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Genres:
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Comedy /
Romance /
Sport
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Release:
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Director:
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Alan Metter
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Actors:
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Keith Gordon,
Paxton Whitehead,
Terry Farrell,
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.,
Rodney Dangerfield,
Sally Kellerman,
Burt Young,
Robert Downey Jr.,
M. Emmet Walsh,
Adrienne Barbeau,
William Zabka,
Ned Beatty,
Severn Darden,
Sam Kinison,
Robert Picardo
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Duration:
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97 min.
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Rating:
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(6.1/10)84.5
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Plot Summary:
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Millionaire businessman Thornton Melon is queasy when his son Jason announces that he is not certain about customary to college. Thornton insists that college is the best thing he not till hell freezes over had for himself, and to back up his nucleus, he agrees to enroll in opinion along with his son. Thornton is a giving hit on campus: always throwing the biggest parties, knowing all the right people, but is this the way to pass college?
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Tags:
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Back to School
Diverting comedy in which Dangerfield's crass, mouthy self-made millionaire joins his son's class in order to encourage him in his college work - but finds the alluring English teacher (Kellerman) a much more interesting prospect. Dangerfield's personal weirdness is the element upon which to meditate: the claret-coloured blush, the libidinous grin, the raving, raging cruelty, the sourpuss one-liners - it's such a painfully thin disguise for something much more desperate, much less crush-proof. Somehow, he's no more out of place in the classroom than any other environment in which Metter's film places him. Observe, and offer cod psychological analysis to your friends.
flunkies
Dangerfield plays a self-made tycoon accustomed to buying people. He enrols at a college in order to support his son who is studying there, and continues to buy influence, friends, and grades. Some of the humour derived from the scenario is priceless and timeless, particularly an exchange between a preposterously English economics lecturer and Dangerfield's pragmatic character. Downey Junior in an early role is also on form. However, the humour just as frequently dives well below the middlebrow tide mark. Worth seeing if you remember this is an '80s comedy that has not aged at all well.
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