# Challenge: name a movie that captures the spirit of each decade.

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**Created:** [March 16, 2019, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-name-a-movie-that-captures-the-spirit-of-each-decade/831232 "2019-03-16T18:40:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-name-a-movie-that-captures-the-spirit-of-each-decade/831232/41 "2019-03-18T20:55:45Z")

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1930s------The Grapes of Wrath

1940s------The Best Years of Our Lives, Sunset Boulevard, Casablanca,

1950s------Marty, Blackboard Jungle, Rebel without a Cause, Twelve Angry Men, The Wild One, On the Waterfront

1960s------Dr Strangelove, FailSafe, Easy Rider, Head, The Graduate, Dr NO

1970s-----Network\*(I am actually surprised no one has mentioned it yet)\*), Taxi Driver, Dog Day Afternoon, The Godfather, The Exorcist, Jaws, Rocky, Saturday Night Fever, Halloween

1980s-----The Breakfast Club, WarGames, Red Dawn, First Blood(and the sequels), Wall Street, E.T.:The Extraterrestrial, Nightmare on Elm Street, Rocky IV

1990s------Clueless, Clerks, Mallrats, Office Space, American Beauty, Terminator 2: Judgement Day

2000s-----The Hurt Locker, Green Room, Gran Torino, Crash, The Social Network, United 93, World Trade Center, Winter’s Bone, Clerks II

2010s----Zero Dark Thirty, Act of Valor, Silver Linings Playbook, Get Out,

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2019, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-name-a-movie-that-captures-the-spirit-of-each-decade/831232/42 "2019-03-19T15:52:39Z")

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The 80s makes me think of all those Brat Pack films like “Breakfast Club”. Kids who don’t give a shit and are kind of lost in the post-boomers surge.

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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2019, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-name-a-movie-that-captures-the-spirit-of-each-decade/831232/43 "2019-03-19T17:58:06Z")

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> [@Chefguy](#):
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> The 80s makes me think of all those Brat Pack films like “Breakfast Club”. Kids who don’t give a shit and are kind of lost in the post-boomers surge.

The other side of this being _The Big Chill_, when the Boomers all had to try to grow up and become responsible adults.

(Spoiler alert: 2016.)

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