The Badgers Top Ten Teen Movies!
In no particular order

 

1.“The Breakfast Club” What I consider the beginning of John Hughes’ run of seminal 1980’s teen films. This film gave us…a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, and a criminal. “Being bad feels pretty good, huh?”

2. “Rebel Without a Cause” James Dean…50’s teen angst…a young Dennis Hopper…Stunning. “I don't know what to do anymore. Except maybe die”

3. “Halloween”. The Teen pic is a transient genre, all you need a cast of teenagers and it can be added to all most all genres. “Halloween” is the King of all Stalk and Slash movies.

4. “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” John Hughes gives us the Crown Prince of Cool. Every high school kids dream. “Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it”

5. “The Faculty” Science Fiction and teen angst. Kinda proves that the Drugs do work! “I'm not an alien, I'm discontent”

6. “Ghost World” Post high school disillusion and wonderful acting from Steve Buscemi and Thora Birch. “Oh, face it, you just hate every single guy on the face of the earth…That’s not true. I just hate all these extroverted, obnoxious, pseudo-bohemian losers”

7. “Cruel Intentions” An intelligent re-telling of Dangerous Liaisons. Slick, sexy and very funny. “Introduce her to your world of sex, drugs and... what else do you do?”

8. “Dazed and Confused” the last day of High School 1976 style. “The older you get the more rules they are going to try and get you to follow. You just gotta keep on livin man. L-I-V-I-N”

9. “Donnie Darko” poetic, tragic, compelling, confusing, stunning. A wonderful introduction to the glory of Gyllenhaal. “Some people are just born with tragedy in their blood”

10. “Girl, Interrupted” Equally depressing and uplifting. The acting talent of everybody involved in this film is superb. “Well, I haven't exactly been a ball of joy, Melvin”