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If you were a teen 40 years ago, you’ll remember it was a fantastic time for movies about you, from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, which helped solidify the career of young Matthew
Broderick (see page 8), to films that introduced Tom Cruise, Keanu Reeves, Molly Ringwald and others! Here we take a look back.
FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH (1982) Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Nicolas Cage and Phoebe Cates star in this classic high-school comedy based on a book by young
Rolling Stone scribe Cameron
Crowe.
THE OUTSIDERS (1983) The cast of director Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s 1967 coming-of-age novel includes upand-comers Rob Lowe, Matt Dillon, Tom Cruise, Patrick Swayze, Ralph Macchio and Diane Lane.
RISKY BUSINESS (1983) The movie made Tom Cruise famous for his underwear dance to Bob Seger’s “Old Time Rock and Roll.”
SIXTEEN CANDLES (1984) Audiences fell in love with real-life 16-yearold Molly Ringwald as Samantha.
THE KARATE KID (1984) The first installment in what would become a martial-arts franchise stars Ralph Macchio as a teenager taught karate by the master Mr. Miyagi (Pat Morita).
FOOTLOOSE (1984) Put on your dancin’ shoes! Kevin Bacon is an urban Chicago high-school hotshot transplanted to the rural Midwest in this drama driven by
a groovin’ pop-rock soundtrack that includes the title track by Kenny Loggins.
THE BREAKFAST CLUB (1985) Director John Hughes’ “Brat Pack” ensemble classic, about a group of high-schoolers’ day in detention, made stars out of Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy.
BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985) Meet Michael J. Fox, the young actor who’d become forever identified with the movie’s time-traveling protagonist, Marty McFly.
DIRTY DANCING (1987) Nobody puts Baby in the corner! Not in a movie that stars Jennifer Grey as a teen vacationing with her parents in the Catskills, where her world collides with dance instructor Patrick Swayze.
BILL & TED’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE
(1989) Two slackers (Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter) travel through time to collect historical figures for their senior project in this fanciful sci-fi romp. Watch for a sequel, Bill & Ted Face the
Music, coming Aug. 21.