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With Valentine’s Day around the corner, you might be scrambling to plan an unforgettable evening with your special someone. Or you might be one of the unlucky few who completely forgot about that day until now. Yeah, we know you’re out there. Don’t panic, that’s why we’re here! This V-Day, stay in, order up some food, grab a few bottles of wine, and fire up a classic ‘80s movie!It’s hard not to love the ‘80s. It’s the decade that gave us door-knocker earrings, colorful pumps, pink lipstick, Cotler “parachute” pants, scrunchie hair ties, banana clips and ribbon barrettes… What’s not to like?
We also remember the amazing music that stands the test of time. Madonna’s Like A Virgin and Open Your Heart
1. Adventures In Babysitting
Starring Elisabeth Shue
After getting ditched by her boyfriend, seventeen-year-old Chris Parker decides to babysit three young kids in the suburbs of Chicago. Hoping for an easy night, Chris finds herself and the kids swept up in a crazy adventure with her best friend who just ran away from home.
Lesson: Plans with your partner don’t always work out the way you want. But it’s the adventures that happen along the way that test our understanding of who we are and what we want out of life.
Favorite Quote: “Don’t fuck with the babysitter.”
2. The Legend of Billie Jean
Starring Helen Slater
After Billie Jean’s brother’s scooter is damaged by a bully, Billie seeks the money for repairs from the bully’s dad. After the dad tries to make a move on her, things get out of hand and Billie, her brother and some friends wind up in a wild police chase.
Lesson: You sometimes need put yourself out there and stand up for what you believe.
Favorite Quote: “I’m Billie Jean Davy, and I wanna set the record straight.”
3. A Nightmare on Elm Street
Starring Robert Englund and Johnny Depp
Serial killer Freddy Krueger is brought to mob justice and burned alive by the parents of Springwood. With his dying breath, Freddy utters his pledge to exact revenge on the town’s children in the one place their parents can’t protect them-their dreams. Freddy Krueger will stop at nothing to kill them all with his sharp-clawed glove.
Lesson: If you don’t wake up screaming—you won’t be waking up at all! Nothing like a good scare to get your lover to cling on to you for dear life.
Favorite Quote: “I’m your boyfriend now, Nancy.”
4. Stand By Me
Starring River Phoenix, Jerry O’Connell, and Kiefer Sutherland
Four best friends go on a journey to find the dead body of a missing kid from their town.
Lesson: We meet many people in life, and each changes us for better or worse. But it’s those we hold closest, our friends, that teach us how to grow. We laugh, we cry, and we stand by each other when times get hard.
Favorite Quote: “It happens sometimes. Friends come in and out of your lives, like busboys in a restaurant.”
5. Just One of The Guys
Starring Joyce Hyser
Terry lives in a world where men run everything. When she isn’t taken seriously, she goes undercover as a man to try and get the summer internship that she wants.
Lesson: We all want to be taken seriously, and when we’re not, we will do whatever it takes to make sure our voices are heard.
Favorite Quote: “Hey, no problem. Just a couple of clean American kids experimenting with sex.”
6. Gremlins
Starring Zach Galligan and Phoebe Cates
A young man receives a strange pet named Gizmo along with a long list of cryptic care instructions. After disobeying what he was told, he now must protect his new pet from the evil monsters that are now out to get him.
Lesson: Actually, none! In the ‘80s, we all wanted one of those little fuzzy things. Still do. This is a great movie to stay in with some wine, some laughs and someone special.
Favorite Quote: “Bright light, bright light.”
7. Top Gun
Starring Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer
A reckless navy pilot seeks to be the best in the prestigious Top Gun flight school while he also attempts to win over the girl of his dreams.
Lesson: We’ve all met the one that just takes our breath away. You might just be with that one right now.
Favorite Quote: “Take me to bed or lose me forever.”
8. Beetlejuice
Starring Geena Davis, Winona Ryder and Michael Keaton
After a young couple is killed in a horrific car crash, a new family buys their now vacant home. The dead couple, Barbara and Adam remain to haunt the house and scare away the new tenants with the help of a new friend from the afterlife.
Lesson: Love, true love will stand until the end of time. Even in death.
Favorite Quote: “Because if I tell you, you’ll tell your friends, your friends are callin’ me on the horn all the time, I gotta show up at shopping centers for openings and sign autographs and shit like that and it makes my life a *hell*. Okay? A living hell.”
9. Pretty In Pink
Starring Molly Ringwald
A social outcast tries to win over richest and most popular boy at her high school.
Lesson: We’ve all been there. We feel that we’re not good enough for the person of our dreams. The key is to understand that your differences might just bring you together.
Favorite Quote: “You said you couldn’t be with someone who didn’t believe in you. Well I believed in you. I just didn’t believe in me. I love you… always.”
10. Footloose
Starring Kevin Bacon
After religious fanatics ban music and dancing in a small midwestern town, it’s up to the new guy on the block to save it.
Lesson: Stand up for what you believe, even if the odds are stacked against you.
Favorite Quote: “Ecclesiastes assures us… that there is a time for every purpose under heaven. A time to laugh… and a time to weep. A time to mourn… and there is a time to dance. And there was a time for this law, but not anymore. See, this is our time to dance. It is our way of celebrating life. It’s the way it was in the beginning. It’s the way it’s always been. It’s the way it should be now.”
11. Die Hard
Starring Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman
New York City policeman John McClane is attending a corporate christmas party with his estranged wife in a Los Angeles high rise. The festivities are interrupted by terrorists who take over the entire building, and hold the partygoers hostage. McClane realizes that there’s no one to save the hostages—but him.
Lesson: Never mess with a man’s family. If you do, get ready for all hell to break loose.
Favorite Quote: “ Yippee-Ki-Yay, Motherfucker!”
12. Say Anything
Starring John Cusack
Diane is all set to go to college at the end of summer, but fate intervenes and she ends up falling for a boy in the last few days of school. The only thing standing in their way is her father.
Lesson: Love is hard. But it’s even harder when someone tries to keep you from the one your heart desires. Finding strength in one another will help your love endure. And enduring love makes you feel safe to say anything.
Favorite Quote: “Just knowing that a version like that exists, knowing that just for a minute she felt that and wrote ‘I can’t help loving you.’ That has to be a good thing.”
13. Dirty Dancing
Starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey
An American-Jewish girl is dragged along on her family’s summer vacation in the Catskills. But when she meets a dance instructor who shows her a little more than just dancing, she must find a way to hide it from her dad.
Lesson: You’re hungry for your lover’s eyes. When you two are in a room together it’s like you’re one, the chemistry is incredible. One heart, one soul. Once you find that feeling, never let it go.
Favorite Quote: “Nobody puts Baby in a corner.”
14. Can’t Buy Me Love
Starring Patrick Dempsey and Amanda Peterson
High school cheerleader, Cindy Mancini wears her mother’s designer clothes to a house party. When someone destroys them, nerdy high schooler Ronald Miller saves her by offering to buy her a new $1,000 outfit. The catch: she must pretend they are a couple for an entire month at school.
Lesson: Some people will do just about anything to get the guy/girl of their dreams. Love knows no boundaries.
Favorite Quote: “Iris? Oh yeah, she’s a big conquest. She’s given more rides than Greyhound!” Movies are made to evoke emotion in the audience. Some scare us, some make us laugh, others make us cry. And great love stories told on film can show us the power of love.
