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6 July 1983 (USA)
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The good news is, Jonathan's having his first affair. The bad news is, she's his roommate's mother!
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Jonathan, a naive country boy, gets a scholarship to a classy prep school, where he rooms with suave...
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Opening Night: Star Power at the Chicago International Film Festival
(From HollywoodChicago.com. 9 October 2009, 7:22 AM, PDT)
Sandler, Crowe, Cusack, Wahlberg Add Star Power to Walk of Fame
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(From HollywoodChicago.com. 9 October 2009, 7:22 AM, PDT)
Sandler, Crowe, Cusack, Wahlberg Add Star Power to Walk of Fame
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"The Graduate" meets "Porky's"
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Jacqueline Bisset | ... | Ellen Burroughs | |
| Rob Lowe | ... | Franklin 'Skip' Burroughs IV | |
| Andrew McCarthy | ... | Jonathan Ogner | |
| Cliff Robertson | ... | Mr. Burroughs | |
| Stuart Margolin | ... | Balaban | |
| John Cusack | ... | Roscoe Maibaum | |
| Alan Ruck | ... | Roger Jackson | |
| Rodney Pearson | ... | Allen | |
| Remak Ramsay | ... | Kennedy | |
| Virginia Madsen | ... | Lisa | |
| Deborah Thalberg | ... | Susan | |
| Fern Persons | ... | Headmistress DeBroul | |
| Casey Siemaszko | ... | Doug | |
| Aaron Douglas | ... | Barry | |
| Anna Maria Horsford | ... | Maggie |
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98 min
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Color (Astrocolor)
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1.33 : 1 more
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Iceland:12 |
Canada:13+ (Quebec) |
Canada:18A |
Canada:PA (Manitoba) |
Australia:M |
Argentina:16 |
Finland:K-16 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:15 |
USA:R |
West Germany:12
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Feature debuts of Andrew McCarthy, Alan Ruck, John Cusack, Casey Siemaszko, Virginia Madsen and Lolita Davidovich.
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Continuity: When Skip is telling Jonathan about the time he shot and killed a guy, he reaches into the fridge and takes out an apple with his left hand and and goes to take a bite, when the camera does a close up the apple has moved to his right hand.
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Failed cross-pollination of "The Graduate" with any number of frat-house romps does have one thing going for it: Rob Lowe (pre-"St. Elmo's Fire") gives a loose, frenetic performance as a prep-school student whose unstable mother has a secret affair with Lowe's roommate. As he got older, Lowe tended to lean heavily on his male-model good looks, resulting in some posturing performances. This vehicle for him and newcomer Andrew McCarthy is doomed, however. It wants to be a T&A comedy, a sensitive tale of friendship, and a slightly naughty love story between an older woman and a younger man. The romance is unpleasant from the outset, with Jacqueline Bisset TOO convincing as 40-ish trollop with mental problems. Bisset is definitely in the spirit of the thing, but it's a distressing role for the classy actress, who every once in a while stepped into the gutter. The kids are convincingly callow, but their slapstick antics go over-the-top. Director Lewis Carlino seems to think he's giving us something original. "Class" was lambasted at the time for an 11th-hour decision to edit out most of the seriousness in favor of the jokes, but heavy drama has no place in this story. What we're left with is the buddy-buddy stuff and the R-rated gags, but those don't work either. *1/2 out of ****