Top 10 Teen Flicks

22 June 2010

Love them or hate them chick flicks and teen idols are growing ever popular with an audience of cinema goers and DVD addicts and to celebrate the release of new teen flick Surviving Summer featuring Hilary Duff out on DVD from the 21st June we thought we would take a look at the top 10 teen flicks of all time... enjoy!

10. The Princess Diaries (2001)

Starring Sound of Music star Julie Andrews; The Princess diaries tells the tale of Mia, an awkward San Francisco teenager who has just learned her deceased father was the crown prince of Genovia.

To keep the royal reigns from passing to another family due to a broken bloodline, the queen seeks the favor of her estranged granddaughter in hopes that she will take her father's place as the crown princess.

While Mia contemplates her future, her grandmother insists on turning her from a social misfit to a lady fit for the throne. What these two discover about each other is that blood is more important than bloodlines.

9. Clueless (1995)

Clueless; starring Alicia Silverstone, Stacey Dash and Brittany Murphy, one of the original teen films is loosely based on Jane Austen's 1815 novel, Emma. Set in Beverly Hills and a nearby high school. It was written and directed by Amy Heckerling and produced by Scott Rudin.

Cher (Alicia Silverstone) and Dionne (Stacey Dash), both named after "great singers of the past that now do infomercials," are pampered upper-class girls who care less about getting good grades than wearing the right clothes and being as popular as possible.

But Cher also has an innate urge to help those less fortunate -- like the two introverted teachers she brings together ("negotiating" herself improved grades in the process) and new friend Tai (Brittany Murphy), who starts out a geek and ends up a Cher prodigy.

Cher also possesses her own sensitive side, and she is looking for the perfect boyfriend, whom she ends up finding where she least expected.

8. Never Been Kissed (1999)

Drew Barrymore stars as a reporter who goes undercover to get the scoop on today's high schools. Known as "Josie Grossie" during her own high school years, she reluctantly agrees - re-living the humiliation, pain, and heartache she felt as a teenager. At the same time, she finds herself falling for a handsome teacher who has no idea she's undercover.

7. Cinderella Story (2004)

Another Hilary Duff classic, Cinderella Story follows the life of Samantha Montgomery after she loses her father to an earthquake and is forced to live in the attic while her evil stepmother and stepsisters treat her like, well, Cinderella actually!

With popular kids Austin Ames, Shelby Cummings, and their crew, then her house family, the only escapes she has are the Diner Staff, her best friend Carter, and an online buddy-Nomad. They both go to North Valley High and dream of going to Princeton.

Nomad finally asks her to the Halloween dance, where they meet, and she finds out Austin is Nomad. The masked Cinderella leaves at midnight leaving Nomad with one of his toughest quests ever.

Will Nomad find out Cinderella is nothing but a Diner girl and leave or will he accept Samantha for who she is and they will live happily ever after studying at Princeton? Who knows…

6. Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009)

Another big hitter in the last few years of teen flicks is pop princess Miley Cyrus and in her first hit film Hannah Montana: The Movie we see the world through Mileys eyes.

As Hannah Montana's popularity begins to take over her life, Miley Stewart, on the urging from her father takes a trip to her hometown of Crowley Corners, Tennessee to get some perspective on what matters in life the most.

5. Grease (1978)

We couldn’t miss the great Grease off our list! A musical about teens in love in the 50's in California. Greaser Danny Zuko and Australian Sandy Olsson are in love. They spend time at the beach, but when they go back to school, what either of them don't know is that they both now attend Rydell High.

Danny's the leader of the T-Birds, a group of black-jacket greasers while Sandy hangs with the Pink Ladies, a group of pink-wearing girls led by Rizzo.

When they clash at Rydell's first pep rally, Danny isn't the same Danny at the beach. Will they let their gangs set them apart or will they put their differences aside and regain the love they once had.

4. Surviving Summer (2010)

Starring ‘Lizzie Mcguire’ actress and teen starlet Hilary Duff, Surviving Summer tells the story of Greta (Duff), a bright and beautiful yet off-the-rails teen, whose life changes over one highly eventful summer holiday.

3. Dirty Dancing (1987)

A legendary classic we couldn’t miss Dirty Dancing out! In 1963, "Baby" Houseman (Jennifer Grey) is a 17-year-old spending the summer with her family at a resort hotel in the Catskills; she plans on being in the Peace Corps next summer, so this is expected to be her last summer as a carefree adolescent.

One night Baby hears what sounds like a party going on in the employee's dormitory, and she pokes her head in to discover most of the hotel staff enjoying the sort of close dancing that would get you kicked out of the senior prom in no time flat.

Baby is particularly struck by handsome Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze), a dancer in the resort's floor show, and falls head over heels in love, wanting to be near him.

When Johnny's dance partner, Penny (Cynthia Rhodes), finds herself pregnant after a fling with one of the waiters, Baby volunteers to learn her steps and take her place; however, Baby's father, Dr. Jake Houseman (Jerry Orbach), will have none of it, convinced that Johnny is a low life and that his daughter is too young to understand her own feelings.

2. High School Musical (2006)

One of the biggest hits of the last few years High School Musical tells the tale of Troy Bolton and Gabriella Montez ; two totally different teenagers who meet at a party while singing karaoke on New Years Eve.

One week later Troy goes back to his high school, East High, in New Mexico to find that Gabriella is a new student there. They quickly become close friends and accidentally audition for the school musical.

After getting a callback, drama queen, Sharpay Evans and her sidekick brother, Ryan are furious. Will Sharpay and Ryan ruin Troy and Gabriella’s chance of happiness and lead roles in the school musical or will they let them break free.

1. Mean Girls (2004)

Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) is a 15-year-old girl who has spent most of her life in Africa, where she was home-schooled by her zoologist parents.

When her family relocates to the United States, Cady finds herself attending a high school in suburban Illinois, where she gets a crash course in the various sub-strata of the student body: the jocks, the cheerleaders, the stoners, the "cool" kids, and so on.

Much to her surprise, Cady finds herself embraced by a clique of rich and popular girls known to outsiders as "the Plastics. While Cady is grateful for her new friends, it doesn't take long for her to realize how manipulative they can be when she accidentally goes on a date with head of the plastics ex boyfriend and chaos ensues.