Summer School

Name: Summer School
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Released: July 22, 1987
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 27
Cast: Kirstie Alley, Mark Harmon

1987

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SUMMER SCHOOL

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Paramount Pictures | Release Date: July 22, 1987

Starring: Kirstie Alley, Mark Harmon

Summary: High School coach Freddy Shoop (Harmon) has plans: summer in Hawaii. But the vice-principal has plans for Freddy, too. Teaching remedial English. Aloha, paradise. Hello, Summer School. Shoop and his class of likable misfits survive goof-ups and good times on the road to academic success... and the self-respect that goes with it. (Paramount)

Director: Carl Reiner

Genre(s): Comedy, Romance

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 97 min

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Los Angeles Times - Kevin Thomas

It's no thigh-slapper like the Rodney Dangerfield's "Back to School," but it's exceptionally good-natured and perceptive, and Harmon, in his first starring screen role, is a real charmer. [22 July 1987]

Washington Post - Rita Kempley

Proud to be junk food, but it still tackles the serious subjects of illiteracy, teen-age pregnancy and young adult alcoholism. [22 July 1987] Read full review

USA Today - Jack Curry

Summer School is like summer school: you go, then quickly realize you would much rather be doing something else. [22 July 1987]

San Francisco Chronicle - Mick LaSalle

Harmon proves that he can act stupid, and that's not enough to make the movie funny… You're supposed to like Freddy (Harmon), and you're supposed to like his brainless students… But you hate everybody. [24 July 1987]

Chicago Tribune - Dave Kehr

It has a lack of ambition and energy that is almost total: It's the most this movie can do to roll over and ask for a little more lotion on its back. [22 July 1987]

Washington Post - Desson Thomson

Here are some of Summer School's favorite things: idiocy, illiteracy, irresponsibility, drunkenness, dumbness and debauchery. Piqued? [24 July 1987] Read full review

Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert

A comedy so listless, leisurely and unspirited that it was an act of the will for me to care about it, even while I was watching it. Read full review

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