High School U.S.A. (1983) on Netflix
At Excelsior Union High School, J.J. Manners falls for Beth Franklin, who is dating Beau Middleton. Beau is the class president, the football team's quarterback and the richest student.
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Plot summary
Beau Middleton has alienated most of the students at Excelsior Union High School in Missouri, where he is the class president, the quarterback and the richest of them. He drives a Porsche 911 convertible. J.J. Manners sets his sights on Beau's girlfriend, Beth Franklin, and the two compete for her affections. Otto is a genius who has built a robot he believes can travel into space, and Archie Feld is uneasy about girls while his friends struggle with their own romances. Beau's father offers the teachers a sizable reward for the best among them, and they work to impress Beau with their worthiness.
Cast
- Frank Bankas Mr. Gerardi
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about High School U.S.A. (1983)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Stand-up comedian and future Mystery Science Theater 3000 creator Joel Hodgson was asked to be one of the stars of the proposed series based on High School U.S.A. He turned it down because he thought the material was bad; when the network raised its offer, he decided Hollywood was too shallow and quit the industry until he created MST3K in 1987.
- The pilot for a High School U.S.A. series marked the last acting roles of Ricky Nelson, who joined the cast with his mother Harriet Nelson, and of Dick York, who came in with other classic TV stars such as Batman's Burt Ward and Julie Newmar.
- Michael J. Fox met Nancy McKeon on the set of High School U.S.A., and the two dated for a while. They later starred together in another TV movie, Poison Ivy.
