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The Tween Movies of the 90s

posted 17 years ago by abbyegail0220
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When this came out in 1994, I was 13..Devon Sawa was the "heart throb" kid actor and kid actor's were in HIGH demand. I can name a ton of movies that came out within a 3 year time spand that were all kid friendly and Bop and Big Bop magazines were hot on the shelves and girls had teen heart throbs like Devon Sawa, JTT, Brad Renfro, and Andrew Keegan pasting their walls.

Lets see we have :

Little Giants
Mighty Ducks Triology
Camp Nowhere
Heavyweights
Now and Then
The Babysitters Club (whatever happend to "Alex Mack")
Legend of Bear Mountain
My Girl 1 and 2
Home Alone (Culkin set off the kid actor craze)
Radio Flyer
Tom and Huck
Carpool
House Arrest
Newsies (excellent musical with Christian Bale, no it wasnt his first movie, "Empire of the Sun" was and that is a great flick)

This is just to name a few

Nowadays we have Dakota Fanning who pretty much is the only "kid actor" out there now that you regularly see.

These movies were great. No sex, violence, drugs, or even cussing (maybe "hell" or "damn")

I think Hollywood should tap back into that kid actor era and bring them back. Now you have young adults over the age of 18 playing 14 year olds. Granted Devon Sawa was 16 in Little Giants playing a 10 - 11 year old.

I just think Hollywood tries to scrape by in this day and age and should try to get back to the real family feel that these kids movie's held.

[–] EternalSummer247 17 years ago

Just a few missing...

Blank Check
First Kid
Man of the House
Richie Rich
Good Burger
Rookie of the Year
The Sandlot

[–] coolioava 17 years ago

omg i was like non-existente when thes movies came out and i have seen 13 out of like 16 and you forgot one ummmmm dammit crapola oh yeah

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[–] bmw1987 17 years ago

The Green Mile! That was one of my favorites.

[–] awg2 17 years ago

I think you meant The Big Green. It was about soccer, not a condemned man, right?

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[–] adurham1 17 years ago

Dont forget about 3 Ninjas.

[–] Mae_flower 17 years ago

There was also the Little Rascals movie.

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[–] WHEELS20 14 years ago

Let's murderlize them!

[–] CODNut 17 years ago

Problem Child I and II

[–] YourLipsareRed 17 years ago

Wow all those were exactly my favorites too!
Also..Casper, Parent Trap II, That Darn Cat (remake), Teen Witch, The Goonies, Sandlot...
I could keep going!

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[–] bigrydog9 16 years ago

Carpool? Really? Carpool sucks.

[–] Savannah_McClendon 16 years ago

Treehouse Hostage! I used to watch that all the time on vintage Disney when Flash Forward and Babysitters Club aired.

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[–] star-addicted101 16 years ago

Digging to China is another good one
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[–] sun78 14 years ago

Angels in the outfield

The amazing panda adventure

Monkey Trouble

[–] moonlily9 16 years ago

Bear Mountain? Wasn't that called Gold Diggers? Hmmm. I just remember loving Christina Ricci!

[–] bullit2513 16 years ago

Little Big League and Angels in the Outfield too.

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[–] danglingconversations 16 years ago

and sandlot!

man it was so awesome to be a kid back then. for whatever reason, tv and movies were just the bomb. not like today with hannah montana and all the remakes of the classics from the '90s. im nto saying they were actually movies of worth, but for me!

i loved them dearly.

[–] sendtownjose 16 years ago

I can't believe this, everytime i start a post on imdb about a genre that no one noticed, people don't reply, and then like 5 years later, someone comes along and says the exact same things i tried to tell people back then, and what do you know?? people start replying.

Uncle sandler went to the mall!!

[–] covenant12 14 years ago

it's a mass conspiracy against you

You saw Dingleberries?

[–] sendtownjose 14 years ago

I know man!! It's so gnarly and bogus!! I'm practically bummed out, dude.

Uncle sandler went to the mall!!

[–] sendtownjose 16 years ago

by the way, you forgot to mention that most of them took place in small towns and not in big cities. some of them did, but a lot were shot in rural areas of the united states.

Uncle sandler went to the mall!!