Movies like Mischief

“Mischief (1985) is a 1980s American coming-of-age romantic comedy that stages adolescent rite-of-passage in a 1956 high-school world. Its dramatic engine is a friendship that functions as an apprenticeship in social confidence while economic class friction threatens a young romance, all rendered through a lighting grammar and restrained cinematography. Lupani's read: the film matters because it converts small, tactile moments into a study of how desire and social barrier teach a boy to perceive himself and others.”