 | Sixteen Candles (Flashback Edition)
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $8.93 Classic Hughes. Among the truest works of the angst of being a teen.
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 | The Breakfast Club
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $7.38 A look at the archetypes of modern teens, their deconstruction, and the revelation that, despite labels, we really are all the same.
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 | Ferris Bueller's Day Off Bueller...Bueller... Edition (Special Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $7.49 / Used from: $4.46 Satire on the American teen. Hughes at his peak.
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 | National Lampoon's Vacation (20th Anniversary Special Edition)
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $1.77 The movie that started it all. Hughes' true debut. If you can't relate to the travails of the Griswalds, you never had a family.
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 | Anti-Christ: A Satirical End of Days by Matthew Moses
Buy new: $16.15 / Used from: $14.99 Hughes-ian (is that a word) take on religion. Light, satirical, humorous. A journey into the ether with an immature college student and his misadventures in the beyond.
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 | Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays, and (Other) Outrages of... by P. J. O'Rourke
Buy new: $11.05 / Used from: $0.08 O'Rourke's collected works. A colleague of Hughes, much of the same comedic streak can be seen in his numerous articles.
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 | The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig (O'Rourke, P. J.) by P. J. O'Rourke
Buy new: $11.05 / Used from: $0.17 Further insight from the glorious O'Rourke.
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 | Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government by P. J. O'Rourke
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $4.86 The title says it all.
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 | Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
Buy new: $14.49 / Used from: $0.01 Necessary for all Hughes fans out there.
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 | Pretty in Pink (Everything's Duckie Edition)
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $3.80 Sadly, the last team-up between Molly and Hughes. One of his best though Duckie still should have gotten the girl!!!
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 | Weird Science (Flashback Edition)
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $7.70 The last team-up between Hall and Hughes and it is a gut buster. Only in the 80s could such a misogynistic masterpiece have been made. Only in the 80s.
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 | Planes, Trains and Automobiles (Those Aren't Pillows Edition)
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $7.99 Yet another classic Hughes film.
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 | Better Off Dead
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $5.84 Definitely in the vein of Hughes. A boy breaks up with his girlfriend and tries, unsuccessfully, to kill himself. Cusack in his prime.
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 | Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Widescreen Special Edition)
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $3.34 Somewhat Hughes-ian, an honest take on the problems of being a teen. Spiccoli alone is worth the price of admission.
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 | Can't Buy Me Love
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $4.02 Doc MacDreamy before the muscles, the maturity, and the stubble. Nerdy Pat pays to be cool but gets so much more.
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 | Clerks (Collector's Series)
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $1.99 An homage of sorts to the Hughes movies of the 80s with sharp dialogue, minimalist structure, and blunt honesty.
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 | Rushmore
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $5.99 Classic tale of an immature overachiever.
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 | Pretty In Pink: The Golden Age of Teenage Movies by Jonathan Bernstein
Buy used from: $0.01 To understand the glory of 80s teen flicks, you must read this! Now!!!
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 | Greatest Hits Of The National Lampoon by John Belushi
Buy used from: $9.49 A great read including the wit of Hughes and his colleagues.
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 | Mean Girls (Special Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $1.02 Modern satirical take on the Hughes-ian teen comedy.
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 | Risky Business (25th Anniversary Edition)
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.49 Classic teen comedy. Come for Tom, stay for hijinks.
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 | Just One of the Guys
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $4.16 Cult classic teen comedy. Girl goes undercover to see what life like a teen boy is like.
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 | Heathers - 20th High School Reunion Edition
Buy new: $6.49 / Used from: $7.00 Dark satire on high school popularity.
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 | Election
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $1.93 Matthew Broderick's return to teen satire as he attempts to rig the school presidential election.
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 | Superbad (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $2.00 Modern raunchy take on the teen sex comedy.
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 | American Pie - Unrated (Widescreen Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.24 Classic resurgence of teen comedy after the dreck of the 90s.
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 | Revenge of the Nerds: The Atomic Wedgie Collection
Buy new: $23.49 / Used from: $9.24 Classic teen sex comedy featuring the rise of the nerds.
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 | Dazed & Confused (Widescreen Flashback Edition)
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $3.99 Coming of age in the 70s. Numerous stars before they hit the A list including Affleck, McConaughey, and others.
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 | Almost Famous
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $2.22 True life autobiography of Cameron Crowe as he becomes Rolling Stone's youngest reporter.
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 | Ghost World
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $1.92 Underrated cult classic on the stage between teen and adult.
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 | Fright Night
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $4.04 In the vein, no pun intended, of great teen flicks of the 80s. Cowardly Charlie Brewster must face off with the vampire that has moved in next door.
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 | The Lost Boys
Buy new: $6.49 / Used from: $2.99 Hip, comedic, and well written, a modern day take on the vampire mythos.
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 | Night of the Creeps
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $13.21 Classic horror comedy finally on DVD!
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