Anyway,

Okay, the only thing I don’t like about your list is your aversion to John Hughes’s Molly Ringwald films, but I’ll let it slide, because you’re awesome.

But I do have one question. You mentioned Looking for Alibrandi in your list, which is a book I really, really loved and I’ve been trying to get a hold of the movie. However, living in Arizona of the USA has rather put a damper on that. I was just wondering if you knew of anywhere in the US where one could go about finding that film.
Thanks,
Elise

Bend It Like Beckham
Bring It On
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Mean Girls
She’s All That

And some others would be:

Napolean Dynamite
Freaky Friday
She’s the Man
What a Girl Wants

Hey, when did the big letters start showing up?

Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Wargames

and my favorite high school geek movie…

Pump up the Volume

other great movies: bend it like beckham (i loved the coach-dude. can i just make out with him?) she’s all that, and she’s the man.

i love the outsiders!
it’s so un-teen, but the most teen… if that makes any sense…

I also love Juno. It just came out. It takes place in MN, where I’m from. It is really funny, and very true at the same time.

I also love Clueless, Heathers and Valley Girl– remember that fabulous tagline: “She’s cool/he’s hot/she’s from the Valley/he’s not!”

I never liked Dirty Dancing (put Baby back in her corner PLEASE) or Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Flashdance reads like an extended commercial for legwarmers.

I still haven’t seen Mean Girls and I’m dying to. Must rush right out to Blockbuster.

Also One Crazy Summer and does anyone remember Ice Castles? Dude, when I was a teenager, I thought that stuff was way deep.

Oh and one more.

Valley Girl.

Seriously, a teenaged Nicolas Cage? Meow.

As Da Chicagoan pointed out I should have said that I don’t like John Hughes’s Molly movies. I loved them as a kid but seeing them recently was a shocking disappointment. Molly=world’s biggest whinger. But Ferris Bueller is fabulous. Especially as it makes me like someone I wouldn’t be able to stand in real life.

I’m shocked so many of you like Brick. I thought it was sexist predictable boring rubbish. I hate Rushmore and Election for similar reasons. But I forgive you; we all have glitches in our taste files.

Heathers is okay but I don’t love it the way I did when I was a kid. To make my list I have to be able to watch the movie multiple times. I don’t think I can watch Heathers again.

I’m also shocked that none of you seem to have seen Gregory’s Girl. You all MUST see it!

Because of your reminders I have added The Lost Boys to the list. I can’t believe I forgot it!

Holly: Like I said I included She’s All That because of the dance sequence at the end, which I adore and can watch multiple times. It’s not that good a film otherwise.

I especially love
Bend It Like Beckham
Dirty Dancing
The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love
Saved

All of those movies are well-written and acted, and have depth–and strong girl characters, which is important to me–And teens standing up against some form of oppression or inequality or something(well, dirty dancing is more focused on the male protag, but he sure stands up to a form of oppression).

I know there are others, i just can’t think of them right now. hm. i love Big with Tom Hanks–don’t know if that’s a YA movie, though–and Cocoon….

good movies, like good books, are wonderful.

I’d list more, but this just pops to the top too darn fast.

And yea, how could Heathers not be on your list?

and dirty dancing of course.

{Insert picture of my boyfriend rolling his eyes here.}