Favourite High School movie?
 

Here's my top five

1. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
2. Clueless
3. Rushmore
4. Election
5. Risky Business

1.Dazed And Confused: best one I can think of. It has everything!
2.Can't Hardly Wait:this one was good from what I can remember. Reminds me a bit of Dazed.

I'm sure someone else will post this if I don't:
3.Superbad. I didn't really LOVE this movie but it had it's moments.

4.American Pie 1: This was such a good movie. It's too bad they ruined it with the 50million sequels.

Duh, The Breakfast Club!

Never Been Kissed

IMO The Breakfast Club, like Ferris Bueller and a lot of those John Hughes ones, isn't so great now in the cold light of 2009. But that may be because I never saw them when they came out so they don't have any sentimental value for me.

The Breakfast Club definitely, if only for the fact it was realistic during a time when most movies portrayed kids as upper middle class yuppies.

10 Things I Hate About You and a long forgotten one called Better Off Dead with John Cusack (sp?)

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.

Dazed and Confused is way up there on any list I could make.

Does Back to the Future count?

Dangerous Minds
The Breakfast Club
American Pie
The Faculty

Not exactly high school..but

SLC Punk!

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.....

I wasn't sure if Back to the Future should count or not. I suppose it should since a lot of it takes place in high school. Also not sure about prep school movies like Dead Poets Society. If that's allowed as a high school film then School Ties should be too. Which is, I think, better.

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

Heathers

Carrie....

Classic!

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:

• American Graffiti
• Stand By Me
• Remember the Titans
• Sister Act 2 (I'm sorry, but if I hadn't have said it, nobody would have)
• High School High
• Christine (I'm not wrong here, am I?)
• Lost and Delirious (I'm not sure if we've resolved the whole boarding/prep school argument, but they can all be classified as secondary schools)
• The Karate Kid
• Akira (this one may be pushing it)
• Donnie Darko
• Saved!
• The Outsiders

I need to see The Outsiders so badly but it's still not available on R2.

I can't believe nobody's mentioned High School Musical yet! It's probably not in the top10 of anything but undoubtedly it marks a very important point in the evolution of the genre. Are this and Grease the only high school musicals? (i.e. musicals that are set in high schools)

So is this thread 'favorite movies with a high school theme' or 'favorite movies from when you were in high school?' Because the kids in "Stand By Me" weren't supposed to be old enough to be in high school I don't think.

aftr sleeping on it, I came up with a few more:

American History X
Billy Madison
The Craft
Bye Bye Birdie
D3: The Mighty Ducks (the one set in the prep school)
Mean Girls (I'll be honest: I haven't watched the whole thing, but it has Lacey Chabert. That's good enough for me.)
Den Osynlige (or if you prefer english-speakers, it was remade sometime later as The Invisible)
Friday Night Lights
Rebel Without a Cause

one I thought could warrant mention, but was not sure if it could be typified as "high school-themed" would be Murder by Numbers. Also, I have no idea where Cruel Intentions fits in; I thought it was a college-based setting, but I cannot recall exactly.

and Woods, you were right about Stand by Me; it doesn't fit. I must've been thinking of another title with four friends, but it came out wrong. Stand by Me takes part almost solely in the wild outside, so yeah, my mind was most certainly wandering. For some reason, I can't think of the name of it anymore.

one last comment: Back to the Future should definitely count. I'd say most of the film either revolves around the high school, the JC Penny's parking lot, the Prom/Homecoming Dance, and Doc Brown's place. It's a great high school flick.

American Pie
Never Been Kissed
Can't Hardly Wait
The Breakfast Club

and a more "professional" listing from critics, I guess, of the top high school-centric genre films: 50 Best High School Movies

Toy Soldiers with Sean Astin and Wil Wheaton.