Movie
Up the Academy
Comedy film with a runtime of 96 minutes, released in 1980. Presented in English.
At a Glance
Year1980
TypeMovie
LanguageEnglish
Genrecomedy
Synopsis
A teen comedy that does not quite rise to the level of that age group, this uninspired story features Ron Liebman as the Major, a sadistic instructor at a military school. Ralph Macchio (before his 1984 hit, Karate Kid) and other teens of every stripe suffer through the indignities heaped on them by the Major and do their best with the sexual, ethnic, and racial stereotypes that the script gives them to handle. Robert Downey directs, Tom Patchett and Jay Tarses wrote the screenplay.
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Cast
- Wendell Brown
- Tom Citera
- J. Hutchinson
- Ralph Macchio
- Ron Leibman
- Harry Teinowitz
- Tom Poston
- Ian Wolfe
- Stacey Nelkin
- Barbara Bach
- Leonard Frey
- Antonio Fargas
- Luke Andreas
- Candy Ann Brown
- King Coleman
- Rosalie Citera
- Yvonne Francis
- James G. Robertson
- Rosemary Eliot
- Louis Zorich
- Robert Lynn Mock
- Tyrees Allen
- Eric Hanson
- Ken White
- Patrick McKenna
- Robert Scopa
- Robert Downey Jr.
- Jay Tarses
- Tom Patchett
- Harry Stradling Jr.
- Peter Wooley
- Bud Molin
- Bernie Brillstein
