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Entertainment Weekly's "50 Best High School Movies"

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."

(found at: http://www.netscape.com/viewstory/2006/09/12/entertainment-weeklys-50-best-high-school-movies/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ew.com%2Few%2Freport%2F0%2C6115%2C1532588_1%7C%7C249578%7C1_%2C00.html&frame=true)
1. The Breakfast Club (High School Reunion Collection)  
2. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Widescreen Special Edition)
by Amy Heckerling
  
3. Dazed & Confused - Criterion Collection
by Richard Linklater
  
4. Rebel Without a Cause (Two-Disc Special Edition)  
5. Heathers
by Michael Lehmann
  
6. American Graffiti (Collector's Edition)
by George Lucas
  
7. Clueless  
8. Boyz N the Hood (2-Disc Anniversary Edition)
by John Singleton
  
9. Election
by Alexander Payne
  
10. Ferris Bueller's Day Off  
11. Say Anything  
12. Mean Girls (Special Collector's Edition)
by Mark Waters (VIII)
  
13.
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 High School (1968 Documentary)
by Frederick Wiseman
  
14. Donnie Darko
by Richard Kelly (II)
  
15. Carrie (Special Edition)
by Brian De Palma
  
16. Lucas (1986)
by David Seltzer
  
17. Peggy Sue Got Married
by Francis Ford Coppola
  
18. Rock 'n Roll High School - Special Edition  
19. The Last Picture Show (Definitive Director's Cut Special Edition)  
20. Dead Poets Society
by Peter Weir
  
21. Grease (Widescreen Edition)  
22. American Pie - Unrated (Widescreen Collector's Edition)
by Chris Weitz
  
23. Cooley High
by Michael Schultz
  
24. Rushmore - Criterion Collection
by Wes Anderson
  
25. Hoosiers (2-Disc Collector's Edition)
by David Anspaugh
  
26. Pretty in Pink  
27. To Sir, With Love
by James Clavell
  
28. Back to the Future - The Complete Trilogy (Widescreen Edition)
by Robert Zemeckis
  
29. Gregory's Girl
by Bill Forsyth
  
30. Bring It On  
31. The Karate Kid (Special Edition)
by John G. Avildsen
  
32. Scream (Dimension Collector's Series)  
33. Hoop Dreams - Criterion Collection  
34. Get Real
by Simon Shore
  
35. Brick  
36. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Widescreen Edition) (Harry Potter 4)
by Mike Newell
  
37. Friday Night Lights (Widescreen Edition)
by Peter Berg
  
38. Bye Bye Birdie
by George Sidney (II)
  
39. The Virgin Suicides  
40. Risky Business
by Paul Brickman
  
41. Can't Buy Me Love
by Steve Rash
  
42. Fame
by Alan Parker
  
43. Stand and Deliver
by Ramón Menéndez
  
44. Can't Hardly Wait
by Harry Elfont
  
45. My Bodyguard
by Tony Bill
  
46. Flirting
by John Duigan
  
47. Napoleon Dynamite
by Jared Hess
  
48. Just One of the Guys
by Lisa Gottlieb
  
49. Sixteen Candles (High School Reunion Collection)
by John Hughes
  
50. Splendor in the Grass
by Elia Kazan
  
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Created by MKaiserman on Sep 08, 2006.