High School High (1996)

Director:

Hart Bochner

Writers (WGA):

David Zucker (written by) &
Robert LoCash (written by) ...

Release Date:

25 October 1996 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime | Romance

Tagline:

A Dangerous Mind is a terrible thing to waste

Plot:

Richard Clark has just left the well-known Wellington Academy to teach at Marion Barry High School. Now...

Plot Keywords:

School | High School | Attempted Rape | Criminal | Buxom

Cast

Jon Lovitz	...	Richard Clark
Tia Carrere	...	Victoria Chapell
Louise Fletcher	...	Principal Evelyn Doyle
Mekhi Phifer	...	Griff McReynolds
Malinda Williams	...	Natalie Thompson
Guillermo Díaz	...	Paco Rodriguez
Lexie Bigham	...	Two-Bags
Gil Espinoza	...	Alonzo
John Neville	...	Thaddeus Clark
Brian Hooks	...	Anferny Jefferson
Natasha Gregson Wagner	...	Julie Rubels
Marco Rodríguez	...	Mr. DeMarco
Nicholas Worth	...	Rhino
Eric Allan Kramer	...	Hulk
Lu Elrod	...	Miss Bernie Wells

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for crude sexual humor, partial nudity and some drug references.

Runtime:

86 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby | SDDS

Certification:

Iceland:L | Netherlands:MG6 | USA:PG-13 (certificate #34337) | Australia:M | Finland:K-10 | Germany:12 | Norway:11 (video rating) | Portugal:M/12 | South Korea:18 | Spain:7 | Sweden:11 | UK:15 | Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

TriStar Pictures

Trivia:

The film is dedicated to Elisabeth Leustig and Lexie Bigham.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Richard first goes into the classroom, he puts holes in the floors and walls. In the next scene, they're not there.

Quotes:

Richard Clark: Victoria, could you give me a ride home? I seem to have misplaced my car.
Victoria Chapell: Oh, don't worry about it. All the teachers loose their car on their first day.

Movie Connections:

References Casablanca (1942)

Soundtrack:

Froggy Style

It's Blackboard Jungle meets Airplane via a cafeteria nightmare

Underrated but lovable film which takes all the cliche high-school movie scenes (many of them awful), mixes large dollops of political incorrectness, throws in sophomore humor only a guy could love, and tops it off with a fun good-guys-win-in-the-end finale. Ever affable Lovitz and ever gorgeous Carrere are an oddly suitable couple and Fletcher is filthy evil (and that's before you know the ending). Lots of furious gags in the Zucker tradition (the school nurse stapling condoms to info cards is an example). Look for `The Hughley's' Eric Allan Kramer as a muscle man who likes to frisk just a wee-bit too much.