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Michelle Pfeiffer & Val Kilmer, One Too Many, 1985
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Marisa Tomei, Supermom’s Daughter, 1987
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03of 13Freddie Prinze Jr. & Jessica Alba, Too Soon for Jeff, 1996Prinze’s character Jeff opts not to wear a condom with his girlfriend (Alba) and learns some hard truths about parenting. TheL.A. Timesreviewer was impressed with Prinze, saying he gave Jeff “a believable, soulful substance.”
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Freddie Prinze Jr. & Jessica Alba, Too Soon for Jeff, 1996
Prinze’s character Jeff opts not to wear a condom with his girlfriend (Alba) and learns some hard truths about parenting. TheL.A. Timesreviewer was impressed with Prinze, saying he gave Jeff “a believable, soulful substance.”
04of 13Jodie Foster, Rookie of the Year, 1973EverettFoster was only 12 years old when she starred as Sharon, who joins her brother’s Little League team as the lone girl. The episode aired the year before girls were first allowed to play Little League, and it won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Children’s Special.
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Jodie Foster, Rookie of the Year, 1973
Foster was only 12 years old when she starred as Sharon, who joins her brother’s Little League team as the lone girl. The episode aired the year before girls were first allowed to play Little League, and it won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Children’s Special.
05of 13Sarah Jessica Parker, The Almost Royal Family, 1984Ken Howard/Disney General Entertainment Content/GettyBefore she was the queen of the Upper East Side, Parker filmed on the Upper West Side of N.Y.C. for this tale of a family that inherits a tiny island between Canada and the U.S.
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Sarah Jessica Parker, The Almost Royal Family, 1984
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Before she was the queen of the Upper East Side, Parker filmed on the Upper West Side of N.Y.C. for this tale of a family that inherits a tiny island between Canada and the U.S.
06of 13Rob Lowe, Schoolboy Father, 1980ABC/Getty"I was barely 15 [and] making it up as I went along," Lowe (with costar Beatrice Colen) told PEOPLE in 2022 of the teen-fatherhood drama. “It was the first thing I ever got a real lead in, I think. In retrospect, I’ve learned that maybe the David Cassidy hairdo wasn’t my best look.”
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Rob Lowe, Schoolboy Father, 1980
“I was barely 15 [and] making it up as I went along,” Lowe (with costar Beatrice Colen) told PEOPLE in 2022 of the teen-fatherhood drama. “It was the first thing I ever got a real lead in, I think. In retrospect, I’ve learned that maybe the David Cassidy hairdo wasn’t my best look.”
07of 13Cynthia Nixon, It’s No Crush I’m in Love, 1983EverettNixon was the object of a wealthy student’s crush in her first acting role in the 1979 afterschool specialSeven Wishes of a Rich Kid, but this time she portrayed a high schooler who thinks her English teacher (Mark LaMura) looks like the soap opera stud of her dreams.
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Cynthia Nixon, It’s No Crush I’m in Love, 1983
Nixon was the object of a wealthy student’s crush in her first acting role in the 1979 afterschool specialSeven Wishes of a Rich Kid, but this time she portrayed a high schooler who thinks her English teacher (Mark LaMura) looks like the soap opera stud of her dreams.
08of 13Jennifer Grey & Kyra Sedgwick, Cindy Eller, a Modern Fairy Tale, 1985ABC/GettySedgwick played the title character in this Cinderella send-up, with, from left, Melanie Mayron, Grey and Kelly Wolf as her stepfamily andMelrose Place’s Grant Show as Gregory Prince III.
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Jennifer Grey & Kyra Sedgwick, Cindy Eller, a Modern Fairy Tale, 1985
Sedgwick played the title character in this Cinderella send-up, with, from left, Melanie Mayron, Grey and Kelly Wolf as her stepfamily andMelrose Place’s Grant Show as Gregory Prince III.
09of 13Viggo Mortensen, High School Narc, 1985The eventual three-time Oscar nominee followed his debut performance inWitnesswith a minor part as Tim, a stoner teen who winds up in the crosshairs of a 22-year-old undercover cop (Michael E. Knight). “You still learn a lot, just in the doing, with any role,” he toldVultureof his early work.
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Viggo Mortensen, High School Narc, 1985
The eventual three-time Oscar nominee followed his debut performance inWitnesswith a minor part as Tim, a stoner teen who winds up in the crosshairs of a 22-year-old undercover cop (Michael E. Knight). “You still learn a lot, just in the doing, with any role,” he toldVultureof his early work.
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Malcolm-Jamal Warner, A Desperate Exit, 1986
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Ben Affleck, Wanted: The Perfect Guy, 1986
12of 13Helen Hunt, Desperate Lives, 1982EverettHunt (with Doug McKeon, Tom Atkins and Diane Ladd) played a sweet teen who believes her peers when they say, “Everybody does it!” and tries drugs. The result: She thinks she can fly and flings herself through a plate glass window. “I could never really tell if that movie was pro-angel dust or anti-angel dust,” Hunt joked onSNLin 1994.
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Helen Hunt, Desperate Lives, 1982
Hunt (with Doug McKeon, Tom Atkins and Diane Ladd) played a sweet teen who believes her peers when they say, “Everybody does it!” and tries drugs. The result: She thinks she can fly and flings herself through a plate glass window. “I could never really tell if that movie was pro-angel dust or anti-angel dust,” Hunt joked onSNLin 1994.
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Justine Bateman, First the Egg, 1985
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