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Top 5 High School Flicks


h1 September 2nd, 2005

I love - LOVE - high school movies. I love the setting, the drama, and the comedy in films that take place against the backdrop of that most confusing of times, high school. And these are my top five:

5. Clueless - I know I’ll get a lot of crap for this one, especially when I’m picking it over Heckerling’s other brilliant high school film, Fast Times at Ridgemont High. I don’t care - Clueless perfectly captures the mid-90s high school scene, in an over-blown, exaggerated way that makes it hilarious. Besides, I’m from California - I’m, like, totally just LIKE Cher. Favorite line:

“Ms. Stoeger, my plastic surgeon doesn’t want me doing any activities where balls fly at my nose.”
“Well, there goes your social life.”
4. 10 Things I Hate About You - A completely brilliant high school adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew. If you’ve seen this movie and don’t like it, I can only assume you are a snob, because this movie has it all: a trashy-romance writing guidance counselor, drunken dancing, love triangles, a fabulous soundtrack, jack*sses getting their comeuppance, and a pre-balding Heath Ledger singing a love song while evading school security. Favorite lines:

“Clever, kangaroo boy. Says here you exposed yourself in the cafeteria?”
“I was joking with the lunch lady. It was a bratwurst.”
“Bratwurst? Aren’t we the optimist? Next time, keep it in your pouch, okay?”
AND
“Hello Katarina. Make anybody cry today?”
“Sadly, no. But it’s only 4:30.”

3. Heathers - The classic dark high school film… and also completely hilarious. Christian Slater and Winona Ryder were particularly amazing, although the rest of cast is fabulous too. I especially love the bizarre scenes with Winona’s parents. Best lines:

“Greetings and salutations”
AND
“I love my dead gay son!”

2. Dazed and Confused - Everyone loves this movie; it’s impossible not to. The guys are cool, the girls are hot, and we get to see Ben Affleck get paint dumped all over him. Awesome. On top of this, the movie does a great job of capturing the era (according to my mom, who has vague recollections of the 70s), and makes us all wish we were in high school back then. Best line:

“What are you looking at? Wipe that face off your head, bitch!”

1. The Breakfast Club - You can’t be surprised. In order to be fair, I had to limit the number of John Hughes/Molly Ringwald movies that could be on this list… and this one is by far the best. The movie does an amazing job of capturing the cliques and alliances that form in high school, the pressures of living up to expectations, and the “sameness” of everyone. You know the best line already, but I’m putting it here anyways:

Dear Mr. Vernon: We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it is we did wrong, but we think you’re crazy for making us write an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us: in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain, and an athlete, and a basket case, a princess, and a criminal. Does that answer your question? Sincerely yours, The Breakfast Club.


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