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A new transfer student to St. Basil's Boys' Prep School tries to fit in while romantically pursuing a troubled young girl.A new transfer student to St. Basil's Boys' Prep School tries to fit in while romantically pursuing a troubled young girl.A new transfer student to St. Basil's Boys' Prep School tries to fit in while romantically pursuing a troubled young girl.
Jennifer Dundas
- Boo
- (as Jennie Dundas)
Al Cerullo
- Pilot
- (as Al Cerullo Jr.)
- Director
- Writer
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- TriviaFilm debut of actors Kevin Dillon, Patrick Dempsey, Stephen Geoffreys, Yeardley Smith, and Maggie Wagner
- GoofsThough set in 1965, virtually every school bus in the film was manufactured in the late-1970s and early-1980s. Most of them were built on truck cowls that didn't exist at the time, and contained features such as amber flashing lights next to the red ones above the windshield, which didn't exist in New York State until 1973.
- ConnectionsFeatured in At the Movies: Heaven Help Us/The Mean Season/The Breakfast Club (1985)
- SoundtracksHallelujah Chorus
Written by George Frideric Handel (as Georg Friedrich Händel)
Performed by The Roches
Courtesy of Warner Bros. Records
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Watching this movie takes me back to my own experiences in a Catholic elementary school during the 1960's. My school was coed but the nuns were just as bad as the priests. One priest I recall making boys crawl around the auditorium on their hands and knees, or stand for prolonged periods with their noses pressed against a wall. Humiliation was a favorite tactic,also. Whoever wrote the screenplay knew the rituals very well- the opening sequence was exactly what we did every Friday afternoon. I loved the clicker trick- wish one of our kids had done that! When the whole school explodes into applause as Dunn decks Brother Clarence, it feels like victory. The soundtrack is wonderful...good ol' 60's R and B!
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $6,070,794
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,235,687
- Feb 10, 1985
- Gross worldwide
- $6,070,794
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