High School USA
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | High School USA |
| Original title | High School USA |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1983 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rodney Amateau |
| script |
Alan Eisenstock , Larry Mintz |
| production | Alan Eisenstock, Larry Mintz |
| music |
Tony Berg Miles Goodman |
| camera |
Jack Whitman Hal Trussell (uncredited) |
| cut | John Cortland |
| occupation | |
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High School USA is a 1983 American comedy film . The television movie first aired on NBC on October 16, 1983 . Some of the main cast were popular sitcom actors by the early 1980s. They include Todd Bridges and Dana Plato ( Any Questions Arnold? ), Nancy McKeon ( The Facts of Life ), and Michael J. Fox ( Family Ties ).
action
The subject of the film is the argument between Beau Middleton and Jay Jay Manners. Both are students at Excelsior Union High School and could hardly be more different. Middleton, the son of wealthy parents, is held in high regard at the school. He knows about his status, sees himself as the "king of the school" and lets teachers and students dance to his tune. Manners, on the other hand, comes from a poor background and has not seen his parents for years.
Manners has a crush on Beth Franklin, who is Middleton's girlfriend. This is the trigger for minor disputes in which Manners and Middleton clash again and again. In order to finally settle the conflict, the two decide to hold a car race, which is to take place in front of the assembled students. Middletons' attempts to prevent the race from taking place in the first place by sabotage fail because of the solidarity and ingenuity of Manners and his friends. Manners emerges as the winner of the race, wins the affection of Beth Franklin and thus destroys Middleton's “sole rule” of Excelsior Union High.
background
Michael J. Fox (Jay Jay) and Crispin Glover (Archie) were selected to star in the 1985 film Back to the Future . Fox plays Marty McFly and Glover plays his father George.
Many television stars of the 1950s and 1960s star in this film in supporting roles, including Tony Dow , Frank Bank and Ken Osmond from Growing Up You Should Be , Angela Cartwright from Make Room for Daddy and Disappeared Between Alien Worlds , Dwayne Hickman from The Bob Cummings Show and The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis , Bob Denver from The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis and Gilligans Insel , Dick York from In Love with a Witch, and David Nelson from The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet .
Reviews
“The girls & boys on the rally course may freak out, the viewer leans back in an armchair, rather bored, as this teen slapstick offers little more than clichés and banalities. Young star Michael J. Fox shot an abundance of TV series and puberty clothes before he made his big break with the box office hit "Back to the Future". "
"Banal entertainment film that strings together well-known teenage clichés and hardly ever achieves independence."
Web links
- High School USA in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.cinema.de, accessed on September 9, 2009
- ^ High School USA In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .