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Teen Wolf Too
Teen Wolf Too is a 1987 American comedy-fantasy film directed by Christopher Leitch. It stars Jason Bateman and James Hampton, but was a critical and commercial failure.
The Breakfast Club
The Breakfast Club (1985) is John Hughes' teen comedy-drama about five students (the brain, athlete, basket case, princess, and criminal) in Saturday detention; a Brat Pack landmark that earned $51.5 million and entered the National Film Registry in 2016.
The Last American Virgin
The Last American Virgin is a 1982 American teen sex comedy written and directed by Boaz Davidson for Cannon Films, an American rework of his Israeli hit Lemon Popsicle.
The Sure Thing
The Sure Thing (1985) is Rob Reiner's romantic comedy road movie starring John Cusack and Daphne Zuniga, a cross-country college trip often compared to It Happened One Night; earned $18,135,531 and 81% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Three O'Clock High
Three O'Clock High (3 O'Clock High) is a 1987 American teen comedy directed by Phil Joanou, starring Casey Siemaszko and Richard Tyson, about a student forced into a 3 p.m. parking-lot fight, filmed at Ogden High School, Utah.
Troop Beverly Hills
Troop Beverly Hills is a 1989 American comedy directed by Jeff Kanew, starring Shelley Long as Phyllis Nefler, a wealthy housewife leading her daughter's Wilderness Girls troop; a box-office flop that became a cult hit, now getting a TriStar sequel.
Uncle Buck
Uncle Buck (1989) is a John Hughes comedy starring John Candy as a bachelor babysitting his nieces and nephew in Chicago; it opened number one, grossing $11.9 million in five days, and spawned a short-lived CBS sitcom.
Valley Girl (1983 film)
Valley Girl (1983), Martha Coolidge's Romeo-and-Juliet teen romance starring Deborah Foreman and a young Nicolas Cage, cost $350,000, grossed $17 million, and defined 1980s Valley youth culture and its new wave soundtrack.
Weird Science (film)
Weird Science (1985) is a John Hughes teen sci-fi comedy for Universal, starring Anthony Michael Hall, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, and Kelly LeBrock as Lisa, a computer-created perfect woman; released August 2, 1985, Metascore 46, later a 1994 sitcom.
Zapped!
Zapped! is a 1982 American teen sex comedy directed by Robert J. Rosenthal, starring Scott Baio as a student who gains telekinetic powers from a lab accident.