Class of 1999 From:Lee Arenberg , Linda Burden-Williams , Darren E. Burrows , Barbara Coffin , Brent Fraser , Lions Gate ,
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Lions Gate
EAN: 0012236100287
Format: Closed-captioned
Format: Color
Format: Dolby
Format: DVD-Video
Format: Subtitled
Format: Widescreen
Format: NTSC
Label: Lions Gate
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Number Of Items: 1
Packaged Height: 60 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 750 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 20 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 530 hundredths-inches
Publisher: Lions Gate
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2008-09-16
Running Time: 96 minutes
Studio: Lions Gate
Theatrical Release Date: 1990
Product Description:
The time is the future and youth gang violence is so high that the areas around some schools have become "free fire zones," into which not even the police will venture. When Miles Langford (Malcolm McDowell), the principal of Kennedy High School, decides to take his school back from the gangs, robotics specialist Dr. Robert Forrest (Stacy Keach) provides "tactical education units." These human-like androids have been programmed to teach and are supplied with weapons to discipline problems. These kids will get a lesson...in staying alive!!!
Customer Reviews:
2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
Almost Time For The Ten Year Reunion, 2008-09-27
If you were to take Mad Max, The Terminator, The Warriors and Lean On Me, and mix them in a blender, you'd get Class of 1999. It was directed by Mark Lester who made the excellent Class of 1984. This movie is sometimes considered a sequel to that film, but it isn't. Both movies have high schools and violent gangs, but that's where all comparisons end.
In the near future of 1999, violent street gangs have taken over, so bad that the police don't even bother with certain areas of the city(sounds like Death Wish 3!). The damn kids are still required to go to school though! A mullet and contact lens sporting Stacy Keach has taken military battle androids and given them new programs to act as teachers. Three of these androids are given a test run at the worst school in the city where Malcolm McDowell is principal. Meanwhile, ex-gangbanger, Cody, is released from prison and he's off to school. Renouncing his old gang ways, he quickly becomes the target for former gang members and old gang rivals. His brother, Angel, is now in the fold and snorting drugs(as well as his mother!), much to Cody's disappointment(sounds like American History X). Cody gets his groove on with the principal's daughter and tries to stay out of trouble, but he seems to be the only one noticing something odd about the three new teachers. At first they merely beat the snot out of the misbehaving punks, but soon their old military program starts to take over and then it's full out war on the students. Now Cody has to join his old gang and team up with his rival(who looks like Kevin Dubrow from Quiet Riot) to fight back against the android faculty.
Needless to say, this is a fun movie. Not quite as good as Class Of 1984(that movie kicks some serious butt!), but a good time nonetheless. Sure, the subject matter is obviously kinda silly, but the tone of the movie is rather grim and, serious and violent. It's an interesting turn to see the murderous thugs become the heroes of the film.
Aside from McDowell and Keach, we also have Pam Grier as one of the deadly teachers. Most of the cast is made up of actors straight from the "I've seen that guy in movies before, but I can't remember his name" school. The hero, Cody, is played by Bradley Gregg who you all may remember as "Eyeball" from Stand By Me. Or for the horror fans, the unlucky sleepwalker who gets turned into a living puppet by Freddy Krueger in Nightmare 3. His brother, Angel, is played by Joshua Miller, that annoying kid from the vampire bunch in Near Dark. John P Ryan, the father in Larry Cohen's It's Alive is one of the androids. The third android is stock villain Patrick Kilpatrick, who we all know and love as "The Sandman" from the VanDamme prison extravaganza, Death Warrant.
It all sounds like too much fun to even handle, doesn't it? Well, you can probably handle it, so give it a whirl. Of course if you had HBO years back, you've probably seen this numerous times.
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