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Blockbusters...who needs them in 2013.

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1. The Spectacular Now I love a good high school drama that doesn't try to  be funny and doesn't attempt to fit into the same conventional archetypal high school film. A film focusing on real teenagers in real life situations is something anyone older or younger can relate to. It's been done before with The Breakfast Club, Perks of Being a Wallflower,  and possibly though not directly  10 Things I hate About You  and now The Spectacular Now . Starring Shailene Woodley and Miles Teller, relative newcomers with a back catalogue of decent dramas, this is their chance to shine, with past roles as George Clooney's daughter in  The Descendants  and the criminal son in  Rabbit Hole to name their incredible debuts into Hollywood.  This high school film focuses on adolescence in the 21st century, discovering who they are, who they could be and what they want to be. Through love, life, family, relationships. It looks like an unconventional story about two high school senio