Rent Class of 1984 (1982)
3.3 of 5 from 76 ratings
1h 34min
- General info
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- Synopsis:
- This genre classic predicted today's epidemic of violence in schools...'Class of 1984' follows mild-mannered music teacher Andy Norris (Perry King) who makes the mistake of standing up to the thugs at notorious 'Lincoln High', a school overrun with delinquents. Tough kid, Peter will stop at nothing to protect his turf, run drugs, pimp girls and keep the school living in fear. As the battle between teachers and students intensifies someone is going to be taught a lesson they will never forget...
- Actors:
- Perry King, Merrie Lynn Ross, Timothy Van Patten, Roddy McDowall, Stefan Arngrim, Michael J. Fox, Keith Knight, Lisa Langlois, Neil Clifford, Al Waxman, Erin Noble, David Gardner, Steve Pernie, Robert Reece, Joseph Kelly, Elva Mai Hoover, Vincent Abbatino, Evan Green, Linda Sorensen, Claude Rae
- Directors:
- Mark L. Lester
- Producers:
- Arthur Kent
- Writers:
- Tom Holland, Mark L. Lester
- Studio:
- Mosaic Entertainment
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Drama, Thrillers
- Collections:
- All the Twos: 1972-2012, A Brief History of Film...
- Countries:
- Canada
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 25/02/2019
- Run Time:
- 98 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Stereo
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Life is Pain... An interview with writer Tom Holland
- Commentary with director Mark L. Lester
- Do What You Love - A career retrospective of Perry King
- History Repeats Itself - An interview with director Mark Lester and composer Lalo Schifrin
- Blood and Blackboards - Interviews with cast and crew
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Reviews (2) of Class of 1984
Punks, Flick-Knives and a Trumpet - Class of 1984 review by griggs
Imagine the gangs from The Warriors turning up to terrorise double maths while Marty McFly on a school exchange from the 1950s plays the trumpet. That’s Class of 1984 — a film that thinks it’s a grim cautionary tale but plays more like a comic-book scrap staged in detention.
The new teacher arrives brimming with ideals, only to find the place run by punkish thugs who look old enough to be paying mortgages. Violence escalates, the amps crank up, and soon we’re knee-deep in switchblades, synths and melodrama cooked so thoroughly it’s practically cremated.
Yes, there are flashes of menace and moments of camp fun, but its message — schools are war zones, adults are clueless — is scrawled on the walls in graffiti and underlined with flick-knives. Bloody, daft, and oddly watchable, but in the end it gets lost in the noise of its own chaos.
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Original High School '80s Drama Horror - Class of 1984 review by EP
This is a fictional film about an '80s high school with lots of issues...underachievers, delinquents, odd people etc.
The film is really about a decent music teacher doing his best in the face of huge adversity at the hands of a teenage gang who want to run the school with pretty violent means.
Rather than give-in the teacher rises to the challenge and it gets quite tense then builds to an ultimate crescendo when the teacher has had enough and takes the fight single handedly to the gang members one by one.
It is a good film which has some of the usual American 80s teen vibes and soundtrack but then takes it up to an 18 certificate and more like a horror film by the end.
It feels a bit low-budget at times in the way it was produced but the characters are really strongly acted and strangely it feels right because some 80s horror films look similar so it oddly it adds to the 80s horror suspense.
Overall not bad at all and it had me thinking back to it a few days later as although it is a fiction, some schools in UK are probably not far off this dystopia 40ish years on...
It also has Michael J Fox's first film appearance credited as Michael Fox.
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