Class (1983)

Director:

Lewis John Carlino

Writers:

Jim Kouf (written by) &
David Greenwalt (written by)

Release Date:

6 July 1983 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

Tagline:

The good news is, Jonathan's having his first affair. The bad news is, she's his roommate's mother!

Plot:

Jonathan, a naive country boy, gets a scholarship to a classy prep school, where he rooms with suave...

Plot Keywords:

Prep School | Mother | School | Teenage Boy | Panties

Cast

Jacqueline Bisset	...	Ellen Burroughs
Rob Lowe	...	Franklin 'Skip' Burroughs IV
Andrew McCarthy	...	Jonathan Ogner
Cliff Robertson	...	Mr. Burroughs
Stuart Margolin	...	Balaban
John Cusack	...	Roscoe Maibaum
Alan Ruck	...	Roger Jackson
Rodney Pearson	...	Allen
Remak Ramsay	...	Kennedy
Virginia Madsen	...	Lisa
Deborah Thalberg	...	Susan
Fern Persons	...	Headmistress DeBroul
Casey Siemaszko	...	Doug
Aaron Douglas	...	Barry
Anna Maria Horsford	...	Maggie

Runtime:

98 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour (Astrocolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:12 | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:18A | Canada:PA (Manitoba) | Australia:M | Argentina:16 | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:R | West Germany:12

Filming Locations:

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Company:

Orion Pictures Corporation

Trivia:

Feature debuts of Andrew McCarthy, Alan Ruck, John Cusack, Casey Siemaszko, Virginia Madsen and Lolita Davidovich.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Skip is telling Jonathan about the time he shot and killed a guy, he reaches into the fridge and takes out an apple with his left hand and and goes to take a bite, when the camera does a close up the apple has moved to his right hand.

Quotes:

Skip: Next time you're feelin' sad and blue, don't expect old Skipper here to put on his big red nose and floppy shoes just pour vous. Adios? Mr Morose.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Retrosexual: The 80's" (2004)

Soundtrack:

Little Drummer Boy

Teenage Sex-Farse with a serious side.

Though this movie was clearly designed to have mass-market teen appeal, it has a serious side that makes it stand out from other movies of the same type. The premise, a teenage boy's first sexual encounter turns out to be with his roommate's mother, is contrived to arouse curiosity among adolescents. Combine this with unsophisticated humor and flaunting of authority and you have the formula for a popular teen romp. But it seems that there is a movie with some sensitivity and drama trapped within this rather restrictive framework. The boy is torn between his friendship with his roommate and his relationship with his friend's mother. The woman is repressed and intimidated by her husband and finds a sense of freedom in this forbidden relationship which she can't seem to let go. The result is a movie that tries to be both a high school date movie of the week and an adult drama, landing somewhat awkwardly somewhere in the middle. It does have some laughs though and some before-they-were-famous appearances that might make it worth while.