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Rock 'N' Roll High School

starring: P.J. Soles, Vincent Van Patten, Clint Howard, Dey Young, Mary Woronov
directed by: Jerry Zucker, Allan Arkush, Joe Dante

: Rock 'N' Roll High School
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0736991219496
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: New Concorde
Manufacturer: New Concorde
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Concorde
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 28, 2001
Running Time: 84 minutes
Sales Rank: 15704
Studio: New Concorde
Theatrical Release Date: August 24, 1979



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'Do your parents know you're Ramones?' With those withering words, Miss Togar (Mary Woronov), the uptight neofascist principal of Vince Lombardi High School, addresses the four mop-haired, leather-jacketed members of America's first and most famous punk band. And you know it won't be long before the Ramones's jackhammer riffs are blaring through the public address system at maximum volume, the kids are running--not walking--wild in the hallways (without passes!), and Miss Togar's gulag is re-christened 'Rock 'n' Roll High School.' Then, in keeping with the outrageously nihilistic animus of punk, the high school students and the Ramones just blow the place to smithereens. It's a crowd- pleasing, fantasy-fulfillment climax that combines the apocalyptic finale of Michelangelo Antonioni's Zabriskie Point with the explosive conclusion of Alice Cooper's 'School's Out.' Rock 'n' Roll High School is a blast, a goofy and liberating salute to the rebel spirit behind the teen rock & roll movies of the 1950s, which always pitted the kids' insatiable appetite for fun against the adults' fear-based authoritarianism. The film is emblematic of the disarmingly silly, tongue-in-cheek humor of the youth-oriented B-pictures cranked out in the '50s and '60s by renowned low-budget exploitation mogul Roger Corman (who gave many a hungry young filmmaker, including the creators of this film, their start in the biz), and of the noisy, anarchic energy of '70s punk rock, as personified by the inimitable Ramones. In the words of the maestros' beach-blanket-buzz-saw title anthem, this movie is 'Fun, fun, oh baby, fun, fun...' --Jim Emerson



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Not the classic I was expecting
The Ramones are one of my favorite bands, and I'm a big fan of B Movies, but man, did I dislike this ... Read More


Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - A real stinker.
Not the best movie I've ever seen. Too much violence for a movie that is suppose to be fun and about ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Those Ramones are peculiar. They are ugly. Ugly, ugly, people.
With exploding mice, body searching hall monitors, ear mail receiving music teachers seeking glue to sniff, ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Will Your School Be Next?
Take the serious cinema from the 1950s, which focused on teenage angst, merge it with punk rock and bring The ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - MEMORIES
Totally as I remember it. Brought back so many memories. LOVED IT. GABBA GABBA HEY!!!!! ... Read More

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