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Subgenre Sampler
Rumble Fish (1983)
- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Dennis Hopper… - Coppola's cult fave is a highly stylised treatment of a teen delinquency drama may not be entirely appropriate, but it sure looks impressive. Equally…
Suburbia (Rebel Street's aka: Wild Side) (1983)
- Dir. Penelope Spheeris
Feat. Flea - Low key yet definitive dramatic portrait of the American punk scene, staged with non–actors as the "T.R. gang" who set up camp in a scuzzy L.A.…
Sweet Sixteen (1983)- Dir. Jim Sotos
Feat. Aleisa Shirley, Bo Hopkins, Susan Strasberg… - Forgotten slasher from the 80's that instead slashes the boys instead of the girls, when a soon–to–be sixteen–year–old girl…
Valley Girl (1983)- Dir. Martha Coolidge
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Deborah Foreman, Elizabeth Daily… - One of the coolest teen flicks of the early 80s exults a first starring role for Nicolas Cage as a Hollywood punk who crashes a suburban party and…
Diner (1982)- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Mickey Rourke, Ellen Barkin, Kevin Bacon… - Endearing, and enduring, tale of college friends growing up in the 1950s Baltimore was a box–office flop but soon found an enthusiastic…
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)- Dir. Amy Heckerling
Feat. Jennifer Jason Leigh, Sean Penn, Judge Reinhold… - This early–80s teen pic survives a lot better than most, finding surprisingly subtle shades of the adolescent experience amid some frank…
Grease 2 (1982)- Dir. Patricia Brich
Feat. Maxwell Caulfield, Michelle Pfeiffer - Enjoyably bad reprise of the hit musical of 50s High School Americana, still gets by with a handful of good tunes and Michelle Pffiefer.
Smithereens (1982)- Dir. Susan Seidelman
Feat. Richard Hell - Hanging out on the lower rung of the gritty New York music scene in the early 80s, a flaky adolescent girl struggles to make her mark or find…
Square Pegs (TV Series) (1982-1983)- Feat. Sarah Jessica Parker, Amy Linker, Jami Gertz…
- Sassy high school comedy from the early 1980's centred around Sarah Jessica Parker and Amy Linker as two awkward teenage girls desperate to be…
Tex (1982)- Dir. Tim Hunter
Feat. Matt Dillon, Jim Metzler, Meg Tilly… - Arguably the best adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s teen fictions (THE OUTSIDERS etc.), with Matt Dillon giving an early, heartbreaking performance as a…
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