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Title: The Faculty (1998)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Jordana Brewster | ... | Delilah Profitt | |
| Clea DuVall | ... | Stokely 'Stokes' Mitchell | |
| Laura Harris | ... | Marybeth Louise Hutchinson | |
| Josh Hartnett | ... | Zeke Tyler | |
| Shawn Hatosy | ... | Stan Rosado | |
| Salma Hayek | ... | Nurse Rosa Harper | |
| Famke Janssen | ... | Miss Elizabeth Burke | |
| Piper Laurie | ... | Mrs. Karen Olson | |
| Christopher McDonald | ... | Mr. Frank Connor (as Chris McDonald) | |
| Bebe Neuwirth | ... | Principal Valerie Drake | |
| Robert Patrick | ... | Coach Joe Willis | |
| Usher | ... | Gabe Santora (as Usher Raymond) | |
| Jon Stewart | ... | Prof. Edward Furlong | |
| Daniel von Bargen | ... | Mr. John Tate | |
| Elijah Wood | ... | Casey Connor | |
On the Harrington High School in Ohio, the newcomer Marybeth Louise Hutchinson tries to befriend the outcast Stokely 'Stokes' Mitchell. The quarterback Stan Rosado quits the football team and breaks off with his girlfriend Delilah Profitt, who is the editor of the school newspaper and head cheerleader. Zeke Tyler, who is repeating the senior year and sells drugs to the other students, has an argument with his teacher Elizabeth Burke. When the bullied Casey Connor finds a weird being on the football field, he brings it to his Professor Edward Furlong that finds that the unknown specimen lives in the water and has the ability of replicating. Later, Delilah brings Casey, who is the photographer of the newspaper and has a crush on her, to the faculty room to snoop around and find any evidence for a story, they need to hide in a closet when Coach Joe Willis and the teacher Karen Olson arrive. Delilah and Casey witness the coach and the teacher attacking Nurse Rosa Harper and they stumble ... Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
This film fuses elements of the Breakfast Club with Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Robert Rodrigues makes entertaining films, and does so consistently. The Faculty is no exception, though the formula is radically different from his standard approach. In place of large guns, spectacular stunt choreography and a silly soundtrack, Rodrigues made "The Faculty" with a classy ensemble cast and some awesome special effects. The script is also very good, featuring strong characterization and interesting dialog. All of these elements make The Faculty a very watchable film, and make up for the completely unoriginal and not very coherent plot.
The film begins as a paranoiac comedy about a typical high school where the students and faculty see each other as alien species. Ho hum. However, after about 20 minutes of set-up, the faculty really starts to become an alien species, as they are assimilated by water-loving parasites with very bad attitudes and a kind of group consciousness straight out of Invasion of The Body Snatchers and Star Trek's Borg. Six kids, very unlikely team-mates representing the archetypal teenage personalities of the postmodern world, team up to try to save the world, once they realize that the aliens can be driven off by, of all things, caffeine. Especially impressive are Elijah Wood, Piper Laurie, Robert Patrick, Josh Hartnett and Clea DuVall.
Like most of Rodrigues' films, The Faculty never loses its sense of humor, and pulls off its own absurdity with artful visualization and a tight, driving pace. Unlike many of Rodrigues' films, however, The Faculty is disposable - it's not really meant to be viewed more than once. See it if you're a Rodrigues fan, or somebody who enjoys the obscure but growing genre of horror-comedy.