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The high school comedy 'I Love You Beth Cooper' is a not particular movie: It's not particularly good or bad.

Take your seats, class: It's time to get schooled in pop culture by the staff of Entertainment Weekly! This week, we continue looking at the role of music in seminal coming-of-age films.

Actor. Born in Evanston, Illinois, on June 28, 1966. The fourth of five children, including actress Joan Cusack, born to a math-teacher mother and a filmmaker-actor father.

Singer Billy Davis Jr. of the Fifth Dimension is 69. Musician Mick Jones of The Clash is 54.

With two successful films under his belt ." This seems to be one of those rare songs that doesn't have an official video posted to YouTube, at least not one that hasn't been mangled in some way.

Growing up seemed sweeter in the '80s, as effectually portrayed in the films of John Hughes, a baby boomer who spent his formative years in Illinois.

In honor of Father's Day, we're naminga moviedadwhohad a lasting impact on us andthe particular scene that affected us most.

Aggggh! All I can think about when Betty White fondles Sandra Bullock's chest at the end of the trailer for The Proposal is the moment in Sixteen Candles at which Molly Ringwald gets felt up by her own grandma.

"Sixteen Candles" just arrived in my mailbox the other day, ordered from Netflix in a fit of nostalgia.

At first glance, one has to remind oneself that this is a comedy. With that in mind, what a cool movie.

As I watched the tiny fetus squirming on the ultrasound monitor, a strange and exciting thought occurred to me: this person has never seen "The Goonies!" Not only is she unfamiliar with the collective works of The Two Coreys, the name John Hughes means absolutely nothing to her.

Forgotten birthdays and high-school hooky - along with Farmer Ted, a weird Chinese exchange student and a genius Charlie Sheen cameo - will rule Saturday, May 30, when Baxter Avenue Theaters presents a double feature of Molly Ringwald's "Sixteen Candles" and Matthew Broderick's "Ferris Bueller's Day Off." In honor of these great '80s moments, we ...

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Standout track: No. 6, 'Saccharine Smile,' a Weezer-esque powerpop tune, with crunchy guitars offset by sing-songy vocals.

Thank you, 1984, for bringing us Molly Ringwald. I once got into a fight with Edward Norton over which was the best year for movies.

NOW THAT THE decade has been deemed nostalgia, '80s film festivals are catching on.

I blew the top off my past tonight. It seems as though I am growing exponentially, every second, every minute, every hour, every day and every weekend as I do my best to familiarize myself with the discovery of the new.

Ferris Bueller is a tricky but harmless fast-talker. But he knows how to have fun, which is exactly what he sets out to do when he feigns illness and talks his parents into letting him stay home from school.

It might be said that the films of John Hughes were some of the most memorable of that decade known as the 80's. If you were alive back then, let's face it - only a few films really stand out as memorable.

In the past 20 years, John Cusack has been a distinctive presence in everything from noir thrillers to action blockbusters.