Remember when your biggest problems were crushes and homework? When adulting feels like too much, there’s nothing wrong with putting aside work, bills and doomscrolling.
If you need a break from grown-up problems, we recommend spending an evening with one of these films, all of which are available to stream now. In this update, we added an ’80s teen classic and a hilarious 2023 comedy.
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Two high schoolers concoct a plan to ensure they get to hook up before graduation. Sounds familiar, right? That’s technically the plot of Bottoms, but this comedy has a campy, violent and queer twist. PJ (Rachel Sennott, Shiva Baby) and Josie (Ayo Edebiri, The Bear) start a “female self-defense club” at their high school, with the hidden motivation of stealing hot cheerleaders from their football-playing boyfriends.
Completely over-the-top and outrageous, Bottoms is both a hilarious parody of teen comedies and a tender coming-of-age story.
Bottoms is available to stream on Amazon Prime.
Without Ferris Bueller, teen comedies as we know them would not exist. This John Hughes movie starring Matthew Broderick has it all — ridiculously witty dialogue, angst, romance and a musical number. Ferris Bueller (Broderick) enlists his best friend Cameron (Alan Ruck) and his girlfriend Sloane (Mia Sara) to have the greatest day of playing hooky any teen can imagine.
Ferris’ sister (Jennifer Grey) and school dean (Jeffrey Jones) are determined to catch Ferris in the act, but the “righteous dude” is too quick-witted and clever to be cornered by either of them. While Sloane and Ferris are mostly focused on having a good time, Alan Ruck’s Cameron is dealing with some heavy issues with his father that bring just the right amount of drama to this light, hilarious film.
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is available to stream on Pluto TV.
Romeo and Juliet might be the Western world’s first Young Adult romance. In Baz Luhrmann’s take on the epic tragedy, Claire Danes and Leonardo DiCaprio play the original “star-crossed” lovers who are divided by their warring families in the modern-day city of Verona Beach.
The Standard calls this movie, which is available to stream on Hulu, one of the best Shakespeare adaptations of all time. In addition to star-crossed lovers DiCaprio and Danes, there’s also a young Paul Rudd as Juliet’s fiancé Paris and a hot-headed John Leguizamo as Tybalt Capulet.
You may have watched Romeo + Juliet in your ninth-grade English class. If you did, now’s the time to revisit it. If not, what are you waiting for?
Stream Romeo + Juliet on Hulu.
This Netflix rom-com, based on a novel by Jenny Han, was such a huge hit that it spawned two sequels and a spinoff series. It stars Lana Condor as Lara Jean Covey, a painfully shy high school girl who has written love letters to all her biggest crushes over the years.
When the letters somehow get mailed, Lara Jean finds herself entering a fake relationship with the adorable Peter Kavinsky. This was the movie that put The Recruit star Noah Centineo on the map as well as in many of our hearts. Come for the laughs, stay for THAT hot tub scene.
Stream To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, as well as its sequels and spinoff, on Netflix.
Are you sick of the whiplash between Marvel and DC when it comes to superhero storytelling? Looking for some lighter fare? If so, Sky High is the flick for you. This slapstick comedy follows Will Armstrong, the son of two legendary heroes, who goes to his parents’ alma mater of Sky High, the school for superheroes. Only one problem – he doesn’t have any superpowers.
Michael Anganaro (This is Us) leads the charming cast of wannabe superheroes. The cast features several actors who would go on to star in bigger superhero properties like Danielle Panabaker (The Flash) and Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Birds of Prey).
You can stream Sky High on Disney+.
“Thirty, flirty, and thriving” has become a catchphrase that features in practically every 30th birthday Instagram post, but it originated in this coming-of-age rom-com. When awkward and unpopular teenager Jenna Rink makes a wish to become a fabulous thirty-year-old, she wakes up in the body of Jennifer Garner!
Unfortunately, Jenna quickly realizes that she hasn’t just changed on the outside. The adult version of herself is not the type of person she wants to be. With the help of her childhood best friend, played by a swoon-worthy Mark Ruffalo, can she find herself once again?
13 Going on 30 is available to stream on Netflix.
If you thought YA movies were all fluff and no substance, check out Saved! This satirical comedy touches on some really challenging issues of faith, family and sexuality. Jena Malone of Hunger Games fame stars as Mary, a devoutly Christian teenager who has sex with her boyfriend to try to “save” him from being gay.
Instead, Mary becomes pregnant and watches as her conservative high school classmates turn against her. A young Mandy Moore plays Hilary Faye, a deliciously hypocritical mean girl, and Macaulay Culkin is her sardonic but kind younger brother.
Saved! is available to rent on Amazon Prime Video.
