Gen X movies by Generational Story

Going through that previous list of Generation X movies, here's a quick and dirty assessment of which of the Four Stories they are. 

If you haven't been here before, please take a look at the Introduction to Generations, the Generational Attributes and (especially for this one) the Four Stories in order to get up to speed on how this works and terms being used.

1)  The Bad News Bears (1976)
Redemption - misfits make good. Even if the championship game doesn't work out exactly as everyone might have preferred. 

2)  Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Cameron Crowe 

This is an ensemble piece with a lot of threads, so it's difficult, but on balance it seems like a Prophet story, with people figuring out who they should be.

3)  Sixteen Candles (1984)

Claire isn't especially flawed, but she is saved - Redeemed - by others, particularly Jake. Although it's reasonable to say that she is finding out who she should be (i.e. a Prophet story).

4) Heathers (1988)

Redemption - Veronica isn't too flawed to start, but she has her issues that she has to work through

5)  Clerks (1995)

Redemption - Dante figures things out by the end.

6) Go (1999)

Hero - People working together, in different combinations, succeeding but with sacrifice (Ronna gets hurt, Simon gets shot, etc.)

7) High Fidelity (2000)

Redemption - flawed Rob figures himself out.

8) The Royal Tenenbaums: (2001)

Redemption, but for the father Royal,  who is of the Silent (Artist) generation. Although the Gen X Tenenbaum children are saved, as well.

9) Up in the Air (2009)

Anti-Redemption - Ryan Bingham (Clooney's character) is unable to be saved.

10) The Big Short (2015) 

Redemption - Flawed people all around, making as good as they can with the skills they have. 

We end up with six definite Redemption stories, plus one story of failed Redemption that is (for reasons we'll come back to) the Tragedy version of the Nomad story. There is one story split between Redemption and Prophet, one Prophet story, and one Hero story.  It's hardly scientific - both the original list and this assessment is too subjective - but it's interesting to see how the story type does seem to match more times than not.