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One thing about pop culture, there will always be movies made that help define a generation. My grandma had "Breakfast at Tiffany's," the Boomer's had "The Big Chill," Generation X had "High Fidelity" and Generation Y had "Napoleon Dynamite."
But what I find most interesting about these cult movies is that people who are not in a movie's particular generation generally hate it.
For example, when "Reality Bites" first came out, I couldn't get enough of it. I loved it. My mother absolutely loathed it. Couldn't stand it. She told me to watch the movie again when I was older and I'd understand why she hated it.
Well, here we are, however many years later, and it is still one of my favorite movies. And by the same token, I never quite got her love of "Valley of the Dolls."
But even though we may never truly "get" each other's generational movies, that doesn't change the fact that there are...
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