10 Genius Ways Movies Made You Rewatch Them

Coming-of-age movies focused on the relationship between a child and their parent(s) invite the audience to revisit them in an altogether more poignant way, because how you engage with them as a younger person compared to how you relate as an older adult will be very different.

Take Richard Linklater's Boyhood, which chronicles protagonist Mason's (Ellar Coltrane) transition from childhood into adulthood from the ages of six to 18, as was captured by Linklater over the course of 12 years in real time.

Watched in younger days, you'll surely find kinship with Mason, but come back to it today, a decade later, and you may well connect more with the experiences of Mason's parents (Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette).

Granted, Boyhood is literally only 10 years old, so for many it might be a little while longer before it truly connects with them on a different level from that first viewing, but the same can be said for other popular movies with coming-of-age elements, such as Toy Story.

Watching the original Toy Story as a kid yourself and identifying with Andy is an entirely different experience to watching it 20 or 30 years later and perhaps being a parent yourself, where you'll likely see it through the eyes of Andy's mother instead.

Roger Ebert once famously called cinema the "Empathy Machine", and honestly, is there any better expression of it than this?