TEEN MOVIES
We loved in the 80s...
FAME
Young men and women audition for coveted spots at the New York High School of Performing Arts. Those who make it discover that it takes a lot of hard work to make it big. The kids grapple with heavy issues such as homosexuality, abortion, attempted suicide and illiteracy while dealing with the usual pressures of adolescence.
LAST AMERICAN VIRGIN
Pizza delivery boy Gary and his two friends David and hunky Rick are high schoolers out to lose their virginity any way they can. Gary falls for transfer student Karen who starts dating Rick. When Karen gets pregnant, Gary helps her through an abortion, and thinks that his concern has won her over, only to find she still pines for Rick.
KARATE KID
Daniel and his mother move to California where she has a new job, but Daniel quickly discovers that fitting in is harder than he thought. Daniel manages to talk his way out of some fights, but he is cornered by several who belong to the same karate school. As Daniel is passing out from the beating he sees Miyagi. The elderly gardener leaps into the fray and saves him. Miyagi teaches Daniel karate and arranges a fight at the all-valley tournament.
FOOTLOOSE
Kevin Bacon starred as a city teenager who moves to a small town where rock music and dancing have been banned.
BACK TO THE FUTURE
Michael J Fox starred as Marty Mcfly, a 17-year-old high school student, who is accidentally sent years into the past in a time-travelling machine invented by his close friend, the eccentric scientist Doc Brown.
16 CANDLES
Her special birthday. Overshadowed by her sister’s wedding, Samantha (Molly Ringwald) faces her 16th birthday with dread. Samantha has a crush on older boy Jake (Michael Schoeffling), but worries that her chastity will be a turnoff for the popular senior.
JUST ONE OF THE GUYS
Terry Griffith loses her high school’s writing competition, she’s convinced that it’s because she’s a girl. So Terry changes high schools and poses as a boy to prove her point. She soon makes friends with the boys at school, including the attractive Rick who becomes her new best friend. But her gender-swapping makes things difficult when she falls for him.
PRETTY IN PINK
A not so well to do girl must choose between the affections of dating her childhood sweetheart or a rich playboy.