Leaving your child at college can be a sad, exciting, and stressful experience all at once. So after you’ve gotten home, lean into your feelings with these college movies that’ll remind you that your kids will be A-OK.
This prequel to Monsters Inc. does not disappoint. Monsters University follows the budding friendship of college-aged Mike and Sully and how they become the best scaring duo in the business. It’s a wild ride filled with frats, hard lessons, and new monsters!
An open-minded and free-spirited art professor, played by Julia Roberts, teaches at Wellesley College in the 1950s. There, she pushes her young female students to go beyond societal expectations and become something more.
A misguided young man finds inspiration in show-styled collegiate marching bands. He uses his drumming gift to take the band to new heights, but his mistrusting attitude makes his collegiate journey more difficult than he imagined.
Max is off to college, and his father, Goofy, is coming with. In this sequel, Max learns to navigate his new adult life while trying to make space for his father in it. It’s a heartwarming animated gem that’ll show you the Goofy in you.
Racial tensions rise on an Ivy League campus where Black students' union leader, Sam, finds herself in the middle. As she and the other students balance their racial identities and communities, things eventually explode and expose everyone for who they are.
When an admissions counselor meets the son she gave up for adoption, she works with his favorite teacher to get him into Princeton. As decision day approaches for the Ivy League, she discovers what’s important to her and how to be herself.