Played by Sissy Spacek in Carrie (1976)
the same parts campy and creepy, the disgust of high school has never been captured more perfectly than in the image of Carrie, covered in pig's blood, exacting her supernatural revenge on the bullies who beset her for being different. Spacek even got an Oscar nod for her role, an uncommon feat for both a teen movie and a disgust movie.
Played by Evan Rachel Wood in Thirteen (2003)
Thirteen's good girl-turned-wild child is every parent's worst nightmare. The scariest part? Wood's out-of-control role was co-written by her 15-year-old co-star Nikki Reed, based on her own life experiences.
Played by Johnny Depp in Cry-Baby (1990)
Dubbed ''Cry-Baby'' for his facility to shed a single tear, the motorcycle-riding spawn of Elvis (Depp) falls for a girl from a rival group known as the ''squares'' (she's clean-cut and preppy; he's greasy and wears leather) and will stop at nothing — counting breaking out in a doo-wop number while in jive — to be through her.
VANESSA LUTZ
Played by Reese Witherspoon in Freeway (1996)
Reese Witherspoon is closely the sort of performer you could imagine playing a naïve, sweet Little Red Riding Hood. Only in this thriller — based loosely on the classic fairytale — Reese plays against type as an illiterate, trailer-trash Red Riding Hood who hitches a ride from a big bad serial killer (Kiefer Sutherland) in an attempt to get away from community workers.
REBECCA AND ENID
Played by Scarlett Johanssen (left) & Thora Birch in Ghost World (2001)
Played by Ellen Page in Juno (2007)
what time wisecracking, rebel Juno makes a spur-of-the-moment choice to sleep with her nerdy best bud, she ends up knocked up. In turn, the teen makes a series of daring, against-the-grain choices, and won't bend to anyone's will in the course.
Played by Kate Winslet in Heavenly Creatures (1994)
The real-life Hulme became a national feeling in her native New Zealand after she murdered her mother with the aid of her best friend. The movie report of her story — directed by a pre-Lord of the Rings Peter Jackson — shocked with its unsettling violence, but Winslet's performance was nil short of lovely.
Played by Drew Barrymore in Poison Ivy (1992)
through her nose ring, trampy outfits, and an ivy-wrapped crucifix tattooed on her thigh, Ivy is every morsel the radical teenage temptress who drives men wild. Only this vixen isn't out for just a man. She wants to take over an entire family, and she'll stop at nothing (including seducing mom, dad, and daughter) to get her mode.
JIM STARK
Played by James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Adolescent angst, Hollywood-style found one of its earliest and most enduring voices in Rebel's antihero, played with raw intensity — and more than a little sex appeal — by a 24-year-old James Dean.
Played by Sarah Michelle Gellar in Cruel Intentions (1999)
''I'm the Marcia f---ding Brady of he Upper East Side,'' revels Kathryn of her location in polite society Manhattan. Ironically, though, the snide private-school student is quite the opposite of the oldest Brady girl: She takes cocaine from her crucifix necklace, she maliciously seeks revenge on an ex-boyfriend who screwed her over, and she makes a bet with her step-brother that if he can bed their headmaster's virgin daughter, then his container beds
WILMA DEAN LOOMIS
Played by Natalie Wood in Splendor in the Grass (1961) forest was already a teen-rebel icon (thanks to her role in 1955's Rebel Without a Cause) when she earned her second Oscar nomination as Wilma Dean ''Deanie'' Loomis, a small-town girl who literally drives herself insane pining for Warren Beatty. Can you really
journalist Sarah Morton (Charlotte Rampling) has escaped to her publisher's house in the French scenery for some much needed inspiration when in walks the smoldering, self-indulgent daughter of her publisher, Julie, for an surprising visit. Julie's loose ways (strutting around naked, bedding plentiful men, and boozing all night long) serve to distract and then intrigue the author who has a hard time individual between reality and her thoughts