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The Tween Movies of the 90s

posted 17 years ago by abbyegail0220
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When this came out in 1994, I was 13..Devon Sawa was the "heart throb" kid actor and kid actor's were in HIGH demand. I can name a ton of movies that came out within a 3 year time spand that were all kid friendly and Bop and Big Bop magazines were hot on the shelves and girls had teen heart throbs like Devon Sawa, JTT, Brad Renfro, and Andrew Keegan pasting their walls.

Lets see we have :

Little Giants
Mighty Ducks Triology
Camp Nowhere
Heavyweights
Now and Then
The Babysitters Club (whatever happend to "Alex Mack")
Legend of Bear Mountain
My Girl 1 and 2
Home Alone (Culkin set off the kid actor craze)
Radio Flyer
Tom and Huck
Carpool
House Arrest
Newsies (excellent musical with Christian Bale, no it wasnt his first movie, "Empire of the Sun" was and that is a great flick)

This is just to name a few

Nowadays we have Dakota Fanning who pretty much is the only "kid actor" out there now that you regularly see.

These movies were great. No sex, violence, drugs, or even cussing (maybe "hell" or "damn")

I think Hollywood should tap back into that kid actor era and bring them back. Now you have young adults over the age of 18 playing 14 year olds. Granted Devon Sawa was 16 in Little Giants playing a 10 - 11 year old.

I just think Hollywood tries to scrape by in this day and age and should try to get back to the real family feel that these kids movie's held.

[–] retroness 13 years ago

Don't forget..!

Just Like Dad
No Dessert, Dad, Till You Mow the Lawn
Remote
Rent-A-Kid

Thanks to Youtube, you can watch most of these on there..!!!

[–] CranberriAppl 13 years ago

Some more:

*Adventures in Babysitting-I saw a trailer last week for a movie that is probably not quite a remake, but is too similar to not notice
*Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
*Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and Blew Up the Kid
*The Next Karate Kid
*A Goofy Movie
*Hook
*Beethoven
*Problem Child
*SPACE JAM
*the two PeeWee movies
*Does Big count? I watched it over and over as a kid
*The Ernest movies

Does anyone remember the name of the movie where the two kids take their parents hostage?

Don't forget the Disney Channel movies that used to air on Fridays: Summertime Switch, Freaky Friday, The Great Mom Swap

Gus:I have never been so motivated to make money
Burt: Smoke on that, jerk.

[–] Nike316 10 years ago

Camp Cucamongo
Honey I Blew Up the Kid
A Pig's Tale
Houseguest
Bye Bye Love
Harriet the Spy
Leave It To Beaver
Slappy and the Stinkers
Casper: A Spirited Beginning
Casper Meets Wendy

[–] CountOroku01 10 years ago

Why call them tween films?

Guess there really are people who act worse than 12 year olds.

[–] JohnnyCastle 10 years ago

Frankie Muniz had some good ones in the 2000s. Agent Cody Banks and Big Fat Liar were ok.

That's funny though I forgot what a big heart-throb this one kid was in Little Giants. He had the Casper movie too. JTT and Joshua Jackson too.

[–] CountOroku01 9 years ago

By the 2000s they weren't the same anymore. Maybe Snowday but that was not either.

Everything died off 20 years ago.

Guess there really are people who act worse than 12 year olds.

[–] tonychappell 9 years ago

Ladybugs with Jonathan Brandis and Rodney Dangerfield!!

[–] bishop-69757 8 years ago

90's was a great time for tween movies

2000's and 2010's suck

[–] teenangel1226 8 years ago

Yeah there's not many good ones or relatable ones these days.

"Live Today Like You'll Die Tomorrow"

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