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Each year scores of parents admit their troubled teens to programs all across America. Children die in these treatment programs, while countless others are left emotionally, physically and psychologically terrorized in the name of therapy. Lauded by prominent doctors and political officials, we take a look at Straight Incorporated, one of the most controversial and abusive treatment programs in American history in order to better understand the lasting effects of radical treatment on adolescents. Under the banner of tough love, Straight Incorporated employed North Korean brainwashing tactics in an attempt to euthanize destructive behavior. Now, twenty years later survivors speak out and tell their stories to protect future generations of adolescents from abuses, cultic practices, and suicides.

Bryan, a hopelessly romantic 17-year old Korean punk, enjoys a carefree Summer with his delinquent American friends until he falls in love with a long-lost compatriot in 90s Bergen County, New Jersey.

Ten years after the events of the original, a reprogrammed T-800 is sent back in time to protect young John Connor from the shape-shifting T-1000. Together with his mother Sarah, he fights to stop Skynet from triggering a nuclear apocalypse.

When space galleon cabin boy Jim Hawkins discovers a map to an intergalactic "loot of a thousand worlds," a cyborg cook named John Silver teaches him to battle supernovas and space storms on their journey to find treasure.

One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumbles across an old man whose appearance resembles that of Kurt Dussander, a wanted Nazi war criminal. A month later, Todd decides to knock on his door.

A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.

An anarchic, hip-hop inspired comedy that follows four city boys on a wilderness trek as they try to escape a mysterious huntsman.

Matt falls for Casey, the new girl in school. She's fun-loving and eccentric, but there's a darkness to her whimsy that Matt can't begin to comprehend. When Casey attempts to commit suicide, her parents place her in a mental institution. Matt springs her out, and together the young lovers head on a road trip. They believe their love can "cure" Casey's problems. Matt starts to wonder, though, if are they inspired or misguided.

Ben Cronin has it all: the admiration of his many friends, a terrific girlfriend, and he's on the fast-track to an athletic scholarship. Ben's rock-solid, promising future and romance are turned upside-down with the arrival of Madison Bell. Madison, the new girl in town, quickly sets her sights on the impressionable Ben. While their first few meetings are innocent enough, the obsessive and seductive Madison wants more ... much more.

As the millenium draws near, an evil being awakens. Fused to an ancient Talisman for centuries -- Theriel, the Black Angel is summoned from his resting place to usher in the end of the world. The ghastly messenger must claim seven human sacrifices to complete the ritual and open the gates of Hell. A teenage boy and girl have been chosen to assist the angel in its deadly mission, yet they alone are the world's only hope for salvation.

Two detectives are out to nail a gang of teenagers who have run wild through the city and brutally raped a woman.

A high-school music teacher is the victim of a student who writes indecent notes and assaults women.

Se-jin, a high school student, becomes pregnant and gets ostracized by her family and school. While wandering the streets, she meets Joo-yeong, an experienced runaway, and tries to get an abortion with Joo-yeong's help.

Hwa-young is an 18-year-old student living alone. Her friends call her "mom" and use her house as their place to hang out, but don't really include her in their clique. Hwa-young pays particular attention to one of the friends, Mi-jeong.

Lili, a pouty and voluptuous 14-year-old, is caravan camping with her family in Biarritz. She's self-aware and holds her own in a café conversation with a concert pianist she meets, but she has a wild streak and she's testing her powers over men, finding that she doesn't always control her moods or actions, and she's impatient with being a virgin. She sets off with her brother to a disco, latching onto an aging playboy who is himself hot and cold to her. She is ambivalent about losing her virginity that night, willing the next, and determined by the third.

Kit, a troubled girl, is sent to the exclusive Blackwood boarding school, where she discovers that only four other female students have been admitted to learn the four pillars of knowledge under the ominous wing of the mysterious headmistress Madame Duret.

Yoo-lim, who divorced her husband and was preparing for a new start, learns that her daughter, Eun-ah, got raped by boys at school. However, they will not be punished because they are minors. Eun-ah kills herself, and Yoo-lim seeks revenge.

Grace, a compassionate young supervisor at a foster care facility, helps at-risk teens. But when a new charge dredges up memories of her own troubled past, Grace's tough exterior begins eroding.

The Charters family falls into despair over their drug-addicted son Gary. They discuss his problems through the "Toughlove" program in searching for answers.

The relationships among two pre-pubescent brothers and their estranged father are tested on a trip into the Russian wilderness.

A troubled teen crosses paths with a charismatic, dangerous stranger and it becomes the worst decision in both of their lives.

A disenfranchised 16-year-old girl connects to an older man on the internet and after a brief one-sided affair descends into obsession and anorexia.