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1. Pump Up the Volume (1990) R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Music. 7.2. Rate. 77 Metascore. Mark runs a pirate radio station and causes an uproar when he speaks his mind and enthralls fellow teens. Director: Allan Moyle | Stars: Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis, Anthony Luke Lucero, Andy Romano. Votes: 31,115 | Gross: $11.54M. 2. Cry-Baby (1990)
1. Pump Up the Volume (1990) R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Music. 7.2. Rate. 77 Metascore. Mark runs a pirate radio station and causes an uproar when he speaks his mind and enthralls fellow teens. Director: Allan Moyle | Stars: Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis, Anthony Luke Lucero, Andy Romano. Votes: 31,124 | Gross: $11.54M. 2. Cry-Baby (1990)
- Drive Me Crazy
- Pump Up The Volume
- House Party
- Good Burger
- Camp Nowhere
- Angus
- Welcome to The Dollhouse
- Newsies
- Now and Then
- October Sky
In the midst of her stint on Sabrina The Teenage Witch, Melissa Joan Hart starred in Drive Me Crazyas Nicole — an overachieving sweetheart who cooks up a scheme with her very antisocial neighbor (Adrian Grenier) to attract the attention of their respective crushes... only to discover they might just like each other. Plus, the title was taken from t...
Christian Slater was at the peak of his dreamboat phase in 1990, just one year after he’d appeared in Heathers. In Pump Up the Volume, he stars as Mark Hunter, a teenager who struggles to find his place at his school and instead dedicates himself to the pirate radio station he’s set up in his basement. Although he broadcasts anonymously, his identi...
This electric film does what it says on the tin: invites viewers into the most enjoyable house party imaginable. The movie is bursting with music and energy, and appropriately, it stars two musicians — Kid and Play of hip-hop duo Kid ‘n Play — as well as up-and-coming Black actors including Martin Lawrence and Tisha Campbell. The film spawned multi...
Sketch-comedy legend Kenan Thompson got his start on Nickelodeon’s sketch series All That, which was so popular that the network rushed Good Burger into development in January 1997; it would be released six months later. The film pits a small burger joint (the titular “Good Burger”) against the threat of the expanding and nefarious burger chain Mon...
Do you dream about going away with your friends where no real-life distractions can impede your good time? That's basically the plot of Camp Nowhere, except the friends are all minors who probably should have a couple of chaperones. The film revolves Mud Himmel (Jonathan Jackson), a teenager whose parents try to send him to computer camp — a horrif...
It’s still unusual to see films about teenagers or adults focus on plus-sized characters, and Angus, a thoughtful, kind-hearted film, remains refreshing. Teenage boy Angus (Charlie Talbert) has endured years of bullying at the hands of a “popular” kid due to his weight, and his well-meaning but clueless family isn’t any help. Over the course of the...
This offbeat coming-of-age dramedy, written and directed by Todd Solondz, presents an unflinching look at the earliest stage of adolescence. Tween Dawn (Heather Matarazzo) is a social reject who desperately wants to be older than she is. She pines for her elder brother’s handsome, romantically unavailable tutor and sabotages her one real friendship...
This Disney musical was a major flop when it was released: Critics panned it and it bombed at the box office. It found life, however, on home video, where it quickly became a beloved favorite of a generation of children who nursed crushes on a young Christian Bale. Despite its somewhat camp trappings — after all, it is a musical feature Christian B...
This sweet coming-of-age film focuses on four 12-year-old girls in a small town in the ‘70s, played by Gaby Hoffmann, Thora Birch, Christina Ricci, and Ashleigh Ashton Moore. The girls all deal with familiar elements of adolescence, from developing breasts to overprotective parents — things that viewers will no doubt find familiar, but that feel se...
October Skymoves at a calmer pace than some of these other movies and is perhaps not as showy, but those qualities are exactly what makes it so winning. The film is a biopic of Homer Hickam (Jake Gyllenhaal), a NASA engineer who grew up coal country in West Virginia. Like every other young man in town — and like his father before him — Homer is exp...
53 Metascore. A high school grad and a hooker-in-training try to track down his stolen Corvette. Director: Matthew Robbins | Stars: Mark Hamill, Annie Potts, Eugene Roche, William Bryant. Votes: 3,861 | Gross: $15.50M. 3. Ice Castles (1978) PG | 108 min | Drama, Romance, Sport. 6.5. Rate. 51 Metascore.
Sep 6, 2023 · 1970s: Grease. Paramount Pictures. Grease is without a doubt the dominant teen movie of the 1970s. Despite the actors' blatant appearance of being aged out of high school, the late-70s...
Apr 2, 2017 · Chosen by BuzzFeed readers like YOU. We polled BuzzFeed readers to find out which classic '90s teen movie is their all time favorite. Here are the results: 17. Idle Hands. Why it's timeless:...
Apr 27, 2022 · These are the 55 best teen movies of all time, ranked. Updated on April 27, 2022: New teen movies hit theaters every year. We'll be keeping an eye on the genre and adding any fresh classics to ...
