Typically when you hear “coming of age” movies, you’ll most likely think of flicks such as Mean Girls, American Pie, Project X where the teenagers are up to some really cool, rad stuff but never in a million years would you have thought of Gran Torino. Partly because the movie wasn’t marketed as one and the plot has different age groups interacting with each other which makes it easy to pass off as just a regular drama genre. Neatly wrapped beneath all that drama, is the coming of age experience of Thao which the average teenage boy can relate to.