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Little Darlings
Why this pick
Like The Legend of Billie Jean, it gives teenage girls real agency and friction, balancing unruly summer energy, class tension, and a surprisingly tender coming-of-age perspective.
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MOVIE1985 1h 36m USA
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Why this pick
A raw, rebellious youth story with an outsider heroine and volatile small-town surroundings; it shares Billie Jean’s defiant spirit, though with a much darker emotional edge.
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Times Square
Why this pick
Its runaway teen heroines turn friendship and frustration into public rebellion, carrying the same scrappy 1980s outsider-romance and female-led refusal to be pushed aside.
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Desperately Seeking Susan
Why this pick
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The Chocolate War
Why this pick
It shares the era’s adolescent rebellion and an individual standing against entrenched local power, but approaches its school setting with a more severe, unsettling seriousness.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Billie Jean Davy (Helen Slater), a teenager in Corpus Christi, Texas, rides with her younger brother, Binx (Christian Slater) on his Honda Elite 150 to a local lake to go swimming. At a drive-in, Hubie Pyatt, a rowdy local teen, and his friends hit on Billie Jean, but Binx humiliates him by throwing a milkshake in his face. Later, as Billie Jean tells Binx about the weather in Vermont, a place he has always wanted to visit, Hubie steals Binx's scooter.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Helen Slater
Billie Jean Davy
Christian Slater
Binx Davy
Martha Gehman
Ophelia
Yeardley Smith
Putter
Keith Gordon
Lloyd Muldaur
Peter Coyote
Lt. Larry Ringwald
Dean Stockwell
Muldaur
Richard Bradford
Pyatt