In 1982, when Elliott called his older brother Michael penis-breath? while sitting at the kitchen table, we were clearly treading waters outside the saccharine, live-action Disney, Benji or Pippi Longstocking films of the 1970s. A couple of shits, douchebags? and a son of a bitch? later and Steven Spielberg's
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was a far cry from
The Apple Dumpling Gang. Never before ? with the exception of
The Bad News Bears ??had kids spoken with fresh, loud mouths.
Here's an expletive-filled look back at?the top 10 lines spoken by cursing kids from films of the 1980s.
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