all time best teen movie

Clueless
Lucas
St. Elmo's Fire
Stand By Me
Friday Night Lights
Back to the Future
American Pie
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
and believe me or not... Harry Potter (reminds me of my British boarding school days)

Oh, yeah--Back to the Future was pretty damn good.

Something about Goonies was kinda neat. Well, okay, I liked it lots. Young love and adventure.

Honey I Shrunk the Kids? Young love and adventure

Edward Sissor Hands. Young love. Redemption.

The one that really captured my nephew and niece's hearts was Harry and the Hendersons. They wore the tape out. Got a new tape. But they wore out the damn VHS player. Had to get a DVD. Then had to buy the DVD version of HATH. Then we had to hide the DVD of HATH.

Damn their eyes!

Tri

maestrowork said:

St. Elmo's Fire

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That's not a teen movie.
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Dazed and Confused
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Breakfast Club


Lock thread!!

Clueless and Heathers.

One Crazy Summer... Demi Moore, John Cussack and directed by "Savage" Steve Holland.

Always a favorite of mine.

Stand By Me
My Girl (is that a young teen or kid's movie?)
Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken
Risky Business (yes, I know . . . but still . . . )

I don't remember being a teenager.

These would definitely be on my list:
The Breakfast Club
Sixteen Candles - actually, just about anything from John Hughes.
Ghostbusters

Jeez, did I just date myself or what?

Revenge of the Nerds

I'm still in my 'youth', but some of my favorites are:

- The Breakfast Club
- Back To The Future
- The Nightmare Before Christmas (alright, it's a kids-y movie, but it's still a favorite)
- Edward Scissorhands
- Spiderman
- Pretty In Pink
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off

rhymegirl said:

I don't remember being a teenager.

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Interesting.....

Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, (haven't seen all of Pretty in Pink), Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Nothing current comes to mind.

I see other people putting Spiderman. So I guess I count that because it helped me with my teenage identity crisis and plus he's so cool.

Heathers
Ten Things I Hate About You
Edward Scissorhands
The Sure Thing

licity-lieu said:

Teen movies, actually.
Ok, I'm going through a YA faze in writing. So...just wondering what you all would rate as the best teenage movie of all time. The one that totally captured your imagination in your youth--the one that you just loved to watch over, and over again (or still do!)

Some of mine for starters:
The Breakfast Club
Valley Girl
Puberty Blues
Grease
Heathers
hmmm....so may more, but I'm sure you'll all jog my memory.

God, I'm showing my age...

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I love, love, loved Valley Girl! Not only did the music kick a**, but most people don't know that it was one of Nicholas Cage's first movies. He was, like, fer shure, so totally dreamy in it! Grease was another one I loved, too.

Currently, High School Musical is the big one in my household, thanks to the kids. (Yep, who's showing their age now? LOL)

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey
Back to the Future trilogy
The Goonies
Legally Blonde

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

And I am an unrepentant HP geek. I can prove it. Here's my desktop:

Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Wayne's World

Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Ten Things I Hate About You
The New Guy
The Goonies

I am sure there are more but my old age is kicking in and can't remember any others.
K.

I thought Dirty Dancing was good!

I forgot American Graffiti -- it's a classic.

"Garry,....Wyatt,....Breakfast!"


I can't believe Weird Science hasn't been mentioned.
or has it?

Oh, jolly good, cray! Wierd Science.

And Date With An Angel

Hmmmm, whoa. Summer Lovers.

Tri

Better Off Dead

Back to School

Summer School

Not Another Teen Movie

Real Genius

Boy do I feel old!

You specified when I was a youth. It appears that there were very few teen movies in the 70's. The 60's had the beach movies and the Gidget movies, but they were before my time. The 80's had the Breakfast Club and such. But my generation? All I can think of is American Grafitti and Carrie. I suppose you could count the original Star Wars. It's not usually considered a teen movie, but it sure had a huge teen following.