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<body> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="800" cellpadding="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="100" rowspan="2" background="../stylepix/square.gif" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="2"></td> <td width="592" valign="top"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="592"> <tr> <td width="100%">  </td> </tr> </table>    <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="205" align="right"> <tr> <td width="100%"> <p align="right"><img border="0" src="../stills/gettingschooled-poster.jpg" width="200" height="278"></td> </tr> </table> <p>Your typical 1980s high school: Jock Mike (Jake Byrd), prom queen Hillary (Morgan Tyler), nerd Shelly (Susan Ly), juvenile delinquent Rusty (Roland Ruiz) and outcast Julie (Mayra Leal) are all condemned to spend their Saturday morning in detention, to be overlooked by new teacher Mr Roker (Tom Long), a wheelchair-bound Vietnam veteran. Rather by accident then, Mr Roker is knocked out, and when he shows violent tentencies upon coming to, the kids just lock him away to calm down - really the most sensible idea under the circumstances, but when they want to let him out again, he seems to have found his own escape ... which is bad, since the incident seems to have triggered a psychosis Mr Roker has brought home from Vietnam, and now he thinks the kids are the enemy and he has to take them down. And out heroes only comprehend in what kind of a fit they are when they hear the school's principal (Nick W. Nicholson) being tortured to death. They take all kinds of precautions, arm themselves (with what kinds of arms you can find in a high school of course), set traps and everything ... but Mr Roper, despite wheelchair-bound, is full of tricks since he was with the black ops, the meanest and most ruthlessly violent of the army squads - and he's out for blood ...<p>Ron Jeremy plays the school janitor, Paula Marcenaro Solinger a dancing librarian who ends up being the very first kill.<p> <p>If you've loved 1980s cinema, you'll like this ... and if you loathed it, chances are you will as well, as <b>Getting Schooled</b> is a loving yet tongue-in-cheek hommage to films from that period, and by no means just slasher flicks. Actually, the premise of the movie is almost a carbon copy of <b>The Breakfast Club</b>, and fans will no doubt spot allusions to many other John Hughes movies in this one, and also Vietnam and army movies of the era get their fair nod. And it's all made possible by the right eye for yesteryear's style and (bad synthie pop) music, and also a reliance on yesterday's morals, mirrored in some intentionally stilted mono- and dialogues. But that said, the movie still creates enough tension and suspense to keep one on one's edge of one's seat anyways, and has its fair share of gruesomeness to keep the gorehounds entertained. So whichever way you want to put it, it's good fun.<p>  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="2"></td> <td width="100" rowspan="2" background="../stylepix/squareright.gif" valign="top">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top">  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> currentyear = "2017"; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="../scripts/endcredits.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> dosworsdonn(); </SCRIPT> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>