We Rewatch The Movies We Loved As Teens

Pop Culture Happy Hour

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🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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This summer marks Pop Culture Happy Hour's 15th birthday. We decided to re-watch the movies we loved at 15 with fresh eyes, and of course, some of them have aged better than others. Today on the show, we revisit the movies we loved as teens — including Chicago, Back to the Future, The Breakfast Club, and The Hunger.

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0:00.0	Support for NPR and the following message comes from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
0:05.4	RWJF is a national philanthropy working toward a future where health is no longer a privilege but a right.
0:12.1	Learn more at RWJF.org.
0:19.2	This summer marks Pop Culture Happy Hour's 15th birthday, so we've been thinking a lot about the movies we loved when we were 15.
0:27.6	We decided to re-watch those movies with fresh eyes, and of course, some of them have aged better than others.
0:34.9	I'm Linda Holmes.
0:36.0	And I'm Stephen Thompson.
0:37.1	Today on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour, we're revisiting the movies we loved
0:41.9	when we were teenagers.
0:47.3	Support for NPR and the following message comes from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
0:52.6	RWJF is a national philanthropy,
0:55.2	working toward a future where health is no longer a privilege but a right.
0:59.3	Learn more at RWJF.org.
1:03.2	Joining us today are our co-hosts, Aisha Harris.
1:05.8	Hey, Aisha.
1:06.4	Hello, and prepared to be on brand today.
1:11.4	And Glenn Weldon, hey, Glenn?
1:13.7	Hey, yes, at various ways we are ruthlessly predictable.
1:17.7	We are nothing, if not ourselves.
1:20.4	So the only problem with this assignment is that y'all listening are going to figure out pretty quickly how old we all are.
1:27.9	But here goes, Linda Holmes, kick us off. Give us a movie you loved when you were 15.
1:33.3	Well, Stephen and friends, I made a decision that my interpretation of this would be not just to pick
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