Timothy Shary interviews Alessandra Seggi about her book Youth and Suicide in American Cinema: Context, Causes, and Consequences (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), which examines approaches to this topic in a range of Hollywood and independent films. The thoughtful conversation discusses key recent examples, such as Archie’s Final Project (David Lee Miller, 2009), as well as more canonical films, such as Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1955). The interview also touches on the important topic of how young people might approach these films in a salutary manner, to facilitate understanding of a difficult subject. Seggi and Shary demonstrate their wide-ranging knowledge of films about young people throughout the episode: Seggi’s follow-up work on youth and suicide in media has appeared in Visual Studies and In Media Res, and Shary’s many publications include Teen Movies: A Century of American Youth (Wallflower Press, 2023) and Generation Multiplex: The Image of Youth in American Cinema Since 1980 (University of Texas Press, 2014).