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My Five Favorite Teen Movies of the 1980s (Part Two: ‘85-’89)
The madness continues
The 1980s were, in my clearly biased opinion, the Golden Age of teen movies. Today I wrap up the list of my favorites from that most excellent era, this time covering the second half of the decade, 1985 through 1989. The list from the years 1980 to 1984 received a fair number of comments and suggestions both here and on Facebook, with my exclusion of Risky Business being the most mentioned. If you want to check out that first piece, you can find it below.
As I noted in that first article, the films from 1980 to 1984 coincided nicely with my four years of high school, both the best and worst time to be a teenager. Moving past those years, I was still a teen in 1985 and remained stubbornly immature well into my 20s (some would rudely say this has held true up to the present day), so I feel comfortable ranking these films through the lens of one who was a teen then.
I did notice a trend with the movies I list here, an overarching theme that was also partially present in the last list. In the…
