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24 October 1986 (USA) moreTagline:
A comedy with heart and soul. morePlot:
To achieve his dream of attending Harvard, a pampered teen poses as a young black man to receive a full scholarship. full summary | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Isaac Hayes: Hot Buttered Soul (From PasteMagazine. 7 July 2009, 6:00 AM, PDT)
New to DVD: 'W.', 'Soul Men,' 'Back to the Future'
(From Get The Big Picture. 10 February 2009, 4:23 AM, PST)
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Silly, but very funny moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| C. Thomas Howell | ... | Mark Watson | |
| Rae Dawn Chong | ... | Sarah Walker | |
| Arye Gross | ... | Gordon Bloomfeld | |
| James Earl Jones | ... | Professor Banks | |
| Melora Hardin | ... | Whitney Dunbar | |
| Leslie Nielsen | ... | Mr. Dunbar | |
| Ann Walker | ... | Mrs. Dunbar | |
| James Sikking | ... | Bill Watson (as James B. Sikking) | |
| Max Wright | ... | Dr. Aronson | |
| Jeff Altman | ... | Ray McGrady | |
| Julia Louis-Dreyfus | ... | Lisa Stimson | |
| Maree Cheatham | ... | Mrs. Dorothy Watson (as Marie Cheatham) | |
| Wallace Langham | ... | Barky Brewer (as Wally Ward) | |
| Eric Schiff | ... | Booey Fraser | |
| Ron Reagan | ... | Frank |
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Iceland:L | USA:PG-13 ([#28314]) | Australia:PG | Finland:K-8 | Sweden:7 | UK:15 (video rating) (uncut) (1987) | UK:PG (original rating) (cut) | West Germany:6 | Singapore:PG | Australia:M (cable rating)Filming Locations:
Wheaton College - 26 E. Main Street, Norton, Massachusetts, USAFun Stuff
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C Thomas Howells' father, Chris Howell, did the stunts for this movie. moreQuotes:
Gordon Bloomfeld: Objection!Professor Banks: To what?
Gordon Bloomfeld: Quite frankly, to your tone of voice.
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I remember watching this in my early teens, and thinking it was one of the funniest films that I had seen. Watching it again over 10 years later, its still pretty funny. In the age of political correctness it probably has quite poor taste, but thats not its intention. Its a lightweight comedy, and thats the way it should be taken. There are a few moments where a message and moral does come through, especially in the later half of the film. This adds to the films charm, as well as giving people a fairly superficial albeit correct notion of the social struggle faced by some races. C Thomas Howell was very good in this film, and I feel that its a shame that he does not make that many feature films these days- he seems to appear a lot in direct to video films. It was also interesting to watch Julia Louis-Dreyfuss in her very pre-Seinfeld days, before she became Elaine. This really is a funny film, very unbelievable but heaps better than the lame comedies that the big studios are serving up these days.