Items23The creator’s order
  1. 1Election (1999)Election (1999) 7.2/10 on IMDbReleased Apr 23, 1999The sharpest film here about ambition, and the one that changes most when you rewatch it as an adult. Reese Witherspoon's Tracy Flick is the overprepared student running for student government president, Matthew Broderick is the civics teacher who decides to stop her, and Alexander Payne makes it…0
  2. 2Mean Girls (2004)Mean Girls (2004) 7.1/10 on IMDbReleased Apr 30, 2004Tina Fey wrote it after reading Rosalind Wiseman's self-help book Queen Bees and Wannabes, a guide to how teenage girls build and police cliques, and the research shows. Lindsay Lohan's Cady arrives at a new school, is adopted by the Plastics, and discovers that taking them down means becoming one…0
  3. 3Clueless (1995)Clueless (1995) 6.9/10 on IMDbReleased Jul 19, 1995Amy Heckerling loosely moved Jane Austen's Emma to a Beverly Hills high school, and the result is the smartest "dumb" comedy ever made about a rich girl learning she is not the center of the universe. Alicia Silverstone's Cher is a meddling matchmaker who is somehow lovable rather than…0
  4. 4Heathers (1989)Heathers (1989) 7.1/10 on IMDbReleased Mar 31, 1989The pitch-black answer to every cozy clique movie. Winona Ryder's Veronica is tired of serving the three Heathers who run her school, and Christian Slater's brooding new boyfriend offers her a far more permanent way out. Daniel Waters's script treats murder, suicide and the media's appetite for…0
  5. 5Rushmore (1998)Rushmore (1998) 7.6/10 on IMDbReleased Dec 11, 1998Wes Anderson's comedy, co-written with Owen Wilson, is about a 15-year-old scholarship student at a private academy who is flunking his classes while running nearly every club on campus. Jason Schwartzman, in his film debut, makes Max Fischer infuriating and impossible not to root for, and Bill…0
  6. 6Superbad (2007)Superbad (2007) 7.6/10 on IMDbReleased Aug 17, 2007Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg wrote the script as teenagers, and you can tell: the panic, the bravado and the sheer amount of talking are exactly right. Jonah Hill and Michael Cera play best friends trying to get alcohol to a party before they head off to different colleges, and Christopher…0
  7. 7Booksmart (2019)Booksmart (2019) 7.1/10 on IMDbReleased May 24, 2019Olivia Wilde's directing debut flips the usual party movie. Two overachieving best friends, played by Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever, realize on the eve of graduation that they should have worked less and played more, and try to cram four years of fun into one night. It is fast, warm and…0
  8. 8Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) 7.8/10 on IMDbReleased Jun 11, 1986John Hughes's ode to skipping school reads differently to adults, who notice that Ferris's charm is mostly a con and that the real story belongs to his anxious best friend Cameron, played by Alan Ruck. Matthew Broderick talks straight to camera, the day tours the landmarks of Chicago, and Jeffrey…0
  9. 9Dazed and Confused (1993)Dazed and Confused (1993) 7.6/10 on IMDbReleased Sep 24, 1993Richard Linklater's hangout comedy follows a crowd of Texas teenagers on the last day of school in 1976, from the hazing of incoming freshmen to a keg party in a field. There is barely a plot, which is exactly the point: it remembers how a single night could feel endless and how little anyone was…0
  10. 10Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) 7.1/10 on IMDbReleased Aug 13, 1982Cameron Crowe went undercover as a student at a San Diego high school and turned the year into a book, then this script, and that reporting is why the kids feel like real teenagers rather than movie ones. Amy Heckerling's directing debut juggles mall jobs, first sexual experiences and Sean Penn's…0