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I was chatting to someone at work today, about 5 years younger than me and the gaps in this guy's emotional education just baffled me.  The movies he missed, the books unread, songs unsung...This really got me thinking about movies that changed your life, movies that you will think of forever and I decided that its time for some lists again.  So I will start with the Top movies of my youth.  Think Brat Pack movies, think Tom Cruise, Meg Ryan...ah, to be young again!

Today, Top 7 movies, 7 because it is a lucky number of course!




1. When Harry met Sally - 1989
I was a whopping 12 years old, and to be honest, its probably not until a couple of years later that this movie really made a lasting impression on me.  Most memorable scene in this movie, has to be the orgasmic scene in Katz Delicatessen http://youtu.be/F-bsf2x-aeE.  

2. The Breakfast Club - 1985 
One of the most important Brat Pack movies starring Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy and Judd Nelson.  Five high school students, all different stereotypes, meet in detention, where they pour their hearts out to each other, and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought.

3. St Elmo's Fire - 1985
A coming of age movie about a group of friends on the verge of adulthood starring Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson and Andie Macdowell.  Still topical, still watchable.

4. Steel Magnolia's - 1989
A real tearjerker starring Sally Field and Julia Robberts.  Will make even the most hard core person cry...other greats include Shirley McLaine, Dolly Parton, Daryl Hannah, Sam Shepard, Dylan McDermot...

5. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe - 1991 This movie starred Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary-Louise Marker and Mary Stuart Masterson.  It is a story of a depression-era friendship between two women, Ruth and Idgie, and a 1980s friendship between Evelyn, a middle-aged housewife, and Ninny, an elderly woman who knew Ruth and Idgie. The centerpiece and parallel story concerns the murder of Ruth's abusive husband and the accusations that follow.

6. Dying young- 1991
Another tear jerker starring Julia Robberts and Campbell Scott.  Yes, it is very sad yes, you will cry!

7. Dirty Dancing - 1987  
An absolute classic story featuring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey, heaven only knows why we never saw more of Baby?  She was never put in a corner...oh man, I know the words to this movie from the top of my head! And the music, the dancing...

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