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Old 12-31-2009, 09:20 PM   #18 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Willravel View Post
Brick. It's a great noir-esque film which happens to take place in a high school setting. In a bizarre way it manages to communicate an aspect of adolescent society that other films miss.
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Hmmm..... Off the top of my head, the top fifteen are:

1. Breakfast Club
2. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
3. Dead Poets Society
4. Pump Up The Volume
5. Dazed and Confused
6. Fame (the original, not the remake!)
7. Heathers
8. 10 Things I Hate About You
9. Clueless
10. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
11. American Pie
12. Superbad
13. To Sir, With Love
14. Boyz N The Hood
15. Pretty In Pink


But that's just off the top...I know I missed a bunch.....
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Along with the ones mentioned above, I liked...
Lean on Me
Sing
Teen Wolf
Grease and Grease II
The Princess Diaries
Can't Buy Me Love
All great choices! (despite the fact that I have probably only seen half of them; strike-through'd is what I haven't seen or might never have mentioned in the first place. All others I second the ballot.)

Hm..I can't think of what I originally thought is my favorite film regarding the setting of a high school.
Oh, just remembered it! (Thank you, Dushku... oh, and for those like SMeth70, it also has Zooey)
  • The New Guy (it is undoubtely one of my favorite comedy movies, but that may not be saying much since I don't watch, or like, many comedies at all)

Also, I take some amount of fortuitous pleasure to be the first to say... Grease (crap, Fremen!)


(and I guess I shouldn't be surprised to see that most of what has been offered, and what will follow, will mostly stem from the 80s and early 90s. I wonder if Fast Times was among the first to originate this trend, or if it was a product of the trend??)

here's some more I'll be happy to mention, in no particular order:
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