Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Everyone has had that senioritis-feeling before of "How can they possibly expect me to handle school on a day like this?" The sun is shining and school is simply not an option for the day. Ferris Bueller has just this "dilemma" in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off." He knows he has to get his "sick" best friend out of bed, spring his girlfriend out of school and live by the philosophy: "What AREN'T we going to do today?" Ferris and his friends set out to conquer Chicago in a day and take on parades, museums, the Sear's Tower, a Cubs game and everything else they can get caught up in. Ferris knows it is his ninth and final sick day, so he better make it count.

Breakfast Club

Saturdays are not meant to be school days. Unfortunately for five students in "The Breakfast Club," this Saturday finds them stuck in school the whole day for detention. Each student comes from a different clique and does not normally associate with the others, but for one day, they find that the others are their only means of survival. As the day wears on, each of the students' walls begins to come down, brick by brick, and they discover that they are truly not so different from one another. They find that each of them is "a brain, and an athlete, and a basket case, a princess, and a criminal."

Weird Science

In today's computer driven world, "Weird Science" is a funny look at what a mess computers can get one into. Wyatt and Gary are two computer geeks who cannot break into the popular scene. Then one day, they discover a way to "create" their popularity. Using their computer, Wyatt and Gary create "Lisa," the perfect woman whose total devotion to Wyatt and Gary and her perfect body are the boys' ticket to cool parties and popularity. Lisa gets the guys everything they need to be "cool" and then helps them talk the talk and walk the walk to coolness. The problem is that the guys stumble over their words and can't seem to get the walk down either. Lisa has to bail them out of all sorts of interesting situations on their way to popularity.

Sixteen Candles

In the midst of crazy adolescence, many girls look forward to their "Sweet 16," the passing from awkwardness into womanhood. In "Sixteen Candles," Samantha has been looking forward to this day through all the craziness in her life. Samantha has a crush on the most popular boy, but it is the school geek who has a crush on her; Samantha has no privacy because family has invaded the house for her sister's marriage; and on top of everything else, everyone is too busy to remember Samantha's Sweet 16. With the help of a lame school dance, a foreign exchange student named Long Duc Dong and the biggest "parents-are-out-of-town-for-the-weekend" party of the year, Samantha's 16th birthday turns out to be pretty sweet after all.

Pretty In Pink

Not every teen movie is about the perfect, popular kids. In "Pretty In Pink," Andie is a girl who does not fit the mold of many of the high school cliques. That is okay with her, though, because she has her friends Iona and Duckie with whom Andie is quite content to hang out. Things begin to get a little uncomfortable when Blane moves to town. Blane is one of those kids who could fit into any group. He's rich, handsome and fits in with the popular crowd that Andie never felt comfortable with because she lives on the other side of the tracks. Andie sees something in Blane, though, and develops a crush on him. When she tells her friends about it, Duckie becomes jealous because he has always had a secret crush on Andie. Can two people from opposite sides of the tracks make it work, or will Andie realize that she has had a secret crush on Duckie, too? No matter what the outcome, one thing is for sure; at her prom, Andie will be the one who is "pretty in pink."

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