Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "high school"

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River’s Edge **** (1986, Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Ione Skye, Roxana Zal, Daniel Roebuck, Dennis Hopper) – Classic Movie Review 5132

Director Tim Hunter’s notable 1986 cult success River’s Edge boasts outstanding, memorable eccentric acting turns from Dennis Hopper as Feck, a crippled drugs supplier, and Crispin Glover as Layne, a crazy customer. Neal Jimenez is […]

Mar, 10

High School High * (1997, Jon Lovitz, Tia Carriere, Louise Fletcher, John Neville, Mekhi Phifer) – Classic Movie Review 4995

Director Hart Bochner’s 1997 Zucker Brothers comedy is an impressively awful parody of Michelle Pfeiffer’s 1995 school film Dangerous Minds, with a charmless performance by Jon Lovitz, playing Richard Clark, the posh son of headmaster […]

Feb, 07

High School * (1940, Jane Withers, Joe Brown Jr, Lloyd Corrigan, Claire De Brey, Lynne Roberts, Paul Harvey) – Classic Movie Review 4996

Director George Nicholls Jr’s lame and unpersuasive 1940 20th Century Fox drama stars child star Jane Withers, who is now playing Jane Wallace, a difficult, rambunctious Texas ranch teenager sent by her dad (Paul Harvey) […]

Feb, 07

High School Confidential! [Young Hellions] ** (1958, Mamie Van Doren, Russ Tamblyn, Jan Sterling, John Drew Barrymore,, Jackie Coogan, Michael Landon) – Classic Movie Review 4963

Russ Tamblyn stars as an incredibly unlikely investigator into the corrupt High School youth of the day taking marijuana at Santo Bello High, in director Jack Arnold’s spectacularly trashy – and now funny – 1958 […]

Jan, 29

The Perfect Score ** (2004, Scarlett Johansson, Erika Christensen, Chris Evans, Bryan Greenberg, Matthew Lillard) – Classic Movie Review 4890

Director Brian Robbins’s decent 2004 youth drama cannot earn a perfect score, but it does win marks for trying. The screenplay by Marc Hyman, Jon Zack and Mark Schwahn tells a familiar yet friendly yarn, […]

Jan, 14

For Keeps? [Maybe Baby] *** (1988, Molly Ringwald, Randall Batinkoff, Kenneth Mars, Miriam Flynn, Conchata Ferrell, Sharon Brown, Dabney Coleman, Pauly Shore) – Classic Movie Review 4878

A well-matched Molly Ringwald and Randall Batinkoff star as starry-eyed high-school pupils Darcy (Ringwald) and Stan (Batinkoff), who are in love. But, when school swot Darcy gets unexpectedly pregnant, should the lovebirds pack up their […]

Jan, 11

Bachelorette ** (2012, Kirsten Dunst, Isla Fisher, Lizzy Caplan, James Marsden, Ann Dowd, Adam Scott, Hayes MacArthur) – Classic Movie Review 4771

  Kirsten Dunst, Isla Fisher, Lizzy Caplan star as three irresponsible mean girl bridesmaids who reunite for one last bachelorette party in the Big Apple on the night before the wedding of their old friend Becky […]

Dec, 07

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