High school, forever.
Dean, and the invention of the teenager on film
one night, a radio station, and a whole era
the teen film with actual reporting behind it
the Hughes teen film, first draft
Hughes' most durable
the prom dress, and Ducky
the boombox, and much more than the boombox
Linklater's hangout template
the party movie of its generation
the best of the Shakespeare-teen cycle
dismissed as fluff, actually sharp
the most quotable script of the decade
Stone's breakout, and a genuinely witty script
the author directed it himself
small, warm, precise
the YA weepie done with real craft
Linklater's hangout peak
Oakland, verse, and real anger
