Class of 1984 (1982) on Netflix
Andrew Norris takes a music post at Lincoln High School, where guards scan students and Peter Stegman's gang runs the halls. Norris wants an orchestra; Stegman will not give up the school.
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Plot summary
Andrew Norris joins the staff at Lincoln High School, an inner city school where guards frisk and scan everyone who comes through the door. On his first day he meets Terry Corrigan, another teacher, who is carrying a gun and says Andrew will learn why the protection is necessary. Graffiti covers the halls, and Andrew is told to patrol them during his free periods. Peter Stegman and four friends disrupt his first class, though only Peter is enrolled in it. The gang deals drugs at the school. Andrew finds students who do want to learn, among them Arthur on trumpet and Deneen on clarinet, and he plans an orchestra with his more advanced players.
Cast
- Neil Cliffordas Fallon
- David Gardneras Principal Morganthau
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Class of 1984 (1982)
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- Mark Lester got the idea after revisiting his old school, Monroe High, and seeing how much it had changed, with the delinquency drama The Blackboard Jungle in the back of his mind.
- The ratings board first gave the film an X; cuts brought it down to an R in America, while an X-rated version went out in foreign markets.
- The British Board of Film Classification took four minutes and fourteen seconds out of the film, then refused it a video certificate four years later. Several countries banned it outright, and it was not passed fully uncut in Britain until 2005.
- Finland banned the theatrical version in 1983 and the case climbed as far as the Supreme Administrative Court; an edited video release was banned too, in 1984, and an uncut DVD was finally approved with an 18 rating in 2006.
- Timothy Van Patten, who plays the gang leader Stegman, wrote and performed Stegman's concerto himself. The piece resurfaced decades later on the UK music competition series The Piano, played by a music-school dinner lady at Liverpool Street Station in London.
