Toy Soldiers (1991)

When terrorists seize control of a boarding school, a group of troublemaking boys decide to resist them.

Director:

Daniel Petrie Jr.

Writers:

William P. Kennedy (novel), Daniel Petrie Jr. (screenplay),

Stars:

Sean Astin, Wil Wheaton, Keith Coogan

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Sean Astin	...	William 'Billy' Tepper
Wil Wheaton	...	Joseph 'Joey' Trotta
Keith Coogan	...	Jonathan 'Snuffy' Bradberry
Andrew Divoff	...	Luis Cali
R. Lee Ermey	...	General Kramer
Mason Adams	...	FBI Dep. Asst. Dir. Otis Brown
Denholm Elliott	...	Dr. Robert Gould - Headmaster
Louis Gossett Jr.	...	Dean Edward Parker
George Perez	...	Ricardo Montoya
T.E. Russell	...	Henry 'Hank' Giles III
Shawn Phelan	...	Derek 'Yogurt'
Michael Champion	...	Jack Thorpe
Tracy Brooks Swope	...	Jennifer (voice)
Max Manwell	...	HRT Commander
Joe Inscoe	...	Agent Grimes

Storyline

Billy Tepper is the leader of a group of rebellious boys at The Regis School. He has already been expelled from three prominent private schools. His best friend, Joey Trotta, is the son of the Head of the New York Mafia; Billy, all their friends and many other kids at the school have equally influential and prominent, if more law-abiding, parents. When Luis Cali's father is put in jail, he heads for the Regis School to put the son of the judge in charge of the case under hostage, only to find he has been removed. However, once he realises who the parents of the rest are, he decides the entire student body of the Regis School would be an even better bargaining chip.

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Plot Keywords:

trial | student | boarding school | hostage | terrorist | 

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Taglines:

Years of bad behaviour are about to pay off.

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Genres:

Action | Drama | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for violence and language

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

26 April 1991 (USA)

Also Known As:

A terror iskolája

Filming Locations:

Miller School of Albemarle - 1000 Samuel Miller Loop, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

Box Office

Gross:

$15,073,942 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Island World, TriStar Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

111 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The "boys" who bought the adulterated mouthwash, ("Mr Burg, Mr Zarpas - Billy Tepper sold you a bottle of mouthwash with vodka in it... you have three seconds to hand it out here.") are two of this films' producers, Mark Burg and Chris Zarpas.

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Goofs

A terrorist shoots the phone booths as a student is calling 911. At the end of the film, when Cali is dragging Billy to the office, the phone booths are undamaged.

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Quotes

William "Billy" Tepper: They're going to shoot five kids if I don't go back.
Military Officer: They're going to shoot you if you do go back.

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Connections

Referenced in The Cinema Snob: Crackerjack (2013)

User Reviews

A Very Good Movie and should deserve the same amount attention as Die Hard and Hostage!

I first seen this movie like a year and a half ago and I loved it, I decided to get the DVD last year for my birthday.. It has the right amount of suspense, action and drama.. This movie is about prep school called The Regis School and its packed with rebellious kids, in which one kid William Tepper (Sean Astin) has a hard time adjusting due to prior rejections from other schools cause they couldn't control his rebellious act and now at The Regis School committing more acts of a rebellion there school gets taken over by terrorists on a random day and which the real reason is because the leader Luis Cali's (Andrew Divoff) father has been sent to prison,and the leader will do anything including killing the students, setting bombs and so forth in order to get his father back.

Along side William Tepper, is his rebellious friends at the Regis School, one in particular is Joey Trotta (Wil Wheaton) in which this guy holds a troubled past of living in a Mafia family and being sent to The Regis School because of hating his father for who he is and which now he must deal with these terrorists taking over the school, so William, Joey and there friends must band together to stop these terrorists from violent acts and hazardous tactics.

This movie was really awesome and I believe people should notice it more because when people think of a good hostage movie they would say "Die Hard" and even though I would have to agree with them, they need to recognize that Toy Soldiers was a good thriller, it sure had my heart beating because the students are my age and I would be scared to confront terrorists like these if they took over our school ... But overall this movie is really worth a good 112 minutes of your time and If I had a decision to rent or buy it... I WOULD BUY IT! I recommend it with a lot of hype! 8/10