Teen movies have plots based on issues concerning young adults, such as first love, friendship issues, conflict/rebellion with parents or other adult figures, bullying, teen angst, moving from middle to high school or high school to college, alienation, underage drinking and drug use. A variety of these such movies have been made. Does this Spark an idea?
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1. Watch 1973's "American Graffiti." Two doutbful boys are scheduled to leave for college in the morning, and spend their final night cruising in their car looking for adventure before the morning comes, and they must decide what to do. Starring Ron Howard, Richard Dreyfuss, Mackenzie Phillips, Cindy Williams, Harrison Ford and a memorable appearance by Susanne Somers.
2. Watch 1978's "National Lampoon's Animal House." Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the Delta House Fraternity, but these frat boys won't go down without a fight or a party. John Belushi, Tim Matheson and John Vernon star.
3. Watch "The Breakfast Club," the 1984 teen film that showcases five very different teenagers stuck together at school during a Saturday detention session. It stars Molly Ringwald, Judd Hirsch, Anthony Michael Hall, Emilio Estevez and Ally Sheedy.
4. Watch the 1985 teen adventure "The Goonies." A group of kids dubbed the Goonies set out on an adventure following a treasure map to get to the buried treasure they hope will aid in saving their houses from demolition. Sean Astin, Corey Feldman and Josh Brolin star.
5. Watch Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) play hooky from school in 1986's "Ferris Bueller's Day Off." Ferris fakes a sick day and has the time of his life with his best friend and girlfriend.
6. Watch "Say Anything," the 1989 teen film starring John Cusack as lovable Lloyd Dobler, the unlikely boyfriend of the class valedictorian Diane Court. Watch as Lloyd pursues Diane and works to get her overprotective father to like him.
7. Watch the four "Karate Kid" movies. Parts I, II and III (which all debuted in the mid and late 1980s) tell of a bullied boy (Ralph Macchio) who learns all about martial arts from a master, the infamous Mr. Miyagi. In 1994, "The Next Karate Kid" brings back Mr. Miyagi as he teaches a troubled teen girl (Hilary Swank) this time.
8. Watch "Clueless," the 1995 Amy Heckerling film that coined the phrase "As if!" for its generation. Rich and spoiled Cher Horowitz (Alicia Silverstone) is the main character in this story, based on Jane Austen's "Emma set," set in a Beverly Hills High School.
9. Watch the biggest high school graduation party unfold in 1998's "Can't Hardly Wait." Follow various high school graduates with different agendas on their graduation night as they get prepared for what lies ahead. Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ethan Embry, Seth Green, Charlie Korsmo, Lauren Ambrose and Peter Facinelli star.
10. Watch Freddie Prinze Jr. in the 1999 teen comedy "She's All That." Freddie stars as Zack Siler, popular high school senior who makes a bet that he can take the artistic school nerd, Laney Boggs (Rachel Leigh Cook), into the prom queen.
11. Watch "10 Things I Hate About You," the updated 1999 version of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew." Larisa Oleynik, Joseph-Gordon Levitt, Julia Stiles, Andrew Keegan and the late Heath Ledger set this classic tale in a modern 1990s high school as two sisters work to find love.
12. Watch the 1999 high school football drama "Varsity Blues." High school football is religious in a small Texas town for the Coyotes football team, and when the star quarterback suffers an injury, they are forced to regroup under the questionable leadership of the second-string quarterback. James Van Der Beek, Paul Walker, Amy Smart and Jon Voight stae.
13. Watch the "American Pie" teen trilogy. The first "American Pie" showcased four high school boys making a pact to lose their virginity by prom night. The friends re-unite their first summer after college in the 2001 "American Pie 2," and in 2003's "American Wedding" one of the boys is finally ready for marriage. These movies put Jason Biggs, Sean William Scott, Chris Klein, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Alyson Hannigan, Shannon Elizabeth, Tara Reid, Eddie Kaye Thomas and Mena Suvari on the teen icon radar, and made teenagers everywhere snicker at the phrase "One time, at band camp...."
14. Watch the 2001 comedy "Not Another Teen Movie." Parodying a variety of the movies listed here, this spoof closely follows the plot of "She's All That" and has various cameos from teen movie stars, such as Molly Ringwald (1980s teen icon), Paul Gleason (Principal Vernon in "The Breakfast Club") and Lyman Ward (Ferris Bueller's dad).
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