Random '90s Movies That Totally Defined Teenage Girl Lif (31 items)

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  (#2) Clueless

  • Alicia Silverstone, Brittany Murphy, Paul Rudd, Stacey Dash, Wallace Shawn, Billy West, Donald Faison, Mike Judge, Amy Heckerling, Breckin Meyer, Dan Hedaya, Jeremy Sisto, Nicole Bilderback, Julie Brown, Carl Gottlieb, Jace Alexander, John Kricfalusi, Elisa Donovan, Twink Caplan, Sam Maccarone, Joseph D. Reitman, Roger Kabler, Micki Duran, Michael Klesic, Gregg Russell, Jermaine Montell, Justin Walker, Aida Linares, Ron Orbach, Sean Holland, Herb Hall, Bobbie Sunday Starr, Josh Lozoff, Christopher E. Cooper, Danielle Eckert, Anthony Beninati, Susan Mohun, Craig Ponder, Sabastian Rashidi

  Possibly the most defining teen movie of the '90s, Clueless was as remarkable for its stars' eye-popping wardrobes as it was for its biting and ironic sense of humor. Cher and Dionne are the academically underachieving, socially overachieving stars of an upper-crust Beverly Hills high school.

  Though she's a ray of sunshine whenever she's getting her own way, things change for Cher when her newly college-educated stepbrother returns home and starts making her feel guilty about her vapid lifestyle. In typical fashion, a convenient transfer student appears, and Cher decides to take the girl under her wing and improve her life by molding her into a model member of her clique.

  Overdressed popularity queens are usually the villains of teen movies. Part of what makes Clueless so funny and sweet is that Cher's intentions remain pure, even if she's a little spoiled, and sometimes gets mentally sidetracked thinking about how fabulous she is. Aside from the usual themes, Clueless is a great movie about the importance of not judging people at first glance.
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  (#22) The Virgin Suicides

  • Kirsten Dunst, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, James Woods, Hayden Christensen, A. J. Cook, Josh Hartnett, Giovanni Ribisi, Scott Glenn, Michael Paré, Jonathan Tucker, Hanna R. Hall, Robert Schwartzman, Chelse Swain, Kristin Fairlie, Sherry Miller, Joe Dinicol, Dawn Greenhalgh, Jonathan Whittaker, Noah "40" Shebib, Timothy Adams, Suki Kaiser, Amos Crawley, Sandi Stahlbrand, Mairlyn Smith, John Buchan, Sally Cahill, Thomas Mars, Mandy Lee Jones, Michelle Duquet, Peter Snider, Courtney Hawkrigg, Melody Johnson, Tracey Ferencz, Andrew Gillies, Leslie Hayman, Chris Hale, Roberta Hanley, Allen Stewart-Coates, Joe Roncetti, Neil Girvan, Derek Boyes, Leah Straatsma, Mark Polley, Scot Denton, Tim Hall, Catherine Swing, Dustin Ladd, Anne Wessels, Ashley Ainsworth, Megan Kennedy, Lee Kagan, Michael Michaelessi, Jaya Karsemeyer, Sheyla Molho, Sarah Minhas, Susan Sybersma, Murray McRae, Paul Sybersma, Kirk Gonnsen, Charles Boyland, Marianne Moroney, Anthony DeSimone, François Klanfer, Mackenzie Lawrenz, Gary Brennan

  Continuing its run as a cultural legacy in the form of seemingly endless Tumblr gif sets, The Virgin Suicides was the directorial debut of Sofia Coppola, who later directed Lost in Translation. Yet another '90s movie set during the '70s, The Virgin Suicides stars Kirsten Dunst as a blonde poster child for sexual innocence who, along with her sisters, is slowly degraded and ruined by the perils of the actual world outside their house.

  The film's dreamy cinematography and tragedy-infused storyline make it feel borderline surrealistic, and it's been attracting angsty teen girls for over two decades.
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  (#14) Can't Hardly Wait

  • Jennifer Love Hewitt, Melissa Joan Hart, Jaime Pressly, Jenna Elfman, Seth Green, Selma Blair, Jason Segel, Charlie Korsmo, Lauren Ambrose, Marisol Nichols, Jerry O'Connell, Sara Rue, Amber Benson, Peter Facinelli, Eric Balfour, Tamala Jones, Donald Faison, Clea DuVall, Breckin Meyer, Nicole Bilderback, Sean Patrick Thomas, Ethan Embry, Freddy Rodriguez, Erik Palladino, Johnny Whitworth, Steve Monroe, Chris Owen, Reni Santoni, Jay Paulson, Seth Peterson, Joel Michaely, Brian Klugman, Christopher Wiehl, Jennifer Elise Cox, Paige Moss, Leslie Grossman, Johnny Zander, Jennifer Lyons, Liz Stauber, Vicellous Reon Shannon, Branden Williams, Channon Roe, Monica McSwain, Harry Elfont, Robert Jayne, John Patrick White, Scott Ryan, Angelo Vacco, Meadow Sisto, Ali MacLean, Deborah Kaplan, Arden James, Jamie Donnelly, Victor Togunde, Tracy R. West, Will Klipstine, Mary Ann Schmidt, Corinne Reilly, Alexander Martin, Brian Hall, Shalen Hutchings, Michelle Brookhurst, Alexandra Ella, Rob Roy Fitzgerald, Shannon Frank, Jennifer Paz, Nils Larsen, Alec Ledd, Eric Brice Scott, Nick Paulos

  Can't Hardly Wait takes place over the course of one evening, on graduation night. The senior class is having a graduation party, and the advance buzz promises a rager. With high school behind them and the looming, terrifying future advancing, everybody has a lot on their mind, and a lot to get out of their system.

  Ethan Embry is adorable in this movie, playing a dude with just one night left to tell the girl he loves (Jennifer Love Hewitt) how he really feels about her. The most memorable thing about Can't Hardly Wait for most people, though, is Seth Green, his wacky hip-hop goggles, and his unexpectedly adorable hook-up with cynical grump Lauren Ambrose. Plus, Jenna Elfman shows up in an angel costume at one point, and there are scheming nerds wearing X-Files t-shirts.
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  (#13) Buffy the Vampire Slayer

  • Ben Affleck, Hilary Swank, Donald Sutherland, Paul Reubens, David Arquette, Kristy Swanson, Thomas Jane, Rutger Hauer, Luke Perry, Stephen Root, Alexis Arquette, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Candy Clark, Randall Batinkoff, Andrew Lowery, Sasha Jenson, Michele Abrams, Paris Vaughan

  Buffy the Vampire Slayer the movie did not do so well when it came out, but it spawned a very popular TV show. 
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  (#29) All I Wanna Do

  This one is set in the 1960s at an all-girls boarding school and deals with all kinds of wacky themes. Gaby Hoffman gets in trouble for plotting to sleep with her boyfriend, so she gets sent off to a boarding school. There, she's handed all the tools she needs to misbehave on an even grander scale after falling in with a group of similarly jaded young ladies who also don't want to be stuck going to school there.

  The seeds of discord are sewn within the group after rumors begin to circulate about the school turning co-ed. Supporting cast members include Rachael Leigh Cook, Kirsten Dunst (who was basically required to be in every movie like this made after 1995), and Heather Matarazzo from Welcome to the Dollhouse.
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  (#6) The Craft

  • Neve Campbell, Robin Tunney, Christine Taylor, Holly Marie Combs, Fairuza Balk, Breckin Meyer, Brenda Strong, Skeet Ulrich, Cliff DeYoung, Helen Shaver, John Kapelos, Rachel True, Assumpta Serna, Endre Hules, Jeanine Jackson, Tony Genaro, Esther Scott, Arthur Senzy, Danielle Koenig, Janet Eilber, Nathaniel Marston, William Newman, Elizabeth Guber, Rod Britt, Darin Mangan, Jason Filardi, Brogan Roche, Glory Fioramonti, Jennifer Greenhut, Karyn J. Dean, Janet Ronblatt, Christine Louise Berry, Rebecca McLaughlin, Erin Tavin, Mark Conlon

  The film that launched a thousand fumbling adolescent Wicca phases, The Craft stars Robin Tunney as transfer student Sarah, whose existence is turned upside down after she falls in with a group of scowling, outcast goth girls who claim to be witches. At war her whole life with her own volatile supernatural abilities, Sarah quickly discovers that the other girls' powers are likewise legit - and that when pooled together, their abilities can be dangerous.

  The real star of The Craft, however, is Fairuza Balk, who stalks, leers, and pouts her way maniacally through the film as the group's unhinged ringleader, Nancy. This movie was pretty much the highlight of Balk's career, unfortunately, but her performance is amazing, and it remains one of the most iconic of the decade. No woman has ever done so much singlehandedly to spike purple lipstick sales, arouse hidden sapphic desires, and encourage irresponsible dabbling in the occult.

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