Imitating Life

While people say that life imitates art, that couldn't be further from the truth when it comes to every prom movie ever made. I don't know what it is about prom, but it makes movie directors and screenwriters go insane imagining all sorts of crazy hijinx and shenanigans for the (usually middle aged actors playing) teen-aged characters to get into.

However, I can give you a money back guarantee that no one at your prom is going to break out into spontaneous synchronized dance. Some of you will be going to the prom for the first time ever this year, so it's important for you to realize that while prom can be all sorts of fun - and it is possible to get up to some pretty good tomfoolery - PROM IS NOT LIKE THE MOVIES.

That having been said, feel free to use this list of classic prom films to inspire your night of revelry and romance. Who knows? Maybe someone will make a movie about your experience.

The True Classics

• Pretty in Pink - Ugliest. Prom Dress. Ever.
• Carrie
• Footloose
• Grease

Great Proms

• Never Been Kissed
• Teen Witch
  
• American Pie
  
• She's All That - Spontaneous choreographed dance sequence, 'nuff said
• Jawbreaker - Rose McGowan's look inspired my senior prom outfit - ch-check it out

Proms Gone Wrong

• Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion
• There's Something About Mary
• Just One of the Guys
• Rock N' Roll High School Forever

Not Really Prom - But really great dances

• Romeo and Juliet (Baz Luhrman's version)
• Westside Story
• Marie Antoinette
  

The Random Others

• The Girl Next Door
• Whatever it Takes
• 10 Things I Hate About You
• What Women Want
• Not Another Teen Movie
• Encino Man
• The Next Karate Kid
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  

These are only the movies that I have actually seen - Am I missing any of your favorites? Let me know.