OT: Best High School Movie

[Horatio]

 

[cohenzone]

Wow, I mean there are some good ones listed, but page 2 before we got to this one??

The Breakfast Club

Terrific movie.

 

[meyers7]

Something from this century.

Easy A

 

[LesMis89]

Best High School movie and this one's not listed?

 

[SCGamecock]

More recent.

I’m a millennial, so this is an iconic film to me. Instant favorite.

It’s our “The Breakfast Club”.

 

[RegisteredUconn]

 

[nwhoopfan]

 

[nwhoopfan]

I thought this was a fun movie with a lot of heart.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Since Karate Kid showed up, why not? Kind of an update, w/ MMA fighting.

 

[Bigboote]

Several of my faves have been posted -- Better off Dead, Easy A, Clueless. Here's another:

 

[RegisteredUconn]

 

[Sonny44]

 

[RSHERMVIKES]

VISION QUEST Matthew Modine (best HS wrestling picture made)
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[nwhoopfan]

This was really good. About an ex-con becoming a mentor to some high school students and trying to help them avoid the mistakes he made, all while teaching them to play chess.

 

[TitleTown]

high school sports movies could be another whole thread, there's a bunch of good ones in that category too

I'm shocked that the greatest high school sports movie of all time has not been posted yet. Also happens to have one of the greatest musical scores of any movie.

 

[CL82]

Well, this will tell you my kids ages, but should be somewhere on the list?

 

[TerpWomenFan]

The movie had three of the funniest scenes I've ever seen in a comedy.

 

[Geew1992]

Coach Carter

 

[TerpWomenFan]

 

[Bama fan]

Something from this century.

Easy A

Is there a new century? I missed it!

 

[Bama fan]

This one is from an old century!

 

[trb123]

 

[Ozimoto]

If you want to include high school sports movies then I would add "All the Right Moves" with Tom Cruise before he got huge and Lea Thompson and the "Friday Night Lights" since it pretty much sums up what life was like growing up in small town America where high school football is THE sporting event (as I well know from growing up in Western Maryland, although Texas takes this to a whole different level).

 

[nwhoopfan]

I've got two kind of obscure films that were both really good, almost the same plot but one is about a robotics club and the other a cross country team. Both are fairly poor school districts with mostly underprivileged students, not really used to having people believe in them or expect greatness from them. Until the right person comes along. Both are heartwarming. I believe both are based on true stories as well.

 

[nwhoopfan]

 

[nwhoopfan]

Good baseball movie. Small budget indie but it's got some people in it who have been in some big films.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Maybe a bit of a "Heathers" knockoff.

 

[meyers7]

Is there a new century? I missed it!

There's a whole new millennium.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Documentaries count, right? Just thought of this one. It was fairly eye opening when I was younger, about how upcoming prospects can be told what they want to hear and strung along, then cast aside if it doesn't pan out.

 

[nwhoopfan]

You can't go back again. This thread inspired me to revisit some films from the 80's. They haven't held up very well, at least in my opinion. Watched Breakfast Club, Better Off Dead and Ferris Bueller. Nostalgia does funny things to your mind.