Product: Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985)
Rating: 5.0
My favorite '80s movie
GJWHF has everything I wanted from a movie in the '80s: teen angst, rebellion, Cyndi Lauper music... It is the movie my best friends and I have iconized as "our" movie. It is much better than "Dirty Dancing, because the story is more focused on relationships between friends and family members, not just lovers, and doesn't drag social issues in kicking and screaming (anyone else annoyed at "DD"'s little snipe at "The Fountainhead"?). The characters are also more believable, and the acting is excellent. Not to mention the great dancing!