Plot: In the summer of 1965, strict high-school Westwood's senior class in its privileged white suburb of L.A. graduates. Their relief to get out of the oppressive model of 'good American' behavior none actually adopted is soon spoiled. Surfer boy George Jr. 'Stick' is enlisting as volunteer for Vietnam, which is portrayed as a 'police action', panics on his last evening. Academic weakling Pirate, who intended to dodge a draft as drifter, suddenly faces the pregnancy of his lifelong true love Sunny. A spoiled 'princess' (also narrator) bitches because her parents want her to attend UCLA, not 'revolutionary' Berkeley. Calvin, the only black mate, lives in the poor quarter Watts, where the majority of his race plunders and attacks everyone, including class poet Michael Finnegan, whose family treated Calvin as an adopted son. Finnegan decides to symbolically deal with the hated school principal's patriotic pride, the Soldier statue...
Runtime: 99 mins
Release Date: 15 Sep 1994
Starcast: Dermot Mulroney, Ricky Schroder, Kelli Williams, Noah Wyle, Jill Schoelen, Kristin Minter, Lucy Deakins, Kenneth Ransom, Seymour Cassel, Paul Gleason, Frederick Coffin, Janet MacLachlan, Andrew Robinson, Humble Harve Miller, Shon Greenblatt, J.E. Freeman, Jo De Winter, Miguel A. Núñez Jr., David Labiosa, Ele Keats, Alan Haufrect, Gene Borkan, Nick Bronson, Ashley Mutrux, Chris Ufland, Christian Jacobs, Bill Williams, Glenn Lentz, Angelina Estrada, Shannon Wilcox, Everett Lamar, Sal Lopez, Evelyne Riebel, Janette Kaloustian, Mark Ruffalo, Brandi Burkett, Edward Swan, Russ O'Hara, Frances E. Williams, Chad Morton, Gilbert O. Parra, Wade Graham, Ken Wright, Eric Parra, John Haynes Walker, Ed Beechner, James Anella, James Willett, Dave Sebastian Williams, Mary Broussard, Paula Brown, Jennifer Page, Gae Thornton, Andrea Moen, Bonnie Baker, Audrey K. Baranishyn, Paula Ignatieff, Katerina Tana, Budd Carr, Robert Shapiro, Anne Archer, Robby George,
Director(s): Floyd Mutrux
Genre: Comedy, Drama, ,
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108320/
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IMDb Rating: 6.3/10 (1220 votes)
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