ebiros2
One of the better teen movies from the '80s. "Class" along with half a dozen movies are now the classic of teen movies from that era.The movie looks very innocent by today's standards. There's no worries about getting into violent situations at school, and kids could focus on - women. This movie probably made Andrew McCarthy and Rob Lowe a star. Surprise to me was that John Cusak was also in this movie.Today, the movie would have to star someone who's 5-6 years younger to have any kind of realism to it. Jaquiline Bisset is kind of an ideal "hot" mom for the situation.The movie is on bit darker side for a movie made in the '80s, but the story is good, and you get the feel of the culture.This is definitely one of the best teen movies from the '80s, and you wouldn't want to miss it if you're an '80s movie fan.
ella11223344
I give this movie two ratings: The serious sex scenes between the mother and Jonathon, a 2 The hilarious school scenes with Jonathon and Skip, a 10I love all the school scenes: When Jon comites "suicide", when Skip tells the story of how he killed a person, the first scene when Jonothan wears a bikini and the scene when the kids are trying to shove pot down the sink and toilet(one guy actually tries to put a pot plant down the sink) All the sex scenes are retarded. REALLY boring. I literally fast forwarded those partsI really love this movie even though some of it is real stupid, plus Rob Lowe is beautiful, so it makes it worth while
bkoganbing
Class made a ton of money back in the day with Brat Pack king Rob Lowe starring in another teen film about some oversexed adults and undersexed young men. In this case the undersexed one is Andrew McCarthy who gets some love lessons from Jacqueline Bisset who is also Lowe's mother. Which makes it all nice and cozy.McCarthy is a young country kid who wins a scholarship to an exclusive boy's prep school which is mostly inhabited by to the manor born types like Lowe. In fact Lowe has the ultimate prep school name of Skip.Around women McCarthy makes Inspector Clousseau look like Errol Flynn and Lowe gives him some fateful advice about trying to hook up at a certain bar on Rush Street in Chicago where there are lots of women who are as longing as he is. Unfortunately one of them happens to be his mother and that's who McCarthy does it with. Right in one of those glass elevators.Class veers uncomfortably back and forth from comedy to drama without any warning. The values of the Reagan era are upheld here, especially by Cliff Robertson as solid a venture capitalist as you'll ever find and Lowe's father. He's treating his wife like another of his possessions like his mansion or his yacht and no wonder she's looking for love in all the wrong places.As we see noted, a whole lot of people like Andrew McCarthy, John Cusack, Casey Siemaszko, Lolita Davidovitch, and Virginia Madsen all made their screen debuts. That is probably what Class will go down in movie annals for.
moonspinner55
Failed cross-pollination of "The Graduate" with any number of frat-house romps does have one thing going for it: Rob Lowe (pre-"St. Elmo's Fire") gives a loose, frenetic performance as a prep-school student whose unstable mother has a secret affair with Lowe's roommate. As he got older, Lowe tended to lean heavily on his male-model good looks, resulting in some posturing performances. This vehicle for him and newcomer Andrew McCarthy is doomed, however. It wants to be a T&A comedy, a sensitive tale of friendship, and a slightly naughty love story between an older woman and a younger man. The romance is unpleasant from the outset, with Jacqueline Bisset TOO convincing as 40-ish trollop with mental problems. Bisset is definitely in the spirit of the thing, but it's a distressing role for the classy actress, who every once in a while stepped into the gutter. The kids are convincingly callow, but their slapstick antics go over-the-top. Director Lewis Carlino seems to think he's giving us something original. "Class" was lambasted at the time for an 11th-hour decision to edit out most of the seriousness in favor of the jokes, but heavy drama has no place in this story. What we're left with is the buddy-buddy stuff and the R-rated gags, but those don't work either. *1/2 out of ****
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