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Summer School

1987, Movie, PG-13, 98 mins

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Freddy Shoop (Mark Harmon) is a lazy teacher looking forward to a vacation in Hawaii, but when a fellow teacher (Carl Reiner) wins big bucks in a lottery, Shoop is forced to teach his summer school class. The class is one for slow learners, and naturally, is filled with an assortment of misfits, malcontents, and clowns. Can he shape them up? Obviously not too many people cared as this tepid comedy did little box office business, marking another failure in Harmon's attempt to... read more leave a comment
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Length: 02:06
Posted: 3/21/2009
A high-school teacher is forced to take on a summer remedial reading class filled with an assortment of characters. Television actors Harmon and Alley fare well here!
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Posted: 3/17/2008
Schools out, and Ocean Front High gym teacher Freddy Shoop (Mark Harmon) has big plans: summer in Hawaii. But the schools vice-principal has plans for Freddy, too: teaching remedial English. Aloha paradise - hello, Summer School. Director Carl Reiner (All Of Me, The Jerk) delighted fans and critics alike with this warm, perceptive comedy about a laid-back teacher (Harmon) relegated to teaching a class of likeable misfits, including a slasher-flick addict (Dean Cameron), his wacky sidekick (Gary Riley), and a sexy female surfer (Courtney Thorne-Smith) of TVs Ally McBeal and Melrose Place). Kirstie Alley (TVs Cheers and Veronicas Closet) is the no-nonsense history professor down the hall whos keeping an eye on all the shenanigans - and on the handsome, irresistible Freddy. The road to academic success has never been bumpier, but to earn straight As in laughtertake Summer School.
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Length: 01:37:28
Posted: 2/10/2009
School's out, and Ocean Front High gym teacher Freddy Shoop (Mark Harmon) has big plans: summer in Hawaii. But the school's vice-principal has plans for Freddy, too: teaching remedial English. Aloha paradise - hello, Summer School. Director Carl Reiner (All Of Me, The Jerk) delighted fans and critics alike with this warm, perceptive comedy about a laid-back teacher (Harmon) relegated to teaching a class of likeable misfits, including a slasher-flick addict (Dean Cameron), his wacky sidekick (Gary Riley), and a sexy female surfer (Courtney Thorne-Smith) of TV's Ally McBeal and Melrose Place). Kirstie Alley (TV's Cheers and Veronica's Closet) is the no-nonsense history professor down the hall who's keeping an eye on all the shenanigans - and on the handsome, irresistible Freddy. The road to academic success has never been bumpier, but to earn straight "A's" in laughter...take Summer School.
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Length: 01:38:00
Posted: 11/5/2008
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Year: 1987
Rated PG-13

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Cast
Mark Harmon: Freddy Shoop
Kirstie Alley: Robin Bishop
Robin Thomas: Phil Gills
Patrick Labyorteaux: Kevin Winchester
Courtney Thorne-Smith: Pam House
Dean Cameron: Francis "Chainsaw" Gremp

 

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