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Thornton Goes To College
Thornton Melon has a head for business. Even though he never went to college, he took the family tailoring business and transformed it into a chain of successful clothing stores. It's made Thornton (Rodney Dangerfield) a wealthy man who can send his son Jason (Keith Gordon) to the elite Grand Lakes... Read full review »
Shakespeare for Everyone!
It's a fact of life that as the years of our lives go by, we tend to fixate time on music, movies, beers (well I do), and basically anything that's important to us. Scientifically, I suppose it's a function of how the brain associates events, but for most of us I suppose it can be described simply... Read full review »
When NASA Does Your Science Homework . . .
Wealthy businessman, Thornton Melon, proud proprietor of the clothing store Tall and Fat has always dreamt of the chance to attend college and receive a higher education but alas, his dream never was. However, he has passed on his noble ambition to his naive son, Jason, in hopes that his... Read full review »
Don't just be a man, be a Melon! (Extra-Curricular Edition DVD review)
Here's an entry in Captain D's The Good Movies Epi Guide 2 write-off: http://www.epinions.com/content_5245804676.
The ten highest grossing movies of 1986 included Aliens and Ferris Bueller's Day Off, but they didn't even make the top five. Top Gun was number one, of course, with Crocodile...
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Lacks something...
During the 80's a lot of great movies came out. This was not one of them. I really neither like or dislike this movie I just think it lacks something. Maybe I judge it too much on the quality of the other movies of that decade.
Some of the good reasons to watch this movie are the cast...
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Back To School With Rodney Dangerfield
Back to School starring Rodney Dangerfield is absolutely hysterical. The plot takes a regular guy, Thornton Melon (played by Rodney Dangerfield), who goes back to college to prove something to his son who wants to drop out.
The entire story with Thornton Melon is one of a regular guy...
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Ahh, to be in the 80's again...
I love cheesy comedies from the 80?s. Sure, they have to have something special, some sort of chemistry that makes the movie ?work?, but as a rule of thumb, I dig plopping in front of the tube to watch them repeatedly. Before I continue, I think it?s only fair that I address a very valid complaint... Read full review »
On Rodney Dangerfield...
Alas, Rodney Dangerfield still gets no respect. Recently, the comic was denied membership to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, allegedly on the basis of his profane turn as an abusive father in Natural Born Killers. (Gee, I thought range and talent would be two guarantees of an... Read full review »
Rent it today
I grew up watching this movie. My Dad was a fan of Rodney Dangerfield, so I would watch this movie with him when it was on Television. I thought it was so funny then and I still do. Rodney Dangerfield can make anyone with laugh with his humble approach to himself through his comedy.
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Hory Teen Drama
This movie is funny in some senses when it shouldn't really be. I found it very amusing to see a younger version of the DS9 Sex Goddess Terry Farell in the film, however many of the intended jokes are fairly crude
and need at least a fairly silly mind to 'get'.
As a traditional story...
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Back to School
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 girlfriendThornto n 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+!
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Back to School [VHS]
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
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Back To School
Rodney Dangerfield's the B.M.O.C. in this uproarious tale of a self-made millionaire who decides to better himself by entering college with his son. It's an education in laughter for the audience; with Keith Gordon, Sally Kellerman, Robert Downey, Jr. 96 min. Standard and Widescreen; Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish Dolby Digital mono, French Dolby Digital stereo Surround; Subtitles: English, Spanish, French; theatrical trailer.
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