It's Practically Impossible To Name 100% Of These Teen Movies
- by Rhiannon-Skye Boden
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It's pretty much accepted wisdom that being a teenager is one of the most chaotic and confusing periods that anyone has to go through. Suddenly there are hundreds of new questions to answer: what to study, how to dress, who to be friends with, what hobbies to have. That's not even mentioning the stress of dating and relationships or the relatively new pressures of social media. Considering how stressful it all is, it's a wonder we haven't all agreed to just put our teenage years behind us.
Honestly, I'm glad we haven't because our obsession with youth has led to one awesome thing: teen movies. From young adult dystopias to paranormal fantasies, to the ever-popular teen romance, teen movies deal with real problems, but usually also have a happy ending. Watching them is a great way to work through real and stressful issues, while also knowing the film will wrap up every problem with a nice little bow.
Over time, most of us have watched our fair share of teen movies, but this quiz is for those who've gone further than that. For people who know their She's All That from their She's The Man and their Divergent from their Hunger Games, this quiz should be no problem. For everyone else.... well I guess we'll see!
What movie is this?
This movie is a 1986 teen comedy film starring Matthew Broderick. It follows a high-school slacker who spends a day off from school, with his best friend from childhood and his girlfriend. They go on a series of more and more unlikely adventures, while back at school rumours about the illness he pretended to have get more and more exaggerated. On top of this, both his headmaster and big sister are determined to prove he is faking his sickness and tell his parents, and he is determined not to get caught. The question is: What movie could this possibly be?
What movie is this?
This movie is a 2004 teen comedy, starring Lindsey Lohan, Rachel McAdams and Tina Fey. It follows a girl who moves to America to attend high school, and immediately is warned about the dangers of each clique. However, when she is invited onto the popular table, her plan to make fun of them and learn about them is soon changed forever, as she finds herself becoming more and more like them. Soon enough, she has alienated her true friends and lost her real personality, and must do everything that she can to put things right. What movie could this be?
What movie is this?
This movie came out in 1995 (IMDb) and stars Alicia Silverstone as Cher Horowitz, a kind and pretty high schooler who also happens to be pretty rich. Even though she's a nice person, Cher is also kind of shallow, and spends most of her time trying to improve the social status of herself and others. She plays matchmaker with her teachers, and even "adopts" the new student at school, giving her fashion tips to help her become more popular. In the end though, she has to re-evaluate her priorities, and what being a good person is really all about. Oh, and it's also a loose adaptation of the Jane Austen classic "Emma", according to Wikipedia.
What movie is this?
This movie is a 2006 musical starring Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale and Lucas Grabeel. It follows a high school Basketball star and his romance with a new transfer student, who he met and sang with on vacation at New Years. The two grow to care for each other, and realize they have a shared interest in musical theatre, but they are discouraged from hanging out by their separate cliques. Over time they manage to unite the school, and prove that both academic and sporty students can be into drama and singing as well. The question is: what movie is this?
What movie is this?
This movie came out in 1995 (IMDb) and stars Alicia Silverstone as Cher Horowitz, a kind and pretty high schooler who also happens to be pretty rich. Even though she's a nice person, Cher is also kind of shallow, and spends most of her time trying to improve the social status of herself and others. She plays matchmaker with her teachers, and even "adopts" the new student at school, giving her fashion tips to help her become more popular. In the end though, she has to re-evaluate her priorities, and what being a good person is really all about. Oh, and it's also a loose adaptation of the Jane Austen classic "Emma", according to Wikipedia.
What movie is this?
This movie is a 1985 comedy drama, starring Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy. It follows five high school students from different cliques, who are all forced to spend a Saturday in detention together. Though at first they don't get along, they spend the day talking about their own lives and struggles, and the pressures they face as teenagers, which overlap a surprising amount. In the end, they decide that they are not as different as they first thought, and four of them even fall in love. The only question is: what movie could this possibly be?
What movie is this?
This movie is a 2014 young adult romance, starring Ansel Elgort and Shailene Woodley. It follows a sixteen-year-old cancer patient who is told by her parents to attend a support group, where she meets and falls in love with another cancer patient. The two go on adventures and wrestle with what it means to be together when they may not live for the same amount of time. The film also deals with the way the adults around the two main characters treat them as though they are not normal teenagers. In the end, one of the two does not survive. What movie is this?
What movie is this?
This movie is a 2004 romantic comedy starring Jessica Garner. It follows a teenager who, after being tricked on her 13th birthday, wishes she was already a grown up. When she wakes up the next day, she has a brilliant job and a boyfriend who loves her, and is days away from turning 30 years old. However, while she can't remember any of how she got to that moment, her friends inform her that she has become a selfish person, who doesn't speak to her parents and sells out her own magazine. Regretting ever wishing to grow up so fast, she has to find a way to turn back time. What movie is this?
What movie is this?
This movie is a 1978 musical comedy, starring Oliva Newton-John and John Travolta. It follows a couple who had a summer romance while on vacation, who then must break up and go back to school. Unexpectedly, they end up attending the same high school, but cannot reunite as the guy is too concerned about looking cool. Over time, he tries to apologize by showing he can change, and even gets into sports. Meanwhile, the girl learns that she should maybe be braver in her dress and actions, and the two finally get back together at the end. What movie is this?
What movie is this?
This movie is a 2008 supernatural romance starring Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson. It follows a high school student who moves across the country to live with her father, and at her new school meets a group of extraordinary people. One of the boys seems to dislike her, but is also fascinated with her, which leads her to find out more about him. Later, she finds out that he is actually a vampire, which is why he tried to stay away. The two fall in love despite this, but find that they have bigger problems, as not every vampire is as kind as his family. What movie is this?
What movie is this?
This movie is a 1999 teen romantic comedy, starring Freddie Prinze Jr., Rachael Leigh Cook, Paul Walker and Matthew Lillard. It follows the most popular guy in high school whose reputation takes a dive, when his cheerleader girlfriend leaves him for a TV presenter. To keep his popularity, he agrees to an impossible challenge - to transform a geeky girl and get her crowned as prom queen, and all in just six weeks. Over the course of the movie, the two learn new things about each other and themselves, and eventually even fall in love. The question is: what movie is this?
What movie is this?
This movie is a 2003 comedy starring Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis. It follows a kind but quirky teenager and her mother, who is about to remarry to a man the teen doesn't like. When arguing at a restaurant they are given a fortune cookie, and after reading the fortune cookie aloud they wake up in each other's body. Only a selfless act can switch them back, and so they spend the next few days in each other's shoes, coming to finally understand the other one's needs and priorities. The only question is: What movie could this possibly be?
What movie is this?
This film is a 2009 comedy starring Zac Efron and Matthew Perry. The film follows a 37-year-old man who is disconnected from his kids, a nuisance to his wife, and directionless at work. One day, after visiting his old high school, he wakes up back in his 17-year-old body. He uses this to discover what his kids care about and who they really are, as well as rediscovering his own passions, morals, and reasons for getting up in the morning. Of course, talking to his family is made far more complicated by the fact that they don't recognise him. What movie is this?
What movie is this?
This movie is a 2007 coming-of-age comedy starring Jonah Hill and Michael Cera. It follows two best friends who want to finally go to a party and get girlfriends before going off to college. They are invited to a giant house party but tasked with finding alcohol to bring, and this mission gets them into all sorts of trouble. Not only that, but one of them falls in with a couple of irresponsible cops, who are determined to show him a good time at whatever cost. Over the course of a night, they try and struggle a bunch of times, and finally learn what's important. What movie is this?
What movie is this?
This movie is a 2004 teen romantic comedy starring Hilary Duff, Chad Michael Murray, Jennifer Coolidge and Regina King. It follows a girl who is made to work as a janitor by her stepmother, who also slowly falls in love with a pen pal she has made over the internet. The two agree to meet up at their high school's Halloween dance, but the girl finds out that her pen pal is actually the coolest guy in school. This leads to her trying to become a bit cooler, and eventually having to stand up to her stepmother. What movie is this?
What movie is this?
This movie is a 2000 teen comedy starring Kirsten Dunst, Eliza Dushku, Jesse Bradford, and Gabrielle Union. It follows a high school cheerleading team who have won the championship six years in a row, and the new captain who must lead them to victory again. They have awesome routines that should easily win, but then the new captain finds out they have been stolen from a rival team, and were taught to them by the old cheer captain. The film centers around her decision to do what's right, and have the team win the right way. What movie is this?
What movie is this?
This movie is a 2012 comedy starring Anna Kendrick, with an ensemble cast including Ben Platt and Adam DeVine. It follows a girl who dreams of becoming a music producer and DJ at a college obsessed with acapella singing. Though she's unenthusiastic at first, she soon grows to love competition singing and her teammates, but the team captain's old fashioned approach leads her to make some not so inspired choices. In the end, she revolutionizes the music they're performing, mends her own friendships as well as everyone else's, helps them to win the title, and gets the guy. Which movie is it?
What movie is this?
This movie is a 2007 coming-of-age movie, starring Micheal Cera and Ellen Page. It follows a teenage girl who discovers she is pregnant, with the father being her friend who is super in love with her. She decides to give birth to the baby but not keep it, and finds a couple in the newspaper she thinks would be perfect parents. She bonds with both of them, but just as the baby's due date is coming up, the man reveals he is splitting up with his wife due to his feelings for her. In the end, the woman adopts the baby as a single parent, and the teen realizes she is in love with her friend. What movie is this?
What movie is this?
This movie is a 2015 mystery romance, starring Nat Wolff and Cara Delevingne. It follows a boy whose crush goes missing after the two go on an adventure together. The boy is convinced that the girl has left clues for him to find her again, and him and his friends set off to track her down. In the process, the boy is forced to confront whether they are as compatible as he thinks they are, or if he even knows her at all. When he finally finds her, she reveals she left no clues, and didn't expect him to come looking for her at all. What movie is this?
What movie is this?
This movie is a 2013 supernatural comedy, starring Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, Analeigh Tipton, and John Malkovich. It follows a teenage girl in a dystopian world populated by zombies, and a zombie that is more self-aware and intelligent than his fellow horde. The two fall in love when the girl is trapped outside the safe zone, and the zombie is forced to protect her from the other zombies. In time, her love brings him back to life and humanity, and the two realize all the zombies could be cured with the power of love. The question is: what movie is this?
What movie is this?
This movie is a 1984 coming-of-age story starring Molly Ringwald, Michael Schoeffling, and Anthony Michael Hall. It follows a girl who feels ignored on her sixteenth birthday, as her big sister is getting married the day after. She has a crush on a popular boy at school who is dating another girl, while a nerdy guy keeps trying unsuccessfully to date her. In the end though, she befriends the nerdy guy who finds a girlfriend of his own, and ends up dating the popular boy just in time to blow out the candles on her birthday cake. Which movie is this?
What movie is this?
This movie is a 2014 young adult dystopia, starring Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Jai Courtney and Kate Winslet. It follows a girl in a society where people are split up into factions based on their dominant personality traits. These factions determine the jobs they do, but also who they are allowed to interact with and what knowledge they are allowed to possess. The girl discovers she has multiple dominant personality traits, which makes her a target to those in power. She has to hide her difference even from her friends and teachers, which is made harder by the fact that she is falling in love with one of them. What movie is this?
What movie is this?
This movie is a 2010 teen comedy, starring Emma Stone and Stanley Tucci. In this movie, a teenager agrees to pretend to have slept with her friend, so that others will stop teasing him for being attracted to guys. Once the news gets out, the girl's reputation changes, and more and more guys ask her to pretend that she's done the same with them. This causes rumors to circulate about her, but she embraces them, stitching a red "A" into all her clothes inspired by the book "The Scarlet Letter". In the end though, she forces everyone to tell the truth, and settles into a relationship she's really happy with. Which movie is it?
What movie is this?
This movie is a 2015 teen comedy starring Mae Whitman and Robbie Amell. It follows a girl who is sick of people using her to get to her friends, and resolves to become a popular girl in her own right. To do this, she asks a popular jock to teach her, and helps him pass his high school exams in return. She does all of this to be able to ask her crush on a date, but when she does it's doesn't go to plan. Not only that, but she begins to fall for the boy training her. The question is: what movie is this?
What movie is this?
This movie is a 2001 teen comedy, starring Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews. In it, a teenager finds out she is descended from royalty, and that her grandmother wants her to step up to the throne and rule as the princess. Although she is terrified at first, she finds that she loves the royal makeover she is given, and that ruling might even be a job she could love, since it allows her to make a difference in the world. However, the increased attention causes her to make some bad decisions, and almost lose her friends before finding herself. What movie is this?
What movie is this?
This movie is a 2002 family comedy starring Parminder Nagra and Kiera Knightley. It follows a girl who loves football, but is forbidden from playing by her strict family. She plays in secret, and her skill is soon discovered by another girl, who invites her to try out for the local team. She gets accepted, and the two become best friends, until she falls for the team's coach, who the other girl also has a crush on. They reconcile, but the girl's parents find out about her secret life, and she must find some way to make them understand. What movie is this?
What movie is this?
This movie is a 2012 young adult dystopian film starring Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson. It follows a poor girl whose town is forced to survive by putting their name in a lottery system in exchange for food. If they are picked, they are made to take part in a country-wide reality show, where they must fight a group of others last-man-standing style. When this character's little sister is drawn, she volunteers instead to save her life, and then learns that some things are bigger and more important than survival. The question is: what movie is this?
What movie is this?
This movie is a 2007 musical romantic comedy starring John Travolta, Zac Efron, Queen Latifa and others. It follows a high school student who is obsessed with dancing, and who wants to get onto a popular dancing television show. She auditions and makes it on, thanks to some moves that she is taught by the black students at her school. She becomes one of the show's most popular dancers despite her heavyset physique, and campaigns for integration of dancers of different races on the show. She succeeds, as well as getting the man of her dreams, and even teaching her mother to love herself. Which movie is this?
What movie is this?
This movie is a 2018 teen romance starring Lana Condor, Noah Centineo and Janel Parrish. It follows a high school junior who writes love letters that she never sends, whose life is changed forever when the boys start receiving them. In order to stop her crush from thinking she likes him, she teams up with her old crush, and the two of them pretend to date. However, they slowly fall in love for real, and the girl has to figure out how to own her emotions and tell him what she feels for real. The question is: what movie is this?
What movie is this?
This movie is a 2004 comedy starring Jared Hess. It follows an awkward teen in a small town who has trouble fitting in. After his grandmother is involved in an accident, fitting in is made even harder when his uncle shows up to keep an eye on him. Looking to find an escape from the constant awkwardness of his school and home life, he befriends the new kid at school, who doesn't speak much English. Together, the two of them team up and run for class leader, discovering their own confidence along the way. The question is: what question is this?
What movie is this?
This movie is a 1986 romantic comedy, starring Molly Ringwald, Jon Cryer and Harry Dean Stanton. It follows a quirky high school girl who is looked down upon by her school's popular students, thanks to her unique fashion sense and music taste. Her best friend Duckie is equally unique, and is secretly in love with her. Another student is interested in her, but since he is a rich and popular guy, his friends encourage him to stay away from her. In the end, he assures her at prom that money doesn't matter to him, and everyone lives happily ever after. What movie is this?
What movie is this?
This movie is a 2012 coming-of-age film starring Logan Lerman, Ezra Miller and Emma Watson. It follows a teenager who writes a series of letters to an unknown friend, detailing his struggles with fitting in at his new high school. Over time he becomes friends with two Seniors and invited to join their group, learning about everything from The Smiths to playing the character of Rocky in the process. In being friends with them he finally learns to open up, and we learn more about his past, including the secrets that have kept him from connecting with people for so long. What movie is this?
What movie is this?
This movie is a 1988 dark comedy starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater. It follows a high school girl who is counting the days until she can leave and go to college, but is unexpectedly adopted by the most popular trio of girls in school. At first she is thrilled, but the friends treat her less than kindly, and even embarrass her at a party. At the same time, she falls in love with a mysterious new kid with a love of dangerous pranks, who turns out to be even more dangerous than she first thought. What movie is this?
What movie is this?
This movie is a 1987 supernatural movie starring Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Kiefer Sutherland and Corey Feldman. It follows two brothers who move house and fall in with a group of teenage vampires. The older brother is turned into a half-vampire without realising, and asks his younger brother to help him. They team up with Star, another half-vampire who also wants to be cured. In order to turn them back into humans, all three of them must take on the group of vampires one by one, and defeat the head of the group to break the curse. What movie is this?
What movie is this?
This movie is a 2000 comedy drama starring Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand, Kate Hudson, and Patrick Fugit. It tells the story of a teenager who dreams of becoming a music journalist, and after working hard ends up writing for Rolling Stone in the early 1970s. He is tasked with following the band Stillwater around on tour, hoping to get a brilliant interview and get his first cover story published. However, during the tour he slowly falls in love with the music scene's most famous groupie, and realizes that being a rockstar isn't as magical or amazing as he thought. What movie is this?
What movie is this?
This movie is a 2008 teen comedy starring Emma Roberts and Alex Pettyfer. It follows a socialite from America whose mother passed away, leaving her constantly misbehave at home. Angry at her, her father sends her to boarding school in England, where she initially acts arrogant and rude. However, she later befriends her roommates, who agree to help her expelled so she can go home. Several pranks later and she has fallen in love with the headmaster's son, and become captain of the lacrosse team, but a fire at the school means she might not be allowed to stay. Which movie is this?
What movie is this?
This movie is a 2016 coming-of-age comedy starring Hailee Steinfeld, Woody Harrelson, Kyra Sedgwick, and Haley Lu Richardson. The film follows a high-school junior, her best friend, and her older brother. The junior is struggling with the recent passing of her father, and believes that her friend is the only good thing in her life. When her friend decides to start dating her older brother, she declares the friendship over, and starts behaving recklessly. She fights with her mother, goes on a bad date with a crush that turns out to be bad for her, and even skips school, before finally making up with the people she loves. What movie is this?
What movie is this?
This movie is a 2018 teen romance, starring Nick Robinson, Josh Duhamel, and Jennifer Garner. It follows a boy in high school who is just discovering that he likes boys, but is scared to let anybody know. It follows him as he is forced to balance his friends and family, as well as the blackmailer threatening to tell his secret to the entire school. At the same time, he has fallen in love with a classmate over the Internet, and is trying to figure out who they are in real life. The question is: what movie could this possibly be?
What movie is this?
This movie is a 1996 supernatural teen film, starring Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell, and Rachel True. The film follows four teenage girls who are regarded as outcasts, who decide to become witches to regain their own power. While one of them is a natural born witch, the others are not, and find themselves corrupted by the power they have. This leads to bad consequences for them thanks to the rule of three, which says that whatever you put out into the world with magic, you get back in return times three. The question is: what movie is this?
What movie is this?
This movie is a 2008 romantic comedy starring Michael Cera and Kat Dennings. The story follows two teenagers who meet when the girl asks the boy to pretend to be her boyfriend for five minutes, to get her out of an awkward conversation. Over the course of the night they realize they both have the same favourite band, and decide to go looking for a secret show they are playing in the city. They also have to find the girl's lost best friend, and over the course of both quests, they fall in love. The question is: what movie is this?