The primary source for this 21st-century upgrade of teen-angst cinema is the sensitive, grounded-in-reality novels written by John Green. Somewhere between the overwrought gothic romance of “Twilight” and the gross-out ribaldry of “ Superbad” exists a funny-sad expanse of melodramatic normalcy aimed at young adults that owes more to the issue-oriented “Afterschool Specials” from ‘70s TV and John Hughes than to Dracula and the Farrelly brothers. ![]() There has been a slight if significant shift in the types of films aimed at adolescents lately.
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