{"id":11102,"date":"2025-05-06T17:30:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T21:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=11102"},"modified":"2025-04-18T18:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T22:47:09","slug":"holidays-in-the-movies-prom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2025\/05\/06\/holidays-in-the-movies-prom\/","title":{"rendered":"Holidays in the Movies: Prom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/d\/d7\/Carrieposter.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:201px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>College might not have prom every year, but the academic calendar keeps memories of these things flitting about in the mind.  Prom usually takes place near the end of the high-school year, around April and early May.  This is just when the spring semester at my university winds up, so it lines up with <a href=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2023\/05\/03\/holidays-in-the-movies-schools-out\/\">School&#8217;s Out<\/a> a little bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prom_Night_(1980_film)\">Prom Night <\/a>(1980): Jamie Lee Curtis and Leslie Nielson in a slasher movie culminating on prom night.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jawbreaker_(film)\">Jawbreaker<\/a> (1999):  &#8220;I killed Liz. I killed the teen dream. Deal with it.&#8221;  Also culminating on prom night.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carrie_(1976_film)\">Carrie <\/a>(1976): suppressed telekinetic abilities of a bullied teenager wreak havoc at prom. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/10_Things_I_Hate_About_You\">10 Things I hate About You<\/a> (1999): 90s teen movie version of Taming of the Shrew wrapping up in prom.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College might not have prom every year, but the academic calendar keeps memories of these things flitting about in the mind. Prom usually takes place near the end of the high-school year, around April and early May. This is just when the spring semester at my university winds up, so it lines up with School&#8217;s&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2025\/05\/06\/holidays-in-the-movies-prom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Holidays in the Movies: Prom<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[290,21],"class_list":["post-11102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-holidays-in-movies","tag-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10450,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2024\/09\/25\/holidays-in-the-movies-calendar-summary\/","url_meta":{"origin":11102,"position":0},"title":"Holidays in the Movies:  calendar summary","author":"leems","date":"September 25, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Over the past few years we have been cultivating holiday themed watching to get us in the right frame of mind for every holiday. 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