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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0027616083135
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 14, 2007
Running Time: 97 minutes
Sales Rank: 525
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: June 13, 1986
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Rodney Dangerfield (Caddyshack Meet Wally Sparks) makes the grade with this laugh-riot comedy that's in a class of its own! Higher education will never be the same when co-stars Sally Kellerman Robert Downey Jr. Sam Kinison Ned Beatty and more join the maniac as he takes on the brainiacs! Thornton Melon's (Dangerfield) son is a college misfit so Thornton's lending some fatherly support...by enrolling as a fellow freshman! Who cares if the owner of the 'Tall and Fat' clothing empire never finished high school? Thornton's pockets are deep enough to buy a ticket to class...and hire NASA to do his homework! But when he ticks off his professorand then steals his girlfriendThornton takes things just a little too far. Now he'll have to hit the booksinstead of his bank accountor go back to being the world's wealthiest dropout! 'Dangerfield is sensational' (The Hollywood Reporter) in this howlingly funny comedy that scores an A+!Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: PG-13 UPC: 027616083135 Manufacturer No: M108313
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In the mid-1980s, standup comic Rodney Dangerfield underwent a renewed wave of popularity, finding a surprisingly enthusiastic baby-boomer audience. What else to do but make a movie that shows off Dangerfield's alternately knowing and boorish humor? This may not be on the AFI list of great films, but it delivers laughs aplenty in its story of a rough-edged tycoon who made his fortune in clothes for the stout and tall and decides to attend college in order to be closer to his son (Keith Gordon). There's not much plot, but lots of room for Dangerfield's one-line riffs. The goggle-eyed comic veteran displays surprising charm, enough to make his romance with professor Sally Kellerman believable. Look for cameos by late comedian Sam Kinison and author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. --Marshall Fine
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - back to school
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SIN:B000QQKVY8 Back To School (Extra-Curricular Edition)]]
my husband just loves silly movies.The sillier the better.
Rating:  - classic comedy
Great Movie to watch anytime of day. Classic Rodney at his best. Manages to workin a lot of his stage material throughout the movie. Also features a young Robert Downey Jr.
Rating: - Rodney's finest moment.
One of the better 80's comedies.
Juvenile, yes.
Funny, yes.
Not life changing or movie changing.
If your in the mood for a blast from the past chuckle.
Rent it, when the just released section is sold out.
Rating:  - Rodney Dangerfield's best film, with special thanks to Ned Beatty and Kurt Vonnegut
There's wide agreement that the three greatest American film comedies are It Happened One Night from 1934, The Lady Eve from 1941 and 1986's Back to School. Some might quibble that It Happened One Night is no match for Miss Congeniality when it comes to female snorting or that The Lady Eve doesn't have the consistent belly laughs of Turner & Hooch, nor does it have a lovable, slobbering dog unless one counts Henry Fonda. Back to School, however, remains one of a kind.
But seriously, ... Read More
Rating: - One of Rodney Dangerfield's finest films - but be sure you're getting the Extra-Curricular Edition!
Back To School is directed by Alan Metter. The film stars Rodney Dangerfield, Sally Kellerman, Burt Young, Keith Gordon, Robert Downey Jr., Paxton Whitehead, Sam Kinison, Terry Farrell, M. Emmet Walsh, Adrienne Barbeau, William Zabka, and Ned Beatty. Danny Elfman contributes the film's musical score.
Back To School is the story of Thornton Melon (Dangerfield), a man who got rich when he opened a chain of clothing stores that catered to larger people - appropriately called "Tall And Fat" ... Read More
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