re: What movies or shows best reflect your childhood and/or adolescence?

I going with Goonies.

No I had no experience like the movie portrays but I would have been so down for it if it were possible.

Poverty, a few friends, always in trouble for something, wishing I could find a way to help my folks with money....and I was about the same age as most of the cast.

The Sandlot was my childhood except in the 90's. We had a field not far from my house that we played baseball or football in everyday. It was just a given that we were going to play. You'd get home from school and just head there and know you were going to be hanging out with your friends in some way. Unfortunately we had no Hercules like dog that we were scared of.

Clicked on the thread to say Superbad. Spot on.

I dunno, maybe something like the kids in the mighty ducks or big green.. I view them similarly just one group is more urban and one more rural

Teen, maybe American Pie or something like that

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Superbad was High School from 2006-2008 captured perfectly. The way we talked, acted, partied, everything was spot the frick on.

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It's shocking like much shite they got right. Like when we were in high school, one of the dweebier people's driver license was accidentally off by 10 years making him 26, so yeah, he was automatically with the cool table after that. Talking him into going buying booze for the first time with the ID was almost verbatim this scene of us threatening him to go into the gas station and buying the alcohol: "This whole thing is bigger than you, Fogel! So grow a pair of nuts, and fricking walk in there, and buy the alcohol!"

Fight Club

Scene:

"My Dad never went to college, so of course it’s real important that I go. So I graduate, I call him up long-distance and say, 'now what?' He says, 'get a job'. So, I'm 25, I call again and say, 'now what?' He says, 'I dunno. Get married.'"

"I couldn't get married. I'm a thirty-year-old boy."

"We're a generation of men raised by women . . . "

except that instead of a superpowered alien monster, we were all terrified of a gay pedophile named Dave who drove around town in a red Datsun pickup