Sunday, October 31, 2004

SCHOOL DAZE: No less an authority on film history than John Farr, a freelancer for the Stamford Advocate, weighs in with a list of the best school movies. Ummm, no Ferris, Breakfast Club, or Sixteen Candles? No Dazed and Confused, Lean on Me, or My Tutor? No With Honors? All right, maybe Joe Pesci as the Harvard Bum doesn't deserve a spot on the list, but there are countless others from the 80s alone that do.

Which of your favorite education films failed to make Farr's grade and what are some of the worst school films ever made. I'll nominate Jim Belushi as The Principal and contemptible Oscar-winner A Beautiful Mind for the worst list off the top of my head. And let's limit this to movies mostly in and about the classroom and leave the playing field out of the discussion, since all school athletics film lists begin and end with Rudy.

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