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- 1982
- R
- United Film Distribution Company (UFDC)
- 1 h 38 m
- 1982
- R
- United Film Distribution Company (UFDC)
- 1 h 38 m
Summary A new teacher at a troubled inner-city high school soon ends up clashing with the delinquent leader of a punk posse that runs the school.
Directed By: Mark L. Lester
Written By: Tom Holland, John C.W. Saxton, Barry Schneider, Mark L. Lester
- 1982
- R
- United Film Distribution Company (UFDC)
- 1 h 38 m
- 1982
- R
- United Film Distribution Company (UFDC)
- 1 h 38 m
Class of 1984
49
5.8
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Summary A new teacher at a troubled inner-city high school soon ends up clashing with the delinquent leader of a punk posse that runs the school.
Directed By: Mark L. Lester
Written By: Tom Holland, John C.W. Saxton, Barry Schneider, Mark L. Lester
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
49
18% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
55% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
27% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
49
18% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
55% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
27% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
It is violent, funny, scary, contains boldly outlined characters, and gets us involved. It also has a lot of style.
Violent update of The Blackboard Jungle.
Class Of 1984 anticipated Lean On Me, The Substitute, and a spate of other high-school thrillers and docudramas that advocated a fight-fire-with-fire approach to teen violence, but it’s vastly more entertaining.
Class of 1984 is sort of crudely funny. The movie's idea of punk culture is also picturesque. But it quickly gets worse and worse until it achieves a degree of awfulness that, though rare, isn't much fun.
No matter how much director Mark Lester attempts to hide his sermonizing behind sensationalistic-pedagogic terrorism, he does himself in whenever a jaded cop shrugs his shoulders and grunts, for the umpteenth time, What can we do, they’re juveniles?
One of the nastiest movies of our time, it pretends to be horrified by endemic violence in our schools while actually exploiting violence with a coldblooded cynicism that's worse than the violence itself. [30 Aug 1982, p.61]
Lester's film is so clearly about getting even rather than about troubled youth or any other societal problem that it seems, like Death Wish II and a hundred others, a waste of that energy. [16 Nov 1982, p.B4]
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Based on 10 User Ratings
5.8
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