Role models for our youth: While the Goonies have a propensity for yelling a lot and talking over each other — to the point where this feels like an Altman movie for kiddies — these jokers do prove themselves to be capable of great things. All of them seem to have a special skill (gadget technology, piano, yarn spinning, etc.) that rescues the group from certain doom.

Why you've gotta see it: If you were a kid in the '80s, you grew up loving this, either during its original theatrical release or its subsequent video/cable afterlife. But it's for everybody — kids discovering it fresh will still find it exciting and funny and breathtakingly suspenseful, and adults will enjoy seeing the kid versions of Josh Brolin, Sean Astin and Martha Plimpton. (Jeff Cohen, who plays chubby Chunk, left show biz to become a lawyer but still maintains a fervent cult following.)