We’ve already established that I am a bit of a movie buff. I love them. Big time. But today I want to play homage to some movies from my growing up days – the movies I was watching as a teenager full of all those angsty teenage emotions. And that’s probably another blog right there. I admit it, I was a fan of the John Hughes movies also known as the Brat Pack movies. You remember them: The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles, Weird Science…I just thought John Hughes was the best thing since Judy Blume. And some of my all-time favorites are among his work. Two of which many of you probably have never seen. Stay up late some nights on TNT or TBS and you might catch one of them.

She’s Having a Baby starring Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth McGovern. This is still in my top tier of favorite movies. Kevin and Elizabeth play a young married couple. Kevin wants to be a novelist and the movie is filled with the inner workings of his mind which most of the time are vastly entertaining (my favorite is the lawnmower scene). He’s also coming to terms with his marriage, being a grown-up and ultimately becoming a father. It’s a wonderfully touching movie full of humor and charming moments. Really if you haven’t seen it, go add it to your Netflix queue right now. Go ahead…I’ll wait.

Don’t you love best friend stories? There was a great 80′s movie about this called Secret Admirer that had one of those endings that just made your heart race. Best friend romances have always been a thing for me – I love them in book or movie form. My favorite though is Some Kind of Wonderful. Eric Stoltz and Mary Stuart Masterson (and Leah Thompson) play the leads. My favorite scene in the movie is when Watts decides she needs to give Keith instructions on how to deliver the perfect kiss. To this day it is the best on-screen kiss EVER.

From the Hip. Seriously, am I the only person who has seen this movie? It’s a legal comedy/thriller, which I realize is an odd combination, but it totally works. Judd Nelson who grabbed our hearts in The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo’s Fire is a total hoot in this movie, written, by the way, by David Kelley of Ally McBeal and LA Law fame. Off you go back to Netflix…

And finally I can’t ignore the only movie from the 80′s I probably saw more than Dirty Dancing. Now before I go into this, I should make a confession first. I had a serious movie crush for the majority of my teen years. Frankly I shouldn’t even admit this in public because, well, because it doesn’t reflect well on my taste or judge of character, but at the time he was hot stuff. Or at least I thought so. In any case there were the Coreys…you remember them, don’t you? Corey Haim and Corey Feldman? I know you’re all thinking I was crushing on Haim…but I wasn’t, I was a Feldman girl. It started in the Goonies and just sort of escalated from there. My friends and I actually called this The Lust Boys and admittedly after seeing this movie Jason Patric knocked Corey off his throne (of course this was also about the time that Corey started going through his strange Michael Jackson phase). Once I saw Jason drink that wine, I was a goner. *sigh*

The 80′s were full of treasures like these. Okay, calling The Lost Boys a treasure is a bit of a stretch, but it’s a campy favorite. So what about you do you have any lesser known gems that you love that you want to share with the world?