favorite movies from high school

Cafe Society
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Eleanorrigby’s and What Exit’s lists include a lot of my teen-years faves. I’ll add:

  • the Mad Max trilogy
  • Hollywood Shuffle
  • Splash
  • Enemy Mine
  • Rocky III and IV
  • Better Off Dead
  • One Crazy Summer
  • Tapeheads
  • The Karate Kid movies
  • The Last American Virgin
  • Valley Girl
  • Back to School
  • Caddyshack
  • Easy Money
  • VisionQuest
  • The Last Dragon
  • I’m Gonna Git You Sucka
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Dirty Dancing,
Dirty Dancing,
and Dirty Dancing.
Oh, and all those John Hughes movies with Molly Ringwald.

Not sure if they’re my favorite movies, but that’s what we watched at slumber parties. **Back to the Future ** is from those days, though, and I still think that it’s, like, the best movie ever made.

Oh, and The Goonies was really big with boys my age.

Millit, Class of '99

23

Breakfast Club
St. Elmo’s Fire
Pretty in Pink

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I was going to say Dead Again because all my other faves have already been listed, but I see it came out in 1991 which is the year after I graduated from highschool. Close enough, maybe?

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Dirty Dancing
Back to the Future
Some Kind of Wonderful (my personal fave)
Heathers
St Elmo’s Fire
Gremlins
Fright Night

Taped-off-the-TV 21 Jumpstreet was also a staple at slumber parties. Ooh, Johnny Depp…

26

thank you! It was the Breakfast Club that I couldn’t remember.

I’ll add:
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Rocky Horror Picture Show

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Easy Rider
Mad Max
Monty Python’s Holy Grail
Rocky Horror
Slapshot

These are still my favorites. With the addition of a new-found love of “Forbidden Zone”. Wonky breasts, my ass…

28

Gone with the Wind, which played 3 times every Saturday my senior year at the run-down movie house near the run-down boarding house.

Rocky Horror, which played way too much at the Biograph. Time flies, it’s been 11 years since the Biograph flipped to a CVS.

Checking dates,
Rock and Roll High School (w/ the forgettable P.J. Soles and the unforgettable Ramones)
and
Carrie
were actually college movies.

Lord, I’m getting old.

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Waiting for Guffman was a big hit in my circle

Monty Python anything

Fight Club, although my friend’s mom ruined the twist at the end the first time I saw it by coming and in and talking over it

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**The Last Starfighter

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

Batman

Weird Science

Aliens

Edward Scissorhands

Some Kind of Wonderful**

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I know I used to go to the movies fairly regularly when I was in school but the only movies I can remember seeing are Volcano and Romeo & Juliet. Volcano’s a pure popcorn movie but I think my whole class loved Romeo & Juliet.