The 50 Best Teen Movies
41) Jennifer’s Body (2009)
"Hell is a teenage girl." That's the central point of Karyn Kusama's mis-sold and under-appreciated – and now, thankfully, re-appraised – comedy-horror. Marketed to men as a lecherous Megan Fox vehicle, it's really a raucous treatise on adolescent female friendships – Amanda Seyfried is Needy, the bookish high-schooler whose longtime best friend Jennifer (Fox) becomes a literal demonic man-eater after being ritually sacrificed by a whiny emo band. Like a long-lost feature-length Buffy episode, it's a funny and freaky high school metaphor boasting great performances (from Fox especially), and crackling dialogue from Diablo Cody, whose intentionally over-cranked teen-speak is perhaps more suited to this than the more-celebrated Juno. Go on, give it a re-watch.Read The Empire Review
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6) Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
Every teenager has dreamed of ditching school to embark on the ultimate skive day, but few have dreamed big enough to do it quite like Ferris Bueller. Matthew Broderick's defining role a smooth, super slick skivemeister, whose verbal jujitsu can extricate him from almost any situation. He's also smug, superior, and almost entirely insufferable — our eternal sypathies to long-suffereing sister Jean "Shauna" Bueller. But despite all that, Ferris is impossible not to root for — he is, as the sportos, motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, waistoids, dweebies and dickheads will attest, a righteous dude. John Hughes' fourth film is part deep dive into teenage fantasy, part love-letter to Chicago, as Sloane (Mia Sara), Cameron (Alan Ruck) and Ferris spend their stolen day sightseeing in a stolen Ferrari, tearing it up on a parade float and masquerading as the city's sausage king. It's the movie Hughes is most famous for and a gloriously bold, fourth-wall-breaking paean to the art of slacking off. Leisure rules. Read The Empire Review
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