IMDb plot summary: It's been 10 years since Lizzie Borden High School's class of '72 graduated, and the preppies, the hippies and the in-crowd have returned to reminisce over good times past.
Directed by Michael Miller. Starring Gerrit Graham, Michael Lerner, and Fred McCarren.
Class Reunion is a broad 80s comedy set at a ten-year high school reunion where one of the returning graduates has plans for murder. All the characters we meet are based on high school stereotypes. To be honest, very few of the jokes land at all. This is a very early John Hughes script, and he had neither grasped the humor nor the heart that his later films would deliver. There's nothing wrong with broad comedy, but very little of this works. There is one truly hilarious running gag that suddenly brings the fantastical into a world that is otherwise portrayed as an over-the-top but real-world scenario, but that's really the only one. This also feels like the kind of movie that's begging to be a big name ensemble, and maybe I'm just out of the loop of 1980s actors, but I didn't know any of these people, and this is absolutely the kind of thing that would work beter seeing established actors in these simple character tropes that we can enjoy. A messy unclear movie that never finds its footing.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Class Reunion < Bad Education
Class Reunion < Pepito and the Magic Lamp
Class Reunion > Epic
Class Reunion < Send Me No Flowers
Class Reunion < Uncut Gems
Class Reunion < Stage Door Canteen
Class Reunion < Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
Class Reunion > The Mirror
Class Reunion < Julia
Class Reunion < Meet Me in St. Louis
Class Reunion < Psych-Out
Class Reunion > Out of the Past
Final spot: #3297 out of 3786, or 13%.
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