# Name a movie which most accurately captures teen life from when you were a teen **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 17, 2017, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-movie-which-most-accurately-captures-teen-life-from-when-you-were-a-teen/793887 "2017-08-17T18:53:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-movie-which-most-accurately-captures-teen-life-from-when-you-were-a-teen/793887/101 "2017-08-25T16:09:24Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Teen Wolf Too was uncanny at how close it mirrored my experience. We’re not talking about just your palms, now. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-movie-which-most-accurately-captures-teen-life-from-when-you-were-a-teen/793887/102 "2017-08-25T23:42:23Z")
I just thought of another one for me: _My Name Is Earl_ Ok, so it’s not about teens or high school, but I can relate the characters struggle to deal with being poor. ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2017, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-movie-which-most-accurately-captures-teen-life-from-when-you-were-a-teen/793887/103 "2017-08-26T19:02:32Z")
I think “Kids” captures a certain segment of teen life from when I was a kid but not my personal experience. I was around the age of those “kids” when the movie coming out, though I couldn’t imagine doing anything they did. I grew up in a sort of combination beach resort/rural farm life area. I also transferred for my last 2 years and the 30 mile shift was a different world. Went from surfers and farmers to some sort of “Friday Night Lights” town in the north. So I couldn’t relate to big city or Midwest living. But, when I talk to people my age who grew up in a big city, NYC especially, it sounds like the movie Kids. I spent most of my time going to school and getting good grades, playing basketball, listening to music alone, not drinking or having sex, and working on the weekends. ---
**Author:** ![BeeGee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5a626/32.png) [@BeeGee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeeGee)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2017, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-movie-which-most-accurately-captures-teen-life-from-when-you-were-a-teen/793887/104 "2017-08-26T22:40:12Z")
> [@UncleRojelio](#): > > Dazed and Confused. > > I grew up in Austin where the movie was filmed during the time the move was set. I recognized everyone and everything in that movie. I played baseball on the same field where Mitch’s game was in the movie. I attended games at the same stadium where the part of the movie was set. I had friends at the same school. The cars were the same as those in the parking lot at my high school. The tower that the characters climb? Those are called “Moonlight” towers and still exist all over Austin. The “Club” where the characters hang out was never really a club but it is right across the street from a skating rink where we did hang out (The skating rink is now closed but the building where the “club” was is still there and has a plaque about the movie). Actually, the interiors were shot at The Carousel over south of Capitol Plaza. Did you notice that it was the old skating rink that the kids climbed on to of to dump the white paint on Been Affleck? Then they took off down Wild Ave. But yeah, there was no bar in the Violet Crown. But they did have AA meetings there for years. (Lived on both Ruth and Brentwood in the 80s) ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2017, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-movie-which-most-accurately-captures-teen-life-from-when-you-were-a-teen/793887/105 "2017-08-27T00:28:46Z")
_ **Breaking Away** _, but, then, I went to college at I.U. shortly before the movie was made. Granted, I didn’t race bikes, but it does resemble by adolescent years more than most. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2017, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-movie-which-most-accurately-captures-teen-life-from-when-you-were-a-teen/793887/106 "2017-08-27T04:44:32Z")
It’s a tossup between ["Wild In The](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063808/) [Streets"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV2XUTCurvQ) and “Reefer Madness”. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2017, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-movie-which-most-accurately-captures-teen-life-from-when-you-were-a-teen/793887/107 "2017-08-27T06:18:39Z")
For me, it’s the [music video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYYdQB0mkEU) for the Rush song “Subdivisions”. Tempest was even my favorite video game back then. ---
**Author:** ![Mangosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2017, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-movie-which-most-accurately-captures-teen-life-from-when-you-were-a-teen/793887/108 "2017-08-27T20:25:06Z")
_“Blow”_ My housemates and I bought kilos and sold “lids” to pay the rent and college tuition. We lived on the beach in Oceanside, California. The beginning of the movie really brought back memories. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2017, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-movie-which-most-accurately-captures-teen-life-from-when-you-were-a-teen/793887/109 "2017-08-27T21:17:22Z")
Hoosiers. Except we lost the state championship. The film accurately portrays how important school sports can be for a small town. It’s the biggest source of pride and achievement (for the hometown) imaginable. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2017, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-movie-which-most-accurately-captures-teen-life-from-when-you-were-a-teen/793887/110 "2017-08-28T01:50:45Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > Not _Dead Poets Society_, nor much of _Scent of a Woman_? These were boarding schools, but if you went to a day school, many similarities, I think. Not really… the defining thing about our school was the single-sex aspect more than anything. Those movies’ schools were more concentrated on the boarding school aspect from what I could tell. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-movie-which-most-accurately-captures-teen-life-from-when-you-were-a-teen/793887.md?page=5)