# Movies You Enjoyed As Kids in the 80's-90's Era

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**Tags:** movies\
**Created:** [February 20, 2023, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-enjoyed-as-kids-in-the-80s-90s-era/980106 "2023-02-20T21:47:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2023, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-enjoyed-as-kids-in-the-80s-90s-era/980106/41 "2023-03-02T18:51:42Z")

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There’s always the John Hughes catalog, although at least one of them predates the PG-13 rating, and they often go pretty far in testing the limits of that rating.

Somewhat parallel to the John Hughes catalog, with some overlap, is John Cusack’s 80s output. **Better Off Dead** , **One Crazy Summer** , **Say Anything…**

I was really into **Gleaming the Cube** (1989) as a teenager in the early 90s.

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**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2023, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-enjoyed-as-kids-in-the-80s-90s-era/980106/42 "2023-03-02T19:10:33Z")

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I believe the first two Cusack movies you mentioned were directed by [Savage Steve Holland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage_Steve_Holland). Another of his movies was _[How I Got Into College](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_I_Got_into_College)_, which I liked.

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**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2023, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-enjoyed-as-kids-in-the-80s-90s-era/980106/43 "2023-03-02T20:35:54Z")

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I loved:

_Stand By Me_  
_Raising Arizona_ (trying to remember if there was anything too risque in it . . .)  
_Short Circuit_

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