A good example: -Shine (Hicks, 1996) Others to consider: -Now and Then (Glatter, 1995) -The Last Emperor (Bertolucci, 1987) -Big (Marshall, 1988) -13 Going on 30 (Winick, 2004) -The Emperor's Club (Hoffman, 2002) -Superman (Donner, 1978) -Disney's The Kid (Turteltaub, 2000) -Frailty (Paxton, 2001) -Ray (Hackford, 2004) -Walk the Line (Mangold, 2005) And, if you're not limited to human protagonists, you will find this conceit in some of the Disney animated animal films: Bambi, The Fox and the Hound, etc. Regards, Jonathan A. Cullum Auburn University >>> Barry Langford <[log in to unmask]> 6/20/2007 11:54 AM >>> Dear All Can anyone think of any movies which begin with a child protagonist and then move on to dramatise the same character's experiences as an adult? I'm not thinking here of film series (e.g. 400 Blows & sequels), nor films with brief childhood flashbacks (e.g. Silence of the Lambs, Day for Night, countless others), but individual films significantly structured in this way (presumably employing different actors). I'm sure there must be several but at present all I can think of is Once Upon a Time in America (strictly speaking this of course starts in adulthood, then reverts to childhood, then advances to old age...but you get the idea). Any suggestions very gratefully received. Tx Barry Dr Barry Langford Senior Lecturer in Film & Television Studies Department of Media Arts Royal Holloway, University of London Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX (01784) 443734/443833 [log in to unmask] ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu ( http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ ) ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org