It is. (Source: Entertainment Weekly #897, 9/15/06)
I wonder what thier defintion of “high school movie” is? I would think at least part of the movie should have scenes in a high school- some, like “American Graffiti” & “Boyz in da Hood” have no scenes in a high school at all- “Hood” might have a brief one. Perhaps they should have titled the list “Best Teen movies”?
You’re forgetting the high school dance in American Graffiti. The top picture here is from that scene.
They were in college in Mallrats I thought. Only the sex researcher girl was in high school.
Ugh. The Breakfast Club is #1? It would never have made it onto any list I made. If you’re going to give 4 of the 5 characters fantasy-perfect saccharine happy endings, at least don’t make things worse than they already were for the fifth. The message is “Anyone can find happiness, unless you happen to be a nerd, in which case you should just be happy to be doing other people’s homework for them”.
I have other complaints as well… I can see calling Hogwarts a high school, but Goblet of Fire was the worst of the Harry Potter movies thus far. If Prisoner of Azkaban doesn’t count as high school (it would correspond to American 8th grade), then don’t put Harry Potter on the list at all. And there were a lot of movies I’d never heard of… Of course, some of them might well be good, but it does at least seem to say something about how much impact they had. But all in all, I’d be much happier if Breakfast Club were much lower or off the list.
It’s no surprise that foreign films again are given short shrift, with two rather egregious ommissions: If… (w/Malcolm McDowell, anticipating Elephant by over 30 years) and Lukas Moodysson’s exquisite Show Me Love (which certainly rivals Get Real in the gay-HS-romance department).