Entertainment Weekly's "50 Best High School Movies"

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From September 15, 2006 issue: "We still enjoy reliving our worst teenage traumas, from classrooms and cafeterias to pep rallies and senior proms. This dean’s list of films captures those memorable years of promise and pimples."

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  3. 3.
    Dazed & Confused (The Criterion Collection)
    by Richard Linklater
  4. 4.
    Rebel Without a Cause (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Nicholas Ray
  5. 5.
    Heathers
    by Michael Lehmann
  7. 7.
    Clueless
    by Amy Heckerling
  9. 9.
    Election

  10. 10.
    Ferris Bueller's Day Off
    by John Hughes
  11. 11.
    Say Anything
    by Cameron Crowe
  12. 12.
    Mean Girls (Widescreen Edition)
    by Mark Waters
  13. 13.
    High School (1968 Documentary)
    by Frederick Wiseman
  14. 14.
    Donnie Darko (Widescreen Edition)

  15. 15.
    Carrie (Special Edition)
    by Brian De Palma
  16. 16.
    Lucas

  17. 17.
    Peggy Sue Got Married

  20. 20.
    Dead Poets Society
    by Peter Weir
  21. 21.
    Grease (Widescreen Edition)
    by Randal Kleiser
  22. 22.
    American Pie (Unrated Widescreen Collector's Edition)
    by Chris Weitz
  23. 23.
    Cooley High

  24. 24.
  25. 25.
    Hoosiers (2-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by David Anspaugh
  26. 26.
    Pretty in Pink

  27. 27.
    To Sir, With Love

  28. 28.
    Back to the Future: The Complete Trilogy (Widescreen Edition)
    by Laurent Bouzereau
  29. 29.
    Gregory's Girl

  30. 30.
    Bring It On (Widescreen Collector's Edition)
    by Peyton Reed
  31. 31.
    The Karate Kid (Special Edition)
    by John G. Avildsen
  32. 32.
    Scream (Dimension Collector's Series)
    by Wes Craven
  33. 33.
  34. 34.
    Get Real
    by Simon Shore
  35. 35.
    Brick

  37. 37.
    Friday Night Lights (Widescreen Edition)
    by Peter Berg
  38. 38.
    Bye Bye Birdie
    by George Sidney
  39. 39.
    The Virgin Suicides

  40. 40.
    Risky Business

  41. 41.
    Can't Buy Me Love

  42. 42.
    Fame

  43. 43.
    Stand and Deliver

  44. 44.
    Can't Hardly Wait

  45. 45.
    My Bodyguard
    by Tony Bill
  46. 46.
    Flirting
    by John Duigan
  47. 47.
    Napoleon Dynamite
    by Jared Hess
  48. 48.
    Just One of the Guys

  50. 50.
    Splendor in the Grass

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Created by Mark Kaiserman on Sep 08, 2006.
 

Comments

johnofjack

Untitled — 2 years ago

Harry Potter is included but If…. isn’t?

May 22, 12:11PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

marfyc

What? — 3 years ago

Uh… what about Dazed and Confused?

Feb 07, 12:22PM | 1 comment | Reply to this

Mark Kaiserman

EW Gets a B+ — 5 years ago

Unlike many EW lists (see “25 Most Controversial Films” earlier this year), this one doesn’t over-use really recent films that won’t hold up. Of films from the last 3 years, Mean Girls, Napoleon Dynamite, Brick, and Friday Night Lights are worthy inclusions – Harry Potter #4 is a little more debatable perhaps since HP#5 may quickly trump it.

While the order of the 50, is, as always, debatable, the list itself seems to contain the usual EW obscure films (Get Real) and clunkers (Just One of the Guys, Can’t Buy Me Love – if you include those, why not Scott Baio’s Zapped! – okay that’s not a fair comparison)

But, as always, there are some notable absences: Saved!, Weird Science, WarGames, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Pleasantville, Porky’s, The Chosen, October Sky, Dick, and The Girl Next Door.

Sep 08, 03:23PM | 2 comments | Reply to this



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