Top 10 Teen Movies
Pretty self-explanatory. 10 really good teen movies that are worth anyone's time with none of the filler (IE: No Twilight, High School Musical or anything with Freddie Prinze Jr.)
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- DirectorRichard LinklaterStarsJason LondonWiley WigginsMatthew McConaugheyThe adventures of high school and junior high students on the last day of school in May 1976.The top of the teen movie heap. Lots of fun but with a well-placed melancholy undertone. Excellent soundtrack.
- DirectorAmy HeckerlingStarsSean PennJennifer Jason LeighJudge ReinholdA group of Southern California high school students are enjoying their most important subjects: sex, drugs and rock n' roll.Classic with far more depth than the likes of Porky's. Eminently quotable with memorable characters and like Dazed sports a great soundtrack.
- DirectorJohn HughesStarsEmilio EstevezJudd NelsonMolly RingwaldFive high school students meet in Saturday detention and discover how they have a great deal more in common than they thought.Definitely John Hughes best teen film. Not quite as deep as some others. But looks beyond the stereotypes prevalent in many teen films of the era.
- DirectorMichael LehmannStarsWinona RyderChristian SlaterShannen DohertyAt Westerburg High where cliques rule, jocks dominate and all the popular girls are named Heather, it's going to take a Veronica and mysterious new kid to give teen angst a body count.Excellent teen dark comedy. While some parts may make people uncomfortable in the post Columbine world, this one still features Christian Slater's best performance.
- DirectorCameron CroweStarsJohn CusackIone SkyeJohn MahoneyA noble underachiever and a beautiful valedictorian fall in love the summer before she goes off to college.Cameron Crowe Classic.
- DirectorRian JohnsonStarsJoseph Gordon-LevittLukas HaasEmilie de RavinA teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.HS set film noir that's perceptive in its portrayal of teens.
- DirectorAlexander PayneStarsMatthew BroderickReese WitherspoonLoren NelsonA high school teacher meets his match in an over-achieving student politician.Uses the tropes of the HS movie to make larger points about politics.
- DirectorJohn HughesStarsMatthew BroderickAlan RuckMia SaraA popular high school student, admired by his peers, decides to take a day off from school and goes to extreme lengths to pull it off, to the chagrin of his Dean, who'll do anything to stop him.John Hughes classic of teen rebellion and anti-authoritarianism.
- DirectorWes AndersonStarsJason SchwartzmanBill MurrayOlivia WilliamsA teenager at Rushmore Academy falls for a much older teacher and befriends a middle-aged industrialist. Later, he finds out that his love interest and his friend are having an affair, which prompts him to begin a vendetta.Wes Anderson adds his to the list of great teen movies.
- DirectorAllan MoyleStarsChristian SlaterSamantha MathisAnthony Luke LuceroMark runs a pirate radio station and causes an uproar when he speaks his mind and enthralls fellow teens.The Teen version of Oliver Stone's Talk Radio.
Runners Up:
Clueless
Weird Science
Real Genius
Grease
Mean Girls
American Pie (just barely)
One's Best Avoided:
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Not Another Teen Movie
Drive Me Crazy
Can't Hardly Wait
Sleepover
All the Twilight Movies
Any High School Musical Movie
Anything with Freddie Prinze Jr.