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"So I packed my knapsack, got on the train, and looked up at the map and decided I wanted to live in Coney Island. I thought it was gonna be... you know... a real island. That I could hide away there like Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Well, imagine my surprise. The teacups was the only ride they'd let me on by myself, so I got on it and I started spinning myself around and 'round and 'round. But I feel like I'm still there... spinning 'round and 'round and 'round, and the ride won't stop... and I won't dare get off." UPTOWN GIRLS 2003, dir. Boaz Yakin

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There was a beautiful era in the 90s/early 00s of fun, female lead teen movies that just hit different, were like this golden age of girls just being girls and celebrating that feeling, and no matter how Hollywood tries they will never replicate it.

I'm talking "She's the Man," "Bend it Like Beckham" "Princess Dairies" "St. Trinian's" "What a Girl Wants" "Clueless" "Uptown Girls" "John Tucker Must Die" "DEBS".....obviously there's probably a few I missed but you get the idea. Maybe the stakes weren't as high as saving the entire world, but they were important to the characters and had friendships and silliness and the goal was almost never to get the guy and you just don't get to see that anymore. Also almost all of them had banging soundtracks.

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Dakota Fanning and Brittany Murphy in Uptown Girls (2003)

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Uptown girls being the best movie ever ?!

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20 Years of Uptown Girls (August 15th, 2003)

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You call that taking it well? Do you know what étage your daughter's at in ballet, Mrs. Schleine? Or that she was banned from her science class for stealing a formaldehyde pig so she could give it a proper burial on central park? And the tea set you got her - it's exquisite and beautiful, but do you know how she likes to have her tea, how many lumps - one lump, two - cream, sugar? UPTOWN GIRLS (2003), dir. Boaz Yakin

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UPTOWN GIRLS (2003) dir. Boaz Yakin — was released 20 years ago on August 15, 2003

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uptown girls

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UPTOWN GIRLS (2003) —dir. Boaz Yakin

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Uptown Girls (2003) dir. Boaz Yakin

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Uptown Girls (2003) dir. Boaz Yakin

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UPTOWN GIRLS dir. Boaz Yakin, 2003

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Uptown Girls (2003) dr. Boaz Yakin

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the realization this brought me made me cry actual tears.. [not mine]