Quote Originally Posted by Auricauricle
Tom Cruise had the movie scene locked up, IMO. Every boy wanted to be him, every girl wanted to be Rebecca de Mornay.
Every guy wanted to be like Joel (in the movie) and every guy wanted every girl to be Rebecca de Mornay

Speaking of de Mornay, while she was perfectly beguiling in Risky Bidness, she was a spotty actress in everything else I've seen her in.

As for teen flicks, remember when most of the '50s movies about teens were horror flicks? Oh, there were a few exceptions, like Rebel Without A Cause or other 'rebel' type movies with the roles of teens played by people in their late 20s, early 30s.

And don't forget 16 Candles starring once again, Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall (actually, I think this movie predates Breakfast Club). Its hard to buy the teen angst thing from such shiny, pristine rich people.

The oft used plot device in '80s teen flicks was the unrequited love story where protagonist secretly loves the unobtainable popular kid while their opposite sex best friend is secretly in love with the protagonist; Somekind Of Wonderful is another Huges film that gets somewhat overlooked, while at the same time, it may be his best stab at the unrequited love angle. Another movie in a similar vein was The Last American Virgin, with its tagline of "See it or be it!", you'd think just another teen sexploitation film, but the story is much different, the protagonist is actually likable, and the ending is the kind of punch in the nuts that makes you hate the opposite sex.