10 Best Teen Movies of All Time
A list of the best teen movies and films about teenagers, adolescence and high school. These are the best coming-of-age teen films ever. These films show the scary, the funny, and the crazy times of being a teenager.
10. Heathers
A girl who half-heartedly tries to be part of the “in crowd” of her school meets a rebel who teaches her a more devious way to play social politics. (103 mins.)
Heathers is
a 1988 dark comedy film starring Winona Ryder and Christian
Slater. The film portrays four girls in a trend-setting clique at a
fictional Ohio high school.
9. Rushmore
The king of Rushmore prep school is put on academic probation. (93 mins.)
Rushmore is
a 1998 comedy-drama film directed by Wes Anderson about an eccentric teenager
named Max Fischer, his friendship with rich industrialist Herman Blume, and
their mutual love for elementary school teacher Rosemary Cross.
8. 10 Things I Hate About You
A film inspired by the classic Shakespeare play “The Taming of the Shrew.”, set
in a modern day high school.
10 Things I
Hate About You is a 1999 American teen romantic comedy film. It
is directed by Gil Junger and stars Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger. The
screenplay was written by Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith.
7. Boyz n the Hood
Saga of a group of childhood friends growing up in a Los Angeles ghetto. Boyz n
the Hood is a 1991 American crime drama film written and directed by John
Singleton. Starring Cuba Gooding, Jr., Ice Cube, Larry Fishburne, Morris
Chestnut, Nia Long and Angela Bassett, the film depicts life in poor South
Central (now South) Los Angeles, California.
112
mins Boyz n the Hood was filmed and released in
the summer of 1991. It was nominated for both Best Director and Original
Screenplay during the 1991 Academy Awards, making Singleton the youngest person
ever nominated for Best Director and the first African–American to be nominated
for the award.
6. Peggy Sue Got Married
Peggy Sue faints at a Highschool reunion. When she wakes up she finds herself
in her own past, just before she finished school. (103 mins.)
Peggy Sue Got Married is a 1986 American
comedy-drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Kathleen Turner
as a woman on the verge of a divorce, who finds herself transported back to the
days of her senior year in high school.
5. Dazed and Confused
The adventures of incoming high school and junior high students on the last day
of school, in May of 1976. The Movie Duration is 102 mins.
Dazed
and Confused is a 1993 coming of age comedy film written and
directed by Richard Linklater. The film features a large ensemble cast of
actors who would later become stars, including Matthew
McConaughey, Jason London, Ben Affleck, Milla Jovovich, Cole Hauser, Parker Posey, Adam
Goldberg, Joey Lauren Adams, Nicky Katt, and Rory Cochrane. The plot follows
various groups of teenagers during the last day of school in summer 1976.
4. Mean Girls
Mean Girls is a 2004 American teen comedy film directed by Mark Waters. The
screenplay was written by Tina Fey and is based in part on the non-fiction book
Queen Bees and Wannabes by Rosalind Wiseman, which describes how female high
school social cliques operate and the effect they can have on girls.
There
was a time when Lindsay Lohan was best known for her
acting rather than her party-hopping. Showcasing La Lohan in arguably her best
role to date, this Tina Fey-scripted film also boasts a breakout turn by Rachel
McAdams as evil queen bee Regina George. While Mean Girls is technically a comedy, its
depiction of girl-on-girl cattiness stings incredibly true.
3. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
A high school wise guy is determined to have a day off from school, despite of
what the principal thinks of that. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is a 1986
American coming of age comedy film written and directed by John Hughes.
The
film follows high school senior Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick), who decides
to skip school and spend the day in downtown Chicago. Accompanied by his
girlfriend Sloane Peterson (Mia Sara) and his best friend Cameron Frye (Alan
Ruck), he creatively avoids his school’s Dean of Students Edward Rooney
(Jeffrey Jones), his resentful sister Jeanie (Jennifer Grey), and his parents. During the
film, Bueller frequently breaks the fourth wall by speaking directly to the
camera to explain to the audience his techniques and thoughts.
2. Juno
Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual
decision regarding her unborn child. The 96 mins duration Juno is a 2007
comedy-drama film directed by Jason Reitman and written by Diablo Cody. Ellen
Page stars as the title character, an independent-minded teenager confronting
an unplanned pregnancy and the subsequent events that put pressures of adult
life onto her. Michael Cera, Olivia Thirlby, J. K. Simmons,
Allison Janney, Jennifer Garner, and Jason Bateman also star.
1. The Breakfast Club
The Breakfast Club is a 1985 American coming of age comedy-drama film written
and directed by John Hughes. Five high school students, all different stereotypes,
meet in detention, where they pour their hearts out to each other, and discover
how they have a lot more in common than they thought. Duration of the movie is
97 mins. The Breakfast Club is the best teen movies of all time. It may lack
the scope of its peers – the drinking, the driving, the listless loitering in
parking lots – as well as any scenes that actually take place during school.
Critically,
it is considered the greatest high school film of all time by Entertainment
Weekly, as well as one of Hughes’ most memorable and recognizable works.
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