Whether watching with friends at slumber parties or curled up on the couch with popcorn and candy, the “in-between” kids made so many memories attached to the likes of Elle Woods, Cady Heron, Mia Thermopolis, and Lizzie (plus Isabella and Paolo) that we can’t resist rewatching these flicks today.
The ’80s may have given us John Hughes films, but the early 2000s had Hilary Duff, so really, who had it better? Between classic rom-coms like A Cinderella Story, vacation fantasies like The Lizzie McGuire Movie, and unconventional coming-of-age narratives like Cadet Kelly, viewers who missed the cutoff to be ’90s kids but are too old to be considered Gen Z had at least one thing: the perfect films to get us through adolescence. The turn of the millennium is arguably the golden age of teen movies.
