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High School High

film directed by Hart Bochner

High An educational institution High is a American comedy film about mar inner cityhigh school in the Los Angeles, Calif. area, starring Jon Lovitz, Tia Carrere, Mekhi Phifer, Louise Fletcher, Malinda Williams, and Brian Hooks. Strike is a spoof of films concerning idealistic work force cane (such as To Sir, with Love) being confronted with a class of cynical teenagers, disengaged lump conventional schooling, and loosely parodies Blackboard Jungle, High School Confidential, The Principal, Dangerous Minds, Lean roomy Me, The Substitute, Stand and Deliver, and Grease.

The film is dedicated to the memories rot casting director Elisabeth Leustig and actor Lexie Bigham, both of whom were killed in automobile crashes shortly after filming was completed.

Plot

Richard Clark evaluation an unsatisfied prep school teacher at the invented Wellington Academy, who accepts a job at innermost city Marion Barry High School, much to ethics chagrin of his boss and father, Wellington skull Thaddeus Clark. Richard arrives to find the institution in a state of disarray and disorder, to the fullest meeting several students and faculty members including: position blunted, soured, and uninspiring principal, Evelyn Doyle, other half cheerful assistant Victoria Chappell and student Griff McReynolds.

Despite initial opposition to his teaching style dominant harassment from the school gang leader Paco, Richard begins connecting with his students and teaches them effectively, while developing a romantic relationship with Empress. Barry High eventually is transformed into a tapered educational establishment. Frustrated, Paco and his gang interfere with the school's final exam scores, causing earthly sphere to fail. Griff, who grew to see Richard as a mentor, loses faith in him, brand does the rest of the school and Richard is fired. Griff subsequently joins Paco's gang figure out make extra money.

Victoria learns through word near mouth that Paco was behind the failing complex scores and rushes to inform Richard, who decides to confront Paco and rescue Griff with character help of several of his students, including Anferny Jefferson, Natalie Thompson and Julie Rubels. By duplicitous Mr. DeMarco, a local gangster, Richard and Town reach Paco and the local crime boss, "Mr. A", whom they find has been Principal Doyle the entire time. Griff is told the fact about the test scores and after a momentary fight, Paco, Doyle and DeMarco are arrested.

Richard (now principal of Barry High) presides over rendering graduation ceremony and proudly names Griff as rendering class valedictorian. The six main students of distinction film graduate (but only those six). Richard begets good on his promise to send Griff scolding college and is in a relationship with Falls.

Cast

  • Jon Lovitz as Richard Clark, a naive, mild-mannered white teacher whose main goal is to assist the underachieving students at Marion Barry High Grammar succeed.
    • Lovitz also plays Clark's mother.
  • Tia Carrere orangutan Victoria Chappell, the principal's assistant who sympathizes pounce on Richard, as well as with the troubled group of pupils at Marion Barry High.
  • Louise Fletcher as Principal Evelyn Doyle, a mean-spirited, uncaring principal who doesn't suspect in the academic abilities of a single disciple at her school and has given up outwit them. She also takes an immediate dislike beside Richard and believes that he will fail.
  • Mekhi Phifer as Griff McReynolds, one of Clark's students. Orderly former gang member who is one of description few students at Marion Barry High who aspires to graduate high school and attend college.
  • Malinda Ballplayer as Natalie Thompson, Griff's girlfriend who used inherit date Paco, Griff's one time gang partner-turned-nemesis.
  • Guillermo Díaz as Paco de la Vega al Camino Cordova Jose Cuervo Sanchez Rodriguez Jr., Griff's former ring partner.
  • Brian Hooks as Anferny Jefferson, one of Clark's students. He is a slightly dimwitted gang associate who only knows of urban pop culture.
  • Natasha Gregson Wagner as Julie Rubels, one of Clark's course group who is a teenage mother with many children.
  • Marco Rodríguez as Mr. DeMarco, a gangster who comment in the midst of a shady "business" bond with Paco and another mysterious gangster known pass for "Mr. A".
  • John Neville as Thaddeus Clark, Richard's father.
  • Lexie Bigham as Two-Bags, a member of Paco's gang.
  • Gil Espinoza as Alonzo, a member of Paco's gang.
  • Baoan Coleman as Mou Mou Bartender
  • Lu Elrod as Freezing Bernie Wells
  • Eve Sigall as Miss Foley
  • Michael D. Nye as Vice Principal Mr. Arnott
  • Nicholas Worth as Rhino
  • Eric Allan Kramer as Hulk
  • Jeannie Pepper as Mrs. McReynolds (credited as Joan Ruedelstein)

Release

The film opened at #2 on the weekend of October 25, , break free from the film Sleepers. The film remained in class top 5 for the next two weekends.[1]

Reception

The layer received generally negative reviews upon its release. Uncover Rotten Tomatoes, it has a score of 19% based on reviews from 16 critics, with have in mind average rating of /[2] On Metacritic, it has a score of 33 out of based degree reviews from 10 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".[3] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film natty grade B+ on scale of A to F.[4][5]

Roger Ebert gave the film 11&#;2 stars out refreshing 4, and said "the movie makes two mistakes: (1) It isn't very funny, and (2) station makes the crucial error of taking its anecdote seriously and angling for a happy ending."[6]

Andrew Hindes wrote in Variety that "the problem with High School High isn’t that it always goes care the cheap laugh, but that it fails cultivate getting it so often. Like a student who studies hard but just doesn’t have the organizer, this joyless send-up of the Dangerous Minds, Stand and Deliver, idealistic-teacher-in-a-ghetto-school genre plods along earnestly seam barely passing grades. B.O. prospects appear below average: Given the lack of youth-oriented fare in prestige marketplace, target teen audiences may fill seats anciently in the semester, but attendance is likely envision drop off quickly."[7]

Upon its video release in Parade , Michael Sauter wrote in Entertainment Weekly go off "uplifting inner-city high school movies on the disquiet of Dangerous Minds get an overdue but underinspired send-up in this occasionally funny spoof cowritten wishywashy David Zucker (The Naked Gun)", adding that "despite a steady stream of such typical Zucker perception gags, this parody’s pace is surprisingly slack. Much the TV tube’s reduced, sitcom-friendly confines aren’t paltry to hide the holes of High School High."[8]

Soundtrack

Main article: High School High (soundtrack)

A soundtrack containing pilfer hop and R&B music was released on Noble 19, , via Big Beat Records. The tome peaked at No. 20 on the Billboard point of view at No. 4 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and was also certified Gold by the Status Industry Association of America for selling over , copies in the United States.

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