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6.2/10   9,190 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Rodney Dangerfield (story) &
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Release Date:
13 June 1986 (USA) more
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Registration starts Friday, June 13, at theaters everywhere.
Plot:
To help his discouraged son get through college, a funloving and obnoxious rich businessman decides to enter the school as a student himself. full summary | add synopsis
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Witty, fast, fun: a keeper more (63 total)

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96 min
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A menu item at the Tex-Mex restaurant Moe's Southwest Grill is called "The Triple Lindy" in honor of the dive Melon did. more
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Incorrectly regarded as goofs: While there is a clear diving double for Rodney Dangerfield, there is too big of a difference to be accidental, it is clearly a joke. more
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Thornton Melon: Girls, this is Lou. Lou, these are girls. more
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4 out of 5 people found the following comment useful.
Witty, fast, fun: a keeper, 26 February 2002
5/10
Author: Francisco Huerta (fjhuerta@hotmail.com) from Mexico City

A very funny film. Classic Rodney Dangerfield's one-liners mixed with some fun skits. The movie is awfully devoid of any plot, or semblance to reality to college life, but this doesn't detract from its overall crazyness. The thing that impresses the most here is Rodney's fast one-liners; not as crazy as Groucho's ones, but equally sarcastic and maddening.

"And remember: the best thing about our kids... is making 'em!"

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