# 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:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-3-favorite-movies-with-a-high-school-setting/256537/41 "2004-07-24T04:45:07Z")
> [@Arch Trout](#): > > I’ve seen the movie ‘Dick’. > It was not too bad. > So that makes five of us now. 😃 No, four, you were in my count already. And you too, Silver Fire 😛 ---
**Author:** ![PaulFitzroy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@PaulFitzroy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PaulFitzroy)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-3-favorite-movies-with-a-high-school-setting/256537/42 "2004-07-24T04:55:48Z")
Karate Kid Karate Kid Karate Kid ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-3-favorite-movies-with-a-high-school-setting/256537/43 "2004-07-24T05:07:13Z")
Grease Carrie Ferris Bueller ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-3-favorite-movies-with-a-high-school-setting/256537/44 "2004-07-24T07:20:17Z")
**My Bodyguard Heathers Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure** ---
**Author:** ![Hiding\_Wasp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@Hiding\_Wasp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hiding_Wasp)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-3-favorite-movies-with-a-high-school-setting/256537/45 "2004-07-24T07:34:17Z")
I can only think of 2. 1. Fast Times at Ridgemont High 2. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off ---
**Author:** ![Abbie\_Carmichael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@Abbie\_Carmichael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abbie_Carmichael)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-3-favorite-movies-with-a-high-school-setting/256537/46 "2004-07-24T07:52:26Z")
Easy. Heathers Ferris Breakfast Club ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-3-favorite-movies-with-a-high-school-setting/256537/47 "2004-07-24T19:40:19Z")
_Dick is awesome. So, so funny. Not sure who the target audience was, since most of the demographic they aimed it at probably don’t know much about Watergate, or have never even seen All the President’s Men. I guess it was aimed at me specifically, since I was the kid who was seen carrying John Dean’s Blind Ambition_ around school as extracurricular reading (this was in the early nineties – one girl asked me if the book was about Madonna!). ---
**Author:** ![stately\_plump\_buck\_mulligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@stately\_plump\_buck\_mulligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stately_plump_buck_mulligan)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-3-favorite-movies-with-a-high-school-setting/256537/48 "2004-07-24T20:48:08Z")
Clueless Heathers Napoleon Dynamite ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-3-favorite-movies-with-a-high-school-setting/256537/49 "2004-07-24T20:48:40Z")
> [@Moonchild](#): > > 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? Hmm, would ToySoldiers count ? Declan ---
**Author:** ![Caprese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Caprese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caprese)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-3-favorite-movies-with-a-high-school-setting/256537/50 "2004-07-24T21:51:18Z")
> [@kka](#): > > Fast Times at Ridgemont High > > Dazed and Confused > > Election My choices too, in the same order. But _Dick_ was indeed funny and clever. [deep gravelly Nixon voice] “Did you bring the…_cookies_?” [/deep gravelly Nixon voice] ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-3-favorite-movies-with-a-high-school-setting/256537/51 "2004-07-24T22:19:14Z")
**Back to the Future** **Stand and Deliver** **Lean on Me** ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2004, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-3-favorite-movies-with-a-high-school-setting/256537/52 "2004-07-25T05:09:21Z")
Better Off Dead (definitely!) Heathers Back to the Future ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2004, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-3-favorite-movies-with-a-high-school-setting/256537/53 "2004-07-25T05:27:32Z")
Should **Say Anything** count as a high school movie? It mostly takes place after graduation. ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2004, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-3-favorite-movies-with-a-high-school-setting/256537/54 "2004-07-25T19:41:58Z")
> [@Declan](#): > > Hmm, would > > ToySoldiers count ? > > Declan Umm, yeah, I guess so. If the military school is for high schoolers, that would seem in the spirit of the OP. Eric ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2004, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-3-favorite-movies-with-a-high-school-setting/256537/55 "2004-07-25T19:49:02Z")
> [@Yookeroo](#): > > Should **Say Anything** count as a high school movie? It mostly takes place after graduation. Umm, technically, yes, but that’s pushing it a little. I don’t recall one high school scene in the movie (but I’d guess there’s at least one). I notice the overwhelming responses are high school movies from the 1980-1985 time period. (E.g. Fast Times, Breakfast Club, 16 Candles, Better off Dead, Ferris Beuller’s). What gives? And for all the good high school movies from that era there are a ton of bad ones, too (Zapped, etc.). I graduated high school in 1983 and I when I originally posted this it was because I couldn’t think of hardly any high school movies outside of my time period. I thought I was just drawing a blank, but apparently not. I couldn’t name but one or two from all of the 60’s & 70’s (Foxes, Freaky Friday – and now Carrie). ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2004, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-3-favorite-movies-with-a-high-school-setting/256537/56 "2004-07-25T20:48:13Z")
I believe it was the late seventies and eighties when marketeers and demographers began segmenting the market. My WAG ia that these movies were part and parcel of the attention to the “new” youth demographic. As to what’s happened since… another WAG, but like any genre a few good early films define it, and then the industry copies them like mad. But remember _Clueless_ and _Dick_, which are both excellent and came a decade or more later. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2004, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-3-favorite-movies-with-a-high-school-setting/256537/57 "2004-07-25T23:06:30Z")
I can’t believe no-one’s mentioned the _St Trinians_ films. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-3-favorite-movies-with-a-high-school-setting/256537.md?page=2)