Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
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…
Young Ones, The (TV Series) (1982-1984)- Feat. Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Nigel Planer…
- Off–the–wall, anarchic 80s sitcom about young rebels (liberal Rik, punk Vyvian, hippy Neil and bodgy Mike) co–habitating in a…
Burning, The (1981)- Dir. Tony Maylam
Feat. Brian Matthews, Leah Ayres, Brian Backer… - A proficient slasher in the wake of FRIDAY THE 13TH in which a former summer camp caretaker plots bloody revenge on the teenagers who accidentally…
Endless Love (1981)- Dir. Franco Zeffirelli
Feat. Brooke Shields - Brooke Shields is the saving grace of this fiasco made of Scott Spencer's acclaimed novel about an obsessive teenage romance.
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