Back to School
First screened in the mid 1980s / Most recently screened in August 2025
Director: Alan Metter. Cast: Rodney Dangerfield, Keith Gordon, Sally Kellerman, Paxton Whitehead, Burt Young, Robert Downey Jr., William Zabka, Terry Farrell, Adrienne Barbeau, Ned Beatty, M. Emmet Walsh, Sam Kinison, Robert Picardo, Severn Darden, Edie McClurg, Kurt Vonnegut. Screenplay: Steven Kampmann, Will Porter, PJ Torokvei, and Harold Ramis (based on a screen story by Rodney Dangerfield, Greg Fields, and Dennis Snee).
In Brief:
Hard to defend as a piece of work but easy to enjoy as 90 fleet, silly minutes. A party balloon. Kellerman's great.
VOR:③
Dangerfield really does get no respect. Which is not impossible to understand. But this is as good an emblem of his style as any. And much imitated today.
