10 Best Teen Troublemakers

In Theaters September 8

This week’s movie The Covenant brings us a gang of teen witches wreaking havoc with their magical powers. Poor role models, yes, but it could be great entertainment. While we wait, here are some other teen troublemakers of Hollywood. They’d get detention in real life, but we love ‘em in movies.

10. The Fast and the Furious - Tricking out your car is cool. Blocking off streets to have illegal races is sketchier. Hijacking electronics shipments is definitely a no-no, but it’s Vin Diesel so we’ll forgive him.

9. License to Drive - The Coreys Haim and Feldman’s finest hour. He failed the driver’s test but still had a hot date. Driving to the hospital in reverse was brilliant.

8. West Side Story - Most violent gang bangers don’t break out into song, so that kind of endeared these race warring hoodlums to us.

7. Stand By Me - Going camping is one thing. Gawking at a corpse is another. But it’s okay because they all had a bonding learning experience along the way.

6. Adventures in Babysitting - My babysitters never took me on wild adventures. Stealing mobster secrets and climbing across warehouse rafters would have been awesome!

5. The Mighty Ducks - They may be rude, crude and disobedient, but these scamps taught all of us the value of teamwork. By Mighty Ducks 2, millions of lives were permanently changed for the better.

4. The People Under the Stairs - Now those adults deserved it because they were kidnapping kids, cutting out their tongues and feeding them raw meet. So the 13-year-old thief and the renegade kid running through the walls beating up the parents were heroes.

3. Back to the Future - Marty McFly skateboarding behind cars was awesome. And teaching his father to swear. And letting his mom get as far as she did, that was balls.

2. Toy Soldiers - The ultimate gang of misguided overachievers put all their skills to the test when they took down the terrorist operation hold their boarding school hostage.

1. The Goonies - Were they actually teenagers yet, or were they younger? Either way, you’ve gotta give me this one. This is the ultimate kids’ adventure, running around the pirate caves after curfew and saving their parents’ asses.