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12 Essential Movies About the End of High School
We tip our graduation caps to these senior-year films.
The characters (and audience) of this ensemble comedy about a graduation-night party, just about the only movie from the late ’90s teen-movie boom that doesn’t involve teens getting murdered, learn an important lesson about high school: that the second it’s over, it’s culture and rigorous hierarchy no longer matter. Plus, like any John Hughes protagonist, he has a preternatural sense that high school is temporary and unimportant — a lesson he happily teaches his best friend Cameron (Alan Ruck), whose overwhelming anxiety will be familiar to anyone dealing with the pressures of young adulthood. Christine, sorry, Lady Bird (Saoirse Ronan), pushes back combatively with her mother (Laurie Metcalf) about most everything, but keeps it chill with her father (Tracy Letts) because he clearly decided that it’s foolish to get in the way of anyone with such a strong sense of self and purpose.
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