# What are your 3 favorite movies with a high school setting? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 23, 2004, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-3-favorite-movies-with-a-high-school-setting/256537 "2004-07-23T16:26:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-3-favorite-movies-with-a-high-school-setting/256537/1 "2004-07-23T16:26:04Z")
Mine are: 1. Election 2. Clueless 3. Back to the Future (technically, has a high school setting). But I’m something of a simpleton. What are yours? ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-3-favorite-movies-with-a-high-school-setting/256537/2 "2004-07-23T16:31:24Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-3-favorite-movies-with-a-high-school-setting/256537/3 "2004-07-23T16:32:15Z")
Pump Up the Volume. Breakfast Club. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-3-favorite-movies-with-a-high-school-setting/256537/4 "2004-07-23T16:37:35Z")
Carrie Grosse Point Blanc To Sir With Love ---
**Author:** ![PaperBlob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@PaperBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PaperBlob)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-3-favorite-movies-with-a-high-school-setting/256537/5 "2004-07-23T16:38:05Z")
Sixteen Candles. Breakfast Club. American Pie. ---
**Author:** ![kka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/54ee81/32.png) [@kka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kka)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-3-favorite-movies-with-a-high-school-setting/256537/6 "2004-07-23T16:45:05Z")
Fast Times at Ridgemont High Dazed and Confused Election ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-3-favorite-movies-with-a-high-school-setting/256537/7 "2004-07-23T16:46:57Z")
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off The Breakfast Club Fast Times At Ridgemont High ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-3-favorite-movies-with-a-high-school-setting/256537/8 "2004-07-23T16:48:17Z")
Breakfast Club Heathers Donnie Darko ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-3-favorite-movies-with-a-high-school-setting/256537/9 "2004-07-23T16:57:55Z")
1. **Ferris Bueller’s Day Off** (1986) 2. **The Breakfast Club** (1985) 3. **Risky Business** (1983) 4. **Lucas** (1986), mainly because a scene was actually filmed in my high school. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-3-favorite-movies-with-a-high-school-setting/256537/10 "2004-07-23T16:57:55Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9dc877/32.png) [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-3-favorite-movies-with-a-high-school-setting/256537/11 "2004-07-23T16:58:08Z")
1. _Rushmore_ 2. Does _Dead Poet’s Society_ count? 3. _Donnie Darko_ Honorable: 4. Would _The Emperor’s Club_ count as well? ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-3-favorite-movies-with-a-high-school-setting/256537/12 "2004-07-23T18:18:56Z")
_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. ---
**Author:** ![snorlax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@snorlax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snorlax)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-3-favorite-movies-with-a-high-school-setting/256537/13 "2004-07-23T18:19:36Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-3-favorite-movies-with-a-high-school-setting/256537/14 "2004-07-23T18:51:57Z")
Better Off Dead Clueless Say Anything ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-3-favorite-movies-with-a-high-school-setting/256537/15 "2004-07-23T19:00:20Z")
Fast Times Stand and Deliver The Faculty ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-3-favorite-movies-with-a-high-school-setting/256537/16 "2004-07-23T19:24:39Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-3-favorite-movies-with-a-high-school-setting/256537/17 "2004-07-23T19:29:11Z")
**Jesus!** No **Blackboard Jungle** yet? ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-3-favorite-movies-with-a-high-school-setting/256537/18 "2004-07-23T19:34:38Z")
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure Fast Times at Ridgemont High Election Or, if _American Beauty_ counts, then that’s my #1 choice. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-3-favorite-movies-with-a-high-school-setting/256537/19 "2004-07-23T19:41:01Z")
> [@snorlax](#): > > 11 posts and no mention of Bill & Ted. Either it hasn’t aged well or isn’t perceived to be a high school film. 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… 1. **Back to the Future** 2. **Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure** 3. **Buffy the Vampire Slayer** ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-3-favorite-movies-with-a-high-school-setting/256537/20 "2004-07-23T19:41:25Z")
> [@plnnr](#): > > **Jesus!** > > No **Blackboard Jungle** yet? What’s your third choice? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-3-favorite-movies-with-a-high-school-setting/256537.md?page=2)