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Plot Summary
Schools out, and Ocean Front High gym teacher Freddy Shoop (Mark Harmon) has big plans: summer in Hawaii. But the schools vice-principal has plans for Freddy, too: teaching remedial English. Aloha paradise - hello, Summer School. Director Carl Reiner (All Of Me, The Jerk) delighted fans and critics alike with this warm, perceptive comedy about a laid-back teacher (Harmon) relegated to teaching a class of likeable misfits, including a slasher-flick addict (Dean Cameron), his wacky sidekick (Gary Riley), and a sexy female surfer (Courtney Thorne-Smith) of TVs Ally McBeal and Melrose Place). Kirstie Alley (TVs Cheers and Veronicas Closet) is the no-nonsense history professor down the hall whos keeping an eye on all the shenanigans - and on the handsome, irresistible Freddy. The road to academic success has never been bumpier, but to earn straight As in laughtertake Summer School.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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61%- Reviews Counted: 28
- Fresh: 17
- Rotten: 11
- Average Rating: 5.5/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Rotten: Mr. Harmon has an easygoing attractiveness, but neither he nor anyone else seems comfortable with the film's antic pace. And for all its busyness, this comedy has no real focus, ricocheting from character to character with wearying abandon.
Fresh: The moral is a sweet one: If you try, you never fail. The world is graded on a curve.
Fresh: A bit bland compared to Reiner's Steve Martin comedies, but engagingly played.
Customer Reviews
The song "Mind Over Matter"
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Sit back and laugh
This is one of those movies that you can watch every year and still kick back and enjoy. Silly fun and lots of laughs. Mark Harmon is great. I love the lines "But I'm not a real teacher. That's okay, they aren't real students." And if you don't agree with my review, that's okay, I'm not a real film critic.
Two thumbs up!
Great movie!!!!
I love this movie :) I watch this movie every summer time and I never get tired of it....It is funny every time I watch it.I am going to buy it. I am going on a road trip to Florida this Summer so this will be the perfect movie to watch on the road.
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- $14.99
- Genre: Comedy
- Released: 2004
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