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A Christmas Story
A Christmas Story (1983) is Bob Clark's holiday comedy based on Jean Shepherd's In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash, starring Peter Billingsley as Ralphie Parker seeking a Red Ryder air rifle; a 2012 National Film Registry selection.
Adventures in Babysitting
Adventures in Babysitting: 1987 Touchstone comedy, Chris Columbus's directing debut, starring Elisabeth Shue as a babysitter stranded in Chicago with the Anderson kids; 102 min, PG-13, remade by Disney Channel in 2016.
Bachelor Party (1984 film)
Bachelor Party (1984) is a Neal Israel sex comedy starring Tom Hanks as Rick Gassko, a school bus driver whose stag night before marrying Debbie (Tawny Kitaen) spirals into chaos; it grossed $38.4 million for 20th Century Fox.
Better Off Dead (1985 film)
Better Off Dead is a 1985 American teen comedy, the feature directing debut of Savage Steve Holland, starring John Cusack as Lane Meyer; a dark, surreal cult classic with claymation gags and the "two dollars" paperboy.
Blame It on Rio
Blame It on Rio (1984) is Stanley Donen's romantic comedy, remade from Claude Berri's Un moment d'égarement, starring Michael Caine, Joseph Bologna, Michelle Johnson, and Demi Moore; it grossed $18.6 million and was Donen's last feature.
Can't Buy Me Love (film)
Can't Buy Me Love is a 1987 American teen romantic comedy, also known by its original title Boy Rents Girl, directed by Steve Rash and starring Patrick Dempsey and Amanda Peterson; it grossed $31.6 million domestically on a $1.7 million budget and was remade in 2003 as Love Don't Cost a Thing.
Class (film)
Class is a 1983 American comedy film directed by Lewis John Carlino. It stars Rob Lowe and Jacqueline Bisset in a story set at a Chicago prep school.
Disciples of Hippocrates (ヒポクラテスたち)
Disciples of Hippocrates (ヒポクラテスたち) is a 1980 Japanese ensemble drama, 126 minutes, directed by Kazuki Omori about Kyoto medical students in clinical training; released by ATG, 3rd in Kinema Junpo Best Ten.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Ferris Bueller's Day Off is John Hughes's 1986 Paramount teen comedy starring Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, and Mia Sara, about a fake sick day spent touring Chicago; it grossed over $70 million and joined the National Film Registry in 2014.
For Keeps (film)
For Keeps (For Keeps?) is a 1988 TriStar comedy-drama directed by John G. Avildsen, starring Molly Ringwald and Randall Batinkoff as high schoolers who marry and keep their unplanned baby; 98 minutes, PG-13, $14.7 million gross.
Girls Just Want to Have Fun (film)
Girls Just Want to Have Fun is a 1985 New World Pictures teen comedy directed by Alan Metter, starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Helen Hunt as Chicago teens auditioning for the Dance TV show; Cyndi Lauper refused association with the film.
Hairspray (1988 film)
Hairspray is a 1988 American comedy film written and directed by John Waters, starring Ricki Lake as a teenager campaigning to integrate a Baltimore TV dance show.
Happy Ghost (开心鬼)
Happy Ghost (开心鬼) is a 1984 Hong Kong comedy-fantasy film directed by Clifton Ko for Cinema City, starring Raymond Wong as a Qing scholar's ghost; it cost HK$2 million, earned over HK$17 million, and spawned a five-film series (1984–1991).
Johnny Be Good
Johnny Be Good is a 1988 American comedy film directed by Bud Smith, starring Anthony Michael Hall as a high school quarterback courted by corrupt recruiters.
Just One of the Guys
Just One of the Guys is a 1985 American teen comedy in which Joyce Hyser's character disguises herself as a boy to prove sexism cost her an internship.
License to Drive
License to Drive is a 1988 American teen comedy directed by Greg Beeman, starring Corey Haim as a teenager who takes out a Cadillac after failing his driving test.
Little Darlings
Little Darlings is a 1980 Paramount comedy-drama directed by Ronald F. Maxwell, starring Tatum O'Neal and Kristy McNichol as rival 15-year-old campers who wager on who loses her virginity first; released 21 March 1980, rated R, 95 minutes.
Lucas (1986 film)
Lucas is a 1986 American teen comedy-drama, also known as a coming-of-age film, written and directed by David Seltzer, starring Corey Haim, Kerri Green, Charlie Sheen, and Winona Ryder, released by 20th Century Fox on March 28, 1986.
My Chauffeur
My Chauffeur is a 1986 American comedy directed and written by David Beaird, starring Deborah Foreman as Brentwood Limousine's first female chauffeur; it marked Penn and Teller's feature debut and grossed $4.8 million.
One Crazy Summer
One Crazy Summer is a 1986 American teen comedy written and directed by Savage Steve Holland, starring John Cusack, Demi Moore, and Bobcat Goldthwait; a Nantucket summer romp and follow-up to Better Off Dead.
Private Lessons (1981 film)
Private Lessons (1981) is an American sex comedy directed by Alan Myerson, starring Sylvia Kristel, Eric Brown, and Howard Hesseman; a blackmail plot around a teenage boy and his housemaid that grossed $26.2 million and spawned Private School.
Private School (film)
Private School (also known as Private School... for Girls) is a 1983 American teen sex comedy directed by Noel Black, starring Phoebe Cates, Betsy Russell, and Matthew Modine.
Real Genius
Real Genius is a 1985 American teen science-fiction comedy directed by Martha Coolidge, starring Val Kilmer as a prodigy student at a California institute for gifted teens.
Revenge of the Nerds
Revenge of the Nerds (1984) is a Jeff Kanew college comedy starring Robert Carradine and Anthony Edwards as nerd freshmen fighting the Alpha Beta fraternity at Adams College; a Fox hit grossing over $30 million that spawned sequels and later controversy.
Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise
Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise is a 1987 American comedy sequel directed by Joe Roth, following the Tri-Lambda fraternity to Fort Lauderdale.
Risky Business
Risky Business is a 1983 American comedy-drama directed by Paul Brickman, starring Tom Cruise as a high school senior who turns his parents' house into a brothel.
Sixteen Candles
Sixteen Candles (1984) is John Hughes's directorial debut teen comedy starring Molly Ringwald as Samantha Baker, whose family forgets her 16th birthday; it grossed over $25 million on a $6.5 million budget.
Some Kind of Wonderful (film)
Some Kind of Wonderful is a 1987 Paramount teen romantic comedy-drama directed by Howard Deutch and written and produced by John Hughes, a gender-reversed reworking of Pretty in Pink starring Eric Stoltz, Mary Stuart Masterson, and Lea Thompson, ending with Keith choosing Watts over Amanda Jones.
Teen Witch
Teen Witch is a 1989 American teen fantasy comedy film directed by Dorian Walker, in which an unpopular high-school girl gains witch powers on her sixteenth birthday.
Teen Wolf
Teen Wolf is a 1985 American comedy film in which Michael J. Fox plays a high schooler whose werewolf powers make him a basketball star.