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Contemporary monologues for teens
Teenage characters written by living writers, not a thirty-year-old's speech with the age crossed out. Most of these sources are copyrighted, so the page lists the piece and where it lives.
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Elaine from The Graduate
Mike Nichols · film · comedic · 1:40 min
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Beatrice from The Changeling
Peter Medak · film · dramatic · 1:00 min
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Gwen from Spider Man Across The Spider Verse
Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson · film · anguished · 1:04 min
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Young Ellie from Up
Pete Docter, Bob Peterson · film · inspirational · 1:50 min
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Russell from Up
Pete Docter, Bob Peterson · film · contemplative · 0:55 min
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Roderick from Barry Lyndon
Stanley Kubrick · film · melancholic · 3:25 min
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Frank from Sling Blade
Billy Bob Thornton · film · melancholic · 1:34 min
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Betty from Mulholland Drive
David Lynch · film · joyful · 1:14 min
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Penny from Almost Famous
Cameron Crowe · film · anguished · 1:01 min
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William from Almost Famous
Cameron Crowe · film · anguished · 0:49 min
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Jojo from Jojo Rabbit
Taika Waititi · film · defiant · 1:02 min
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Jojo from Jojo Rabbit
Taika Waititi · film · melancholic · 1:00 min
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Agu from Beasts of No Nation
Cary Joji Fukunaga · film · melancholic · 2:05 min
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Agu from Beasts of No Nation
Cary Joji Fukunaga · film · dark · 1:20 min
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Agu from Beasts of No Nation
Cary Joji Fukunaga · film · anguished · 0:47 min
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Karen from Ordinary People
Robert Redford · film · contemplative · 0:50 min
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Seth from Superbad
Greg Mottola · film · comedic · 0:49 min
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Seth from Superbad
Greg Mottola · film · comedic · 0:51 min
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David from Pleasantville
Gary Ross · film · contemplative · 0:42 min
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David from Pleasantville
Gary Ross · film · inspirational · 1:05 min
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Claudia from Interview with the Vampire
Neil Jordan · film · anguished · 0:43 min
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Charlie from The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky · film · contemplative · 2:54 min
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Wybie from Coraline
Henry Selick · film · contemplative · 0:46 min
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Michael from The Blind Side
John Lee Hancock · film · philosophical · 1:41 min
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Michael from 10 Things I Hate About You
Gil Junger · film · comedic · 1:18 min
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Kat from 10 Things I Hate About You
Gil Junger · film · defiant · 1:02 min
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Mordred from Excalibur
John Boorman · film · dramatic · 2:16 min
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Wendy from The Ice Storm
Ang Lee · film · dark · 1:32 min
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Miss Abbot from Jane Eyre
Cary Joji Fukunaga · film · dark · 2:17 min
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Landon from A Walk to Remember
Adam Shankman · film · comedic · 0:47 min
Length is estimated at a spoken pace of about 150 words a minute. Public-domain pieces are printed in full on their own page; copyrighted ones list the character and the source.
Related: comedic monologues for women under 2 minutes · comedic monologues for men under 2 minutes · one-minute monologues for women
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