Mine are:
- Election
- Clueless
- Back to the Future (technically, has a high school setting).
But I’m something of a simpleton. What are yours?
Mine are:
But I’m something of a simpleton. What are yours?
Only one I can think of would be Rushmore. Ferris, maybe? That is still only two. I am going to see Napoleon soon so maybe that will make three.
Pump Up the Volume.
Breakfast Club.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Carrie
Grosse Point Blanc
To Sir With Love
Sixteen Candles.
Breakfast Club.
American Pie.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Dazed and Confused
Election
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
The Breakfast Club
Fast Times At Ridgemont High
Breakfast Club
Heathers
Donnie Darko
Looking at the dates for these movies, is it surprising I graduated in 1986?
Also, all four flicks were set in the Chicago suburbs in the mid-1980s, just like my high school. Ferris Bueller was like a memory trip through Chicago landmarks, The Breakfast Club setting was the archetypical North Shore Chicago suburban school, Risky Business had scenes shot in the suburb I lived in, and Lucas, as I mentioned, had a scene that was actually filmed in my high school.
Does Ferris count? You know because the main character is never in the school.
Election for sure but I need to think about the others.
Honorable: 4. Would The Emperor’s Club count as well?
Dazed and Confused
Heathers
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
You know, it was HARD to pick just three. I feel the need to make honorable mention of the recent film Saved!, because it was great and absolutely the closest cinematic representation of my own high school I’ve ever seen.
11 posts and no mention of Bill & Ted. Either it hasn’t aged well or isn’t perceived to be a high school film.
For me, it (and Better Off Dead) are edged out by
Election
Dazed and Confused
Say Anything
Better Off Dead
Clueless
Say Anything
Fast Times
Stand and Deliver
The Faculty
Wow, is that hard to narrow down just to three! After a good forty-five seconds of deliberation, I’m going to go with Better Off Dead, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and Not Another Teen Movie.
I’ll regret those choices in another five minutes when something … wait. Morgan Stewart’s Coming Home doesn’t really spend much of the time in high school, but that would definitely replace even Ferris.
Jesus!
No Blackboard Jungle yet?
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Election
Or, if American Beauty counts, then that’s my #1 choice.
Well, they did spend the bulk of the movie across time and space; aside from the final presentation, they just weren’t in class that much.
But I’ll list it anyway, since the two films are among my faves…
What’s your third choice?