Class of 1984
"We are the future!"
(1982)
Director: Mark Lester
Writer: Tom Holland
Genre: High School Sucks
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Plot Synopsis:
Don't mess with the band teacher! Preppy gang leader Stegman (Van Patten) and his band of evil miscreants (Patsy, Fallon, Drugstore & Barnyard) takes on the nebbish new music teacher at school, Mr. Norris (King) and loses horribly. Deeply embarrassing.
Favorite Moments:
- Alice Cooper's opening song, "I Am the Future"
- Roddy McDowall packing a pistol in the first scene.
Chekhov would be most proud.
- Arthur (Michael J. Fox) being molested by Patsy (Lisa Langlois)
- Death by flagpole! Curse you, angel dust and misplaced patriotism!
- Teenage Head playing at the Krash Kills nightclub
- Timothy Van Patten's gorgeous classical concerto ("Did I get the gig, teacher?")
- Roddy McDowall's toast "to the lower animals."
- "Stegman's a brilliant kid." "So is the Marquis de Sade."
- Death by bandsaw, gasoline and blowtorch, car crash and hanging!
- The escalating warfare between Norris and Stegman ("You've got to learn... life is pain... pain is everything.")
- Spawned two sequels: Class of 1999 and Class of 1999 II.
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