The 50 Best School Movies Of All Time2:28 pm | Thursday, August 27th, 2009

40. The Principal (1987)

As punishment for a drunken assault, a teacher is made the principal of a rundown, gang-infested school in the ghetto. It’s like Lean on Me, only James Belushi was specifically forbidden from calling himself the “HNIC.”

LESSON LEARNED: If you absolutely have to go to school in the inner city, bring a bat.

QUOTABLE: “If you’re trying to reach me, I’ll just cut your hand off.”

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39. Charlie Bartlett (2007)

A rich private school reject gets beat up when he’s forced to go to public school, so he goes into business with the offending bully, opening a makeshift psychiatrist’s office in the boys’ bathroom. The principal’s daughter, played by Kat Dennings, falls for him. Man, she’s got some big titties.

LESSON LEARNED: Selling drugs out of a bathroom stall is a lot easier than we remember.

QUOTABLE: “Trust me, Doc, bringing psychiatric drugs and teenagers together is like opening a lemonade stand in the desert.”

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38. Juno (2007)

A quip-slingin’ high school girl fluent in slanguistics gets knocked up unexpectedly by her friend and decides to give the baby up to a couple of yuppies. Nothing says funny like babies having babies!

LESSON LEARNED: Strap up or you’ll get stuck with a kid whose weird lingo makes you feel old.

QUOTABLE: “I’m already pregnant, so what other kind of shenanigans could I get into?”

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