Summer School
Summer School is a 1987 American comedy film directed by Carl Reiner and starring Mark Harmon as a high school gym teacher who is forced to teach a remedial English class during the summer. The film co-stars Kirstie Alley and Courtney Thorne-Smith. It was distributed by Paramount Pictures and produced by George Shapiro and Howard West. The original music score was composed by Danny Elfman.
Plot
At a Los Angeles area beach city high school, on the last day of school before summer vacation, physical education teacher Freddy Shoop is preparing for a vacation to Hawaii with his girlfriend, Kim. Vice principal Phil Gills hands out paper slips informing several underachievers that they must attend summer school for remedial English. Among the students are easily distracted Pam House; "nocturnal" Larry Kazamias, a male stripper; football jock Kevin Winchester; pregnant Rhonda Altobello; geeky Alan Eakian; dyslexic Denise Green; intimidating Jerome Watkins; and two horror film-obsessed underachievers, Dave Frazier and Francis Gremp, a.k.a. "Chainsaw".
More details
| author | Jeff Franklin |
|---|---|
| director | Carl Reiner |
| editor | Bud Molin |
| genre | comedy |
| keywords | american football american history arrest chain saw chalkboard date dinner date driving lesson eat end football going into labor hawaii horror film how to ice cream kiss lamaze last day learn los angeles male stripper on the beach pass summer school summer vacation teach tenure the texas chain saw massacre theme park transfer student vice principal |
| musicBy | Danny Elfman |
| producer | George Shapiro Howard West |
| productionCompany | AFI Catalog of Feature Films Paramount Pictures |
| publisher | Paramount Pictures |
| theme | high school |