Adults and teens alike will enjoy this trip down memory lane which features currently-famous stars in the movies that put them on the map—twenty years ago.
Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985)
Sarah Jessica Parker and Helen Hunt star as Janey and Lynne—two teenagers who desperately want to win Dance TV’s competition for a regular spot on the show. This is perhaps still SJP’s best film role to date excluding, of course, her lead in the Sex and the City HBO series. Little Helen Hunt is just as girl-next-door loveable as grown up Helen Hunt, and you’ll get a kick out of seeing Shannen Doherty in a role that preceded even Beverly Hills 90210.
Camp Cucamonga (1990)
This movie has everything 80s/90s from Hammer pants to neon sunglasses to feathered hair. It also has an all-star cast made up of Candace Cameron (of Full House), Jaleel White (of Family Matters), Danica McKellar and Josh Saviano (of The Wonder Years), Jennifer Aniston in her very first film, and Breckin Meyer in his second.
Can’t Buy Me Love (1987)
Anyone who watches Grey’s Anatomy will enjoy going back in time to see Patrick Dempsey as an unpopular teenager in this transformation tale. Ronald Miller (Dempsey) pays a popular cheerleader (Amanda Peterson) to pretend to be his girlfriend in an attempt to climb the social ladder. Will these two overcome their own shallow desires and find true happiness within themselves and with each other?
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1. Last Night
Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law are back again as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson. Those watching the movie to get a glimpse of Rachel McAdams will be slightly disappointed as her role is relatively minor; but for anyone who loved the relationship between Holmes and Watson, this sequel doesn’t disappoint.
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One Day (2011) chronicles the romance of Emma (Anne Hathaway) and Dexter (Jim Sturgess) over a twenty year span of the date July 15th. As the date rolls forwards and sometimes backwards on the screen, readers will notice its similarity to (500) Days of Summer, which came out just two years before. However, unlike (500) Days of Summer, One Day is meant to be an epic romance with a rather epic ending.