3º – The Breakfast Club (John Hughes, 1985)
Five teenagers, for various reasons, are being held in detention at a school. Having to stay the whole afternoon in the place, the five, each representing some stereotype of the time, will learn a little about the histories of life of its companions. A film that remains current even today, showing teenage dramas of various layers and types of individuals.
2º – Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Amy Heckerling, 1982)
The plot is simple, trying to unravel the day-to-day life of a group of teenagers from a California school in their quest for what is most common in the troubled period in humans. The film rules a carefree aura, providing the viewer with the most common and fun elements of teenage films of the time. ‘Fast Times at Ridgemont High’ still gives us one of the most celebrated characters of the decade, the misfit Jeff Spicoli, played by Sean Penn.
1º – Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, 2015)
We will enter into the lives of Greg, a creative and focused teenager who spends his days in the school without making himself known to others, his friend Earl, a sort of mirror of his friend’s constructs, and Rachel, a teenager who recently discovered cancer. The film has an assertive rhythm, exploring every nuance of adolescence in the American context, separating its history into two distinct strands, one cheerful and the other dealing with the pain of certain facts of the plot.
