What are your 3 favorite movies with a high school setting?

No, four, you were in my count already. And you too, Silver Fire :stuck_out_tongue:

Karate Kid
Karate Kid
Karate Kid

Grease
Carrie
Ferris Bueller

My Bodyguard
Heathers
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure

I can only think of 2.

  1. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
  2. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

Easy.

Heathers
Ferris
Breakfast Club

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!).

Clueless
Heathers
Napoleon Dynamite

Hmm, would

ToySoldiers count ?

Declan

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]

Back to the Future
Stand and Deliver
Lean on Me

Better Off Dead (definitely!)
Heathers
Back to the Future

Should Say Anything count as a high school movie? It mostly takes place after graduation.

Umm, yeah, I guess so. If the military school is for high schoolers, that would seem in the spirit of the OP.

Eric

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).

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.

I can’t believe no-one’s mentioned the St Trinians films.