Back to school, oh back to school… here are MillionairePlayboy.com’s Essential Seven movies all about school to help ease the pain of our readers who are saying goodbye to summer and gearing up for pencils, books, and teachers’ dirty looks.
7. Dazed and Confused
Director Richard Linklater took all of us back to the late seventies to show us a slice of life on the last day of school in Texas. This movie gave us Ben Affleck, Matthew McConaughey, and enough pot smoking to get you through the weekend completely derail your future young man! The clothes, the tunes, and the chicks (I keep getting older and they stay the same age!) make this an essential movie for celebrating being stuck in school.
6. 10 Things I Hate About You
Sharply written, and the film that made me take notice of Heath Ledger (and Julia Stiles) for the first time, it’s a satirical break down of the cliques and trials at a typical high school. Based on Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew, it was meant to be funny, not a documentary. The characters are fun, and the lessons on love and growing up are priceless. “Kissing?! Kissing is not what keeps me up to my elbows in placenta everyday!”
5. Breakfast Club
John Hughes best Brat Pack movie pits five different stereotypes in a Saturday detention to battle boredom, their reputations, and a twisted principal. At first their perceived differences keep them apart, but then their realized similarities bring them together. That and the weed hidden in Brian’s underwear.
4. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
John Hughes’ high school masterpiece is all about blowing off high school. Broderick breaks free from daily routine and narrates his way on a romp through Chicago while he should be in school. Abe Frohman would be proud.
3. American Pie
Pie can be credited with reinvigorating the teen sexploitation comedy that got lost in the early nineties. Packed with plenty of laughs, naked breasts, pursuit of defloweration and an early lesson on the perils of the internet, American Pie introduced us to Sean William Scott, Shannon Elizabeth, and Pastryphelia.
2. Heathers
Dark and mysterious even when it was originally released, this satire on the futility of life and social standing in the microcosm of an Ohio high school quickly became a cult favorite. There were talks of remakes, but really, with the over-sensitive mentality at work today, there’s no way a current day remake would still have the same bite as the original, and would only be an embarrassing failure. Did you have a brain tumor for breakfast?
1. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Fast Times was loosely based on real situations witnessed by a young Cameron Crow who went undercover as a student in the early eighties. Strong characters and funny dialogue make for a great film, but one of the hottest topless scenes in cinematic history make this one a lock as the best movie about school in human civilization. If you’ve never seen it, you need to stop what you’re doing right now, and watch it.
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