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Up the Academy

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Up the Academy
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R,1hr 36min
Genre:
Comedy
Release:
1980
Director:
Robert Downey, Sr.
Distributor:
Warner Home Video
Starring:
Wendell Brown, Tom Citera, J. Hutchinson  ...more
Synopsis: A teen comedy that does not quite rise to the level of that age group, this uninspired story features Ron Liebman as the Major, a sadistic instructor at a military school. Ralph Macchio (before his 1984 hit, Karate Kid) and other teens of every stripe suffer through the indignities heaped on them by the Major and do their best with the sexual, ethnic, and racial stereotypes that the script gives them to handle. Robert Downey directs, Tom Patchett and Jay Tarses wrote the screenplay. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, ... Full Synopsis
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Donald Guarisco, AMG Review
Mad Magazine's attempt at a comedy film fails to capture the madcap spirit of the magazine and instead comes off like a third-rate knockoff of National Lampoon's Animal House. The script by t.v. comedy vets Tom Patchett and Jay Tarses lacks the specific details or inspired characterizations necessary to make the story take off, instead settling for a string of tired comedy cliches. One might have expected ... Full Review
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