What do you think is the best teenage coming of age movie?

Honorable mention.

Revenge of the Nerds
Some Kind of Wonderful
Here on Earth
American Pie
Save the Last Dance
Dirty Dancing
Weird Science

My dad used to call me Ferris when I skipped school...just don't kick the 8 out of the garage.:(

Ferris Bueller was my idol!

Originally posted by noahprtlnd
Ferris Bueller was my idol!

i gave my 15 year old son my copy of the movie. now he's my sons idol. :)

I suggest "Not Another Teen Movie".

Where's Animal House?!?

Originally posted by eccles
Where's Animal House?!?

"Animal House" is a college movie.
Technically, so is "Real Genius"

Better Off Dead -

The cute French neighbor, who could rebuild a Camaro, and loved Baseball. She was my idol when I was in highschool!

It also sponsored one of the great lines in all film:

"I want my two dollars!" Spoken by Yano Anaya. Anybody know his only starring role which was opposite Dylan Mcdermott and had Dean Stockwell in a minor part?

I did not see better off dead listed above.....

Originally posted by Haze
"I want my two dollars!" Spoken by Yano Anaya. Anybody know his only starring role which was opposite Dylan Mcdermott and had Dean Stockwell in a minor part?

That would be "The Blue Iguana".
How obscure...

I swear I watch better off dead at least once every couple months, it's on all the time on some channel I surf regularly. My vote goes to Breakfast Club, I give it a slight edge over Ferri simply for the great 80s soundtrack.

Originally posted by Maniac
"Animal House" is a college movie.Flounder and Pinto were freshmen, and thus teenagers, and they certainly "came of age" at Delta House. QED. :p

Its not on the list but i would like to give notice to
Cant Hardly Wait

Originally posted by Maniac
I suggest "Not Another Teen Movie".

Maybe it's me, But I almost pissed myself watching that one...

Save Ferris!

oh HELL naw...did you just forget The Goonies?!? that is by far the breastest teenage movie...hehe...well, i can't decide between The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off...still, i think Breakfast Club inches out a little ahead of the pack so i pick Breakfast Club...but if The Goonies was up there...

Originally posted by Maniac
That would be "The Blue Iguana".
How obscure...

Truly obscure. I was wondering if anyone else would ever have seen it.

Originally posted by BRx8
oh HELL naw...did you just forget The Goonies?!? that is by far the breastest teenage movie...hehe...well, i can't decide between The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off...still, i think Breakfast Club inches out a little ahead of the pack so i pick Breakfast Club...but if The Goonies was up there...

Goonies is amazing, but is that really a teenage movie? Weren't those kids more around 12 or so?

Originally posted by noahprtlnd
Goonies is amazing, but is that really a teenage movie? Weren't those kids more around 12 or so?

ah, i misunderstood...i read as what was my favorite movie when i was a teenager...i was gonna nominate Stand By Me as well...Corey Feldman sure had some good 80s movies back then, along with Haim...

btw, new Goonies movie proposed...dunno how to take it...all the old cast is back, Richard Donner is back, Steven Spielburg is back, and Chris Columbus is back but the premise isn't too promising

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1480346/11112003/id_0.jhtml


BEVERLY HILLS, California — Mikey, Mouth, Data, Chunk and Sloth may be returning to the big screen, and with a whole new gang of Goonies — or more accurately, Groonies — joining them.

Richard Donner, who directed the 1985 classic "The Goonies," and Steven Spielberg, who executive produced it and co-wrote the script with future "Harry Potter" director Chris Columbus, have purchased a sequel script and are pushing to get it made.

"We're trying desperately," Donner said. "We're just trying to get Warner Bros., who owns it, to say yes." Warner Bros. did not return a request for comment.

The sequel would reunite the original cast, which included Sean Astin, Corey Feldman, Josh Brolin and others, with a new bunch of suburban kids, Donner said.

"The new group is called the Groonies, because they happen to live in a town where [Data], the Chinese kid, lives ... and he's got an electronics repair shop and all the kids hang out at his shop. He has this Chinese accent and he calls the Goonies the Groonies, and so the new kids call themselves the Groonies, until they get into a situation where the old Goonies have to save the new Groonies, or vice versa."

Donner would not say much more about the plot or the casting but said Astin's character, Mikey, would be prominent, and Jeff Cohen's Chunk would return.

"He is a lawyer now, you know," Donner said of Cohen. "He graduated UC Berkeley Law School top of his class and he's now a practicing lawyer here in [Hollywood] and phenomenal. Damn right we'll see him. I'm very proud of every one of those kids. They all turned out great."

"The Goonies," which also starred Martha Plimpton ("Beautiful Girls") and Joe Pantoliano ("The Sopranos"), centered on a group of teenagers who stumble upon a map of pirate "One-Eyed" Willy's hidden fortune.

Dazed and Confused!

-JiM

damn jim you beat me to it.....definitely Dazed and Confused....

well alright, alright, alright!...

but Goonies is a top pick as well.....

A 4-year bump!

I want to be Ferris Bueller when I grow up.

Cameron was an idiot.

Sixteen candles was the best one.

Jay

sixteen candles....this movie got me laid back when i was 15....

sixteen candles....this movie got me laid back when i was 15....

that was duct tape and roofies for me. how did Grease not make the list? :dunno:

Missing option: Better Off Dead

Funny as hell and some great lines you can quote from.
"I want my 2 dollars"
"I've been going to this high school for seven and a half years. I'm no dummy. I know high school girls. "
"Now that's a real shame when folks be throwin' away a perfectly good white boy like that. "
"Gee, I'm really sorry your mom blew up, Ricky, guess she won't be able to eat any spicy foods for awhile. "

superbad. mcLovin is awesome.

ferris bueller's day off is just too good not to win. Any movie that allowed the spawning of a show like parker lewis can't lose is the best.

Ferris of course but i had to vote for Risky Business because the idea of Rebeccca Demornay on the stairs is just that good. or on the train. or the chair. or that pool table in her version of "and God created women"

she still looks pretty good now.

wierd science.

those were all good, funny movies, but Cruel Intentions was a better, well written movie.

Risky business was great one.

Eurotrip!

Fast and the Furious I, II, III. :uhh:

Fast and the Furious is considered the holy bible by many so it doesn't count.

Eurotrip is one of my fave movies ever - but it is not 80's

I had to vote Breakfast Club.

Breakfast Club
Weird Science
Fast Times at RH
Valley Girl
Porky's
Better off Dead

Of the choices, I voted for Ferris. But, and I am showing my age here, American Graffitti is a great teenage movie!!