This is my favorite movie ever. I love how realistic and honest it is. I'm surprised there arent any real postings on this board. Any recommendations like this movie?
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Yes I think this movie is very underrated as well. The characters are great. Very honest and real. I saw it 2 or three times when it was at the theatres. Susan Skoog is great. I wish she would direct another film.
I saw this movie on cable five years back and was pretty impressed with it, so I taped it when it came on again. I haven't had been able to watch it since though because it's really does convey EXACTLY what it was like to be a teenager in the 1980's--DEPRESSING. (Of course, it's set in 1981 and the main characters are girls a few years older than I would have been then, but most of the decade was pretty much like that). I always wondered though if the movie in any way inspired the short-live TV series "Freaks and Geeks" a few years later which was a little more humorous and nostalgic look at the same era. Maybe that's why that show didn't last--does anybody really WANT to remember 1981?
shareI really want susan skoog to direct another film! I'm sure its a great depiction of growing up in 1981, but any teenage girl can relate to this movie, because everyone knows a girl like that in high school. And you always do wonder what would ever happen to that type of girl, but you know that you've got to move forward. I'd love some recommendations to similar movies like this
share I've caught this a couple of times on cable and it is compelling, if a little depressing. I was in college, as opposed to high school, in 1981 (and am male) but it does seem authentic to the time. Great soundtrack, too - especially Aimee Mann's "I Should Have Known," which plays over the closing credits.
I've got to say, though - what an oddly sparse message board!
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I always wondered though if the movie in any way inspired the short-live TV series "Freaks and Geeks"
I kind of liked this, but haven't seen it since around 1999.
shareit's out now on DVD - http://www.amazon.com/WHATEVER/dp/B00F1FVI78/
shareI vaguely remember seeing this movie back in 1998 or 1999 and couldn't remember the name of it. The more memorable parts weren't tied to the plots but the settings and how much emphasis they placed on the fashion to get it to look just right. Freaks And Geeks came out a little later and only strengthened my view that this movie got it right in those parts. I cannot recall much of the plot, though, but I'd say, in general, try films like Meantime and London Kills Me... and maybe Hysterical Blindness for the cheez factor of the 80s.
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I was a teeenager in the 80's as well and agree it was very realistic. I love this movie. Another movie (although admittedly much more lighhearted) you might enjoy is "Girl". The book Girl is based on is of a more serious tone and is very much like the film "Whatever." Try both.
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How can this be your favorite movie? is this the only movie you have ever seen? Don't et me wrong, I liked it a lot. However, it's plain and lame at certain parts. Some movie that blow this out of the water: Snatch, Memento, Donnie Darko
shareIt's one of my favorites...not for being a cinematic masterpeice. It's so real and earnest. It pulls at my heart-strings. I just have a thing for this type of movie/book/short story. Growing up f-ed up in suburbia. Ha, I write about it too.
shareOver the Edge, All Over Me, Stealing Beauty, Career Girls (not a lot alike in pace or tone, but a great movie about two girlfriends who met in the early 80's)
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