new ideas across platforms, bringing on new writers, overseeing the day-to-day of the website, and working with the awesome team to produce the best stories and packages.
Maybe there's an arbitrary marker that made you feel like you had grown up—from milestones like graduating from school or landing a first job to emotional experiences like falling in love or experiencing grief. But in reality, we're always coming of age. That's perhaps why coming-of-age movies are so resonant, no matter what age they focus on.
The coming-of-age film is a classic Hollywood narrative, which finds a character of any age—although more often than not in their young adulthood—as they step into their own. Whether they're a comedy, drama, or somewhere in between, they tend to tug on the heartstrings, and feature trials and tribulations that you can relate to in some form. We rounded up a handful of the best films from the genre, ranging from inspirationalFew filmmakers have a pen as stunning as Mike Mills.
Before W+G, she was the Senior Web Editor for Marie Claire and the Deputy Editor for Latina.com, with bylines all over the internet. Graduating from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University with a minor in African history, she’s written everything from travel guides to political op-eds to wine explainers to celebrity profiles. Find her online pretty much everywhere @samanthajoleal.
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