Back to School

Name: Back to School
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1986-06-13
Duration: 1 h 36 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Rodney Dangerfield, Sally Kellerman, Burt Young, Keith Gordon, Robert Downey Jr.

He enrolled in college for the pursuit of finer things...like co-eds, shapely professors, fun and rock and roll.

Back to School (1986)

Timing: 1:36 (96 min)

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Video for the film Back to School — Official Trailer

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Release date

1986-06-13

Country

United States

Production

Orion Pictures, Paper Clip Productions

Genre

Comedy

Budget

$11 000 000

Box office

$91 258 000

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Director

Alan Metter

Actors

Rodney Dangerfield, Sally Kellerman, Burt Young, Keith Gordon, Robert Downey Jr., William Zabka, Paxton Whitehead, Adrienne Barbeau, M. Emmet Walsh, Terry Farrell
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Scenario

Producer

Chuck Russell, Harold Ramis, Michael Endler, Estelle Endler

Camera operator

Thomas E. Ackerman

Composer

Danny Elfman

Artist

David L. Snyder, Margie Stone McShirley

Audition

Caro Jones, Melissa Skoff

Editing

David Rawlins
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Short description

Self-made millionaire Thornton Melon decides to get a better education and enrolls at his son Jason's college. While Jason tries to fit in with his fellow students, Thornton struggles to gain his son's respect, giving way to hilarious antics.

What's left behind the scenes

Kurt Vonnegut appears as himself in one of the film's episodes. The main character hires him to write a paper on the writer's work. Later, the teacher rejects the paper, claiming the author doesn't understand Kurt Vonnegut’s writing.