Weird Science (1985)
The Teens: Gary Wallace (Anthony Michael Hall) and W�🍸�yatt Donnelly (Ilan Mitchell-Smith).
The Trouble: Bullied geeks who use their technological savvy to create 🅷the perfect woman.🅘 Amazingly, it works.
How Is It Resolved? Lisa u༺ses her supernatural powers to build the boys' self-esteem and 💦help them to get real girlfriends.
Sample Quote: "Maybe it was a dream, you know, a very weird, ꦕbizarre, vivid, erotic, wet, detailed dream. Maybe we have malaria."
Submarine (2010)
The Teen: Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts).
The Trouble: Oliver is convinced that his mum ꦕis two-timing his morose☂ dad by having an affair with New Age guru Graham.
How Is It Resolved? Oliver breaks into Graham's house and goes on a destructive rampage&helli🔯p; which proves to b🦋e enough to force a reconciliation between his parents.
Sample Quote: "My mum gave a handjob to a mystic."
WarGames (1983)
The Teen: David Lightman (Matthew Broderick).
The Trouble: Early comp🌸uter hacker who is so ahead of t✅he curve he accidentally initiates a Global Thermonuclear War.
How Is It Resolved? David convinces comp🃏uter Joshua that there can be no winner in a nuclear war by forcing it to plaꦜy endless games of noughts and crosses.
Sample Quote: "H﷽ey, I don't believe that any system is totally secure."
Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)
The Teen: Jeff Spicoli (Sean Penn).
The Trouble: Stoner and surfer whose couldn't-givꦅe-a-fuck attitude make him a hero to classmates but a source of endless irritation to teachꦬer Mr Hand.
How Is It Resolved? Mr Hand gets payback on the night of the prom, forcing Jeff into an eight🌃-hour tuiti൩on session to make up for the time he's wasted during the year.
Sample Quote: "Surfing's not a s🍸port, it's a way of life, it's no hobby. It's a way of looking at that wave and saying, 'Hey bud, let's party!'"
Clueless (1995)
The Teen: Cher Horowitz (Alicia Silverstone).
The Trouble: Queen Bee who turns into a benign busybody when she decides to play 𒅌matchmaker and mentor to teachers and fellow students.
How Is It Resolved? With shopping, after 𝄹which Cher realises she 🧔needs to sort her own life out and begins dating ex-stepbrother Josh.
Sample Quote: "Th🌜at's Ren and Stimpy. They're way existential."
Dazed And Confused (1993)
The Teen: Mike Newhouse (Adam Goldberg).
The Trouble: Geek♛ who decides he's had enough of being a social outcast on the last day of school, and becomes determined to gatecrash the evening's entertainment at a hilltop keg party.
How Is It Resolved? Mike starts a fight🃏 with the thuggish Clint, wrongly assuming that partygoers will break it up. They don't, and he gets his ass kicked.
Sample Quote: "What everybody in this ca🃏r needs is some good ol' worthw🍃hile visceral experience."
The Sure Thing (1985)
The Teen: Walter Gibson (John Cusack).
The Trouble: Gib' hꩵas a sure thing in California. Now he just needs to get there, except his travelling companion is uptight Alison Bradbury.
How Is It Resolved? Inevitably, Gib rea🎃lises that Alison is a much surer thing than the superficial ho𒀰ttie he had his eye on.
Sample Quote: "How would you like to have a sexual 𒊎encounter so intense it could conceivabꦺly change your political views?"
Grease (1978)
The Teen: Danny Zuko (John Travolta).
The Trouble: What's a T-bird 🧔to do when he's spent the summer falling in love with Sandy? Obviously, he's got to behave like a jerk and pretend that it was just summer lovin'.
How Is It Resolved? Sandy toughens uꩲp, dons leather and drives ofᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚf with Danny in a flying car.
Sample Quote: 🌃"Why, this car is Auto-matic. Its System-matic. Its Hyyyyydro-matic. Why, its Greased Lightning!"
Election (1999)
The Teen: Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon).
The Trouble: Uber-ambitious high school politician obsesse💞d with becoming student president. Is she trouble.. or does bitter teacher Jim McAllister just think she is?
How Is It Resolved? ♕ Jim's attempts to rig the election backfire and Tracy takes her first steps into what will presumably become a high-powered political career.
Sample Quote: 🌄 "You can't interfere with destiny, that's🌌 why it's destiny."
American Pie (1999)
The Teen: Steve Stifler (Seann William Scott).
The Trouble: All Jim, Kevin, Oz and Finch want to ꦰdo is get laid. Not easy when Stifler is busy heckling them from the s♏idelines.
How Is It Resolved? The joke's on Stifler, after his drink is spiked with semen and then Finch shags Stifler's 🌳MILF-tastic mom.
Sample Quote: "I say, why don't you guys locate your dicks, remove the shrink wrap, and fucking use the🍷m!"
