I Absolutely Love This Movie

Rating: 10/10 (19 September 2001)

I absolutely love this movie. I have seen it at least ten times. It has some of the best lines I have ever heard. I think that it does a great job illustrating some of the issues with which many teenagers struggle. These issues may seem simple and unimportant to adults but they mean the world to the teenagers. There are teenagers who attempt or commit suicide over these issues every year. So, they are very important.
I also thought that the movie did a great job illustrating how teenagers are often divided into different cliques particularly at school. As well as how these various cliques rarely interact and sometimes look down on each other. As a teenager (and I was a teenager when this movie first came out), I had many problems around the issue of acceptance. I wanted other schoolmates to accept me. I wanted to "fit in". I wanted to be popular and well-liked. I wanted my parents to accept me for who I was at the time. All of this was very important to me. I can really relate to the characters in this movie.
This movie will always remind me what it was like to be a teenager. I also believe that it helps me to better relate with teenagers now as an adult. Thank you to anyone who had anything to do with it and thank you to IMDb for all the great quotes they have listed here for this movie. Take care and God bless you and yours.