Class (1983) on Netflix
Jonathan, a naive Midwesterner, arrives at a prestigious Illinois prep school and rooms with Skip. Skip sends him to a Chicago club, where the older Ellen takes an interest.
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Plot summary
Jonathan Ogner arrives at Vernon Academy, a boys' preparatory school in Illinois, and is mocked for wearing his uniform. His roommate, Skip Burroughs, tricks him into crossing campus in girls' underwear; Jonathan answers with a prank of his own, and the two become friends. The pair trade secrets, and Jonathan admits he cheated on the SAT. Skip's attempts to find Jonathan a date at school go nowhere. He sends Jonathan to Chicago to gain sexual experience, and there Ellen, an older woman, picks him up. Jonathan claims to be a doctoral student, and the two begin an affair. He falls for her, while she treats it as a fling.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Class (1983)
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- Jacqueline Bisset took over the role of Ellen Burroughs from Lesley Ann Warren, then lost the scenes that explained her character, among them an ending in which her son visits her in a mental hospital.
- Virginia Madsen said in 2013 that the young actors were cruel to her and the shoot left bad memories. Rob Lowe agreed, calling her big scene, in which her shirt is ripped off, a shoehorned-in Porky's-style moment, and asked who could put up with him, John Cusack, Alan Ruck and Andrew McCarthy at 18.
- The film handed out an unusual number of first screen roles at once: Andrew McCarthy, John Cusack, Virginia Madsen, Casey Siemaszko and Lolita Davidovich all made their film debuts in it, four months after Rob Lowe appeared in The Outsiders.
