Category: Teen Movies Through the Years
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**Spoilers contained within. 56 year old film. Read at your own risk** Bye Bye Birdie has been made and remade dozens of times since the show’s initial Broadway run in the early 1960s. The first time was a musical in 1962, starting hot, young newcomer Ann-Margret alongside Dick Van Dyke and Paul Lynde. The film,…
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Molly Ringwald truly struck a chord with audiences in the 1980s. This is the decade when the “Brat Pack” took Hollywood by storm in films like: The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo’s Fire, as well as separately in movie like Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink and Weird Science. Of the nurmerous Molly Ringwald solo pics, Pretty in Pink has…
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I spent far too many years of university studying teen movies, and teen culture. Perhaps, this explains the pop culture heavy focus in my writing during the lean post-graduation years. For this idea for a new segment, I wanted to focus on teen movies through the decades. First up, I’d like to focus on a…
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There’s a few quintessential 90’s teen movies, Clueless, American Pie and 10 Things I Hate About You are entries that have lived into infinity, defining the genre for the generation. There’s one film, which was quite dear for those of us late 1980s and early 1990s kids, which hasn’t quite held the same name recognition as some of…
