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May 30, 2020 · In honor of commencement only a few days away, we rounded up some of the best movies to watch to get you in the graduation spirit. From Elle Wood's iconic valedictorian speech to a nostalgic...
Mar 19, 2021 · These are the best movies to watch during graduation season, especially if you can't have an in-person ceremony.
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- The Graduate. Still the definitive post-grad film, and our number one suggestion. In Mike Nichols’ timeless classic, Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) is a recent grad who has no idea what he wants to do with his life.
- Cooley High. Michael Shultz’ classic coming of age film shows a group of Chicago friends in their last year of high school – a time of romance, parties, and having a good time.
- Better Luck Tomorrow. Before there was Fast & Furious, there was Better Luck Tomorrow – Justin Lin’s directorial debut, and canonical origin story of Sung Kang’s Han.
- Booksmart. Most of the films on this list are about the times before and after graduation. Well, Olivia Wilde’s Booksmart is about the day itself. Sort of.
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- The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003) People may choose to dismiss this one because it is a Disney movie based on a TV show, and it didn’t go to festivals or win major awards, but that would be such a waste.
- Booksmart (2019) One of the more recent teen comedy successes, Booksmart is equal parts vulgar and sweet. The movie follows two high school best friends, Molly (Beanie Feldstein) and Amy (Kaitlyn Dever), who have spent their entire school career abstaining from partying so they could get into good schools.
- The Graduate (1967) The quarter-life crisis never looked as good as it does in The Graduate. One of the most important movies in the history of Hollywood, it centers around Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman), a recent college grad who is living at home with no job prospects and begins an affair with the wife of his father’s business partner, Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft).
- Dazed and Confused (1993) Though Richard Linklater had already wowed audiences at Sundance with his film Slacker, Dazed and Confused became his first big commercial success.
- American Graffiti (1973) George Lucas’s second directorial effort is a low-budget coming-of-age film that features a plethora of future film and TV stars and set the standard for teen films since.
- Lady Bird (2017) In a gem of a film destined to become a classic, generations clash as Catholic high school senior Christine (Saoirse Ronan) approaches young adulthood by adopting the name “Lady Bird,” dumping her childhood friend to hang with the “cool” kids and applying to colleges across the country, all to her mother Marion’s (Laurie Metcalf) displeasure.
- Grease (1978) “Grease” may not be a realistic view of high school life in the 1950s, but it is certainly one of the most fun. After a year of rocky romances, cool car transformations and girlie makeovers, the Pink Ladies and T-Birds get quite the send-off with a full-fledged carnival (which was a real carnival, by the way).
- Booksmart (2019) Best friends Molly and Amy (Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever) have spent their school years studying hard to get into a prestigious school, convinced that their classmates are underachievers who have wasted their lives partying.
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Mar 29, 2024 · All of the best graduation movies help you relive your high school glory days. Think: buddy comedies like Superbad and Booksmart or quintessential '80s movies like The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off .
