20 iconic movie shopping montages that will help you forget about the death of the American mall

• Mall montages were once synonymous with teenage coming-of-age films and makeover scenes on the big screen. However, as traditional malls continue to shutter at record rates, the classic mall montage is becoming a thing of the past.
• Still, these moments in classic films from the past several decades will live on. Here are some of our favorites.
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The traditional mall as we know it may be dying, but the movie mall montage will live on in our hearts and on our screens forever.

Shopping scenes and mall montages have a special place in modern cinema. Over the years, these cinematic moments have largely become synonymous with teenage coming-of-age films and classic makeover scenes. Whether these malls served as the catalyst for a major character transformation or as the setting of a crucial plot point, there's no denying that shopping centers were once ubiquitous on the big screen.

However, as malls around the nation close en masse at the hands of the retail apocalypse, the mall montage is slowly becoming a thing of the past. We took a look at the halcyon days of shopping scenes in some of our favorite movies of the past few decades.