Thelma & Louise (1991)

Dumb but excessively delicious JD aka Brad Pitt is resplendent in a cowboy hat and a rippling nut brown torso and bones sexy Gina Davis in a cheap motel in a scene we have watched 35 times just for research.

American Pie (1999)

In which a whey-faced incontinent youth in a white dinner jacket “aged 18 years the way I like it” gets it on with Stifler’s Mom in a sprayed on lilac dress and a bouncy blow dry and thus becomes a man. Right.

The Reader (2008)

Kate Winslet is being all sexy and au naturel with a teenager in the summertime and they have lots of nice baths… until her extremely dark past emerges and it turns into quite a different film.

Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001)

This sexy coming of age road trip has two teenage boys and an older woman getting it AWN. But she’s not really that old is she. Still, Gael Garcia Bernal is in it and sometimes that’s all you need.

Harold and Maude (1971)

This cult classic takes the reverse age gap thing and runs with it into the woods. A dark but beautiful film about a young man who falls in love with a 79 year old woman, despite all. *weeps*

Crush (2001)

Just when you thought you had seen every weak chick film there was, teacher Andie MacDowell falls for her former student and embarks on an unlikely romance. It doesn’t end well.

Words: Anna-Marie Crowhurst

Pictures: Rex

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