Class of 1984 (1982)
"We are the future! ...and nothing can stop us."
Director: Mark L. Lester · Writers: Mark L. Lester, Tom Holland, John C.W. Saxton
Andy is a new teacher at an inner city high school that is unlike any he has seen before. There are metal detectors at the front door and the place is basically run by a tough kid named Peter Stegman. Soon, Andy and Stegman become enemies and Stegman will stop at nothing to protect his turf and drug dealing business.
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Trailer
Director
Mark L. Lester
Cast
Perry King
Andrew Norris 
Tim Van Patten
Peter Stegman 
Roddy McDowall
Terry Corrigan 
Michael J. Fox
Arthur 
Merrie Lynn Ross
Diane Norris 
Stefan Arngrim
Drugstore 
Keith Knight
Barnyard 
Lisa Langlois
Patsy 
Neil Clifford
Fallon 
Al Waxman
Detective Stewiski 
Erin Noble
Deneen
David Gardner
Principal Morganthau User Reviews (2)
I am the future! Class of 1984 is directed by Mark Lester and Lester co-writes the screenplay with Tom Holland and John Saxton. It stars Perry King, Roddy McDowall, Merrie Lynn Ross, Timothy Van Patten, Stefan Arngrim, Michael Fox, Roddy McDowall and Lisa Langlois. Music is by Lalo Schifrin and Alice Cooper and Cinematography by Albert J. Dunk. New music teacher Andrew Norris (King) is shocked to find the pupils of Lincoln High rule the roost. Refusing to kowtow to Peter Stegman's (Patten) gang of thugs, he decides to fight back... It's always tricky revisiting later in life films that have cemented themselves as cult favourites. Class of 1984 is one such cult favourite of many who eagerly digested it back in the early half of the 1980s, a time when censorship was rife and banning orders the order of the day. The word of mouth back then was that Lester's film pushed boundaries, …
It's 2020 and, frankly, I miss movies like this. Hollywood has tanked, they really aren't putting out anything worth watching any longer... and it's debatable if Class of 1984 is really worth watching. I guess it depends on your mood. But we need that padding back. We need a whole bunch of ridiculous, low budget exploitation films to pad and help finance the bigger ones. That might actually stop Hollywood from actively attacking the people that didn't go see the trash movies they spent millions on and still tanked. Because, honestly, I'm not going to spend $25 a ticket to go see a gender and race swapped remake of a beloved childhood lecture with a heavy handed one sided political message and no real story or plot. But I will spend a few bucks to stream a trash exploitation movie, with no real message, no real budget, and a plot that was made to just be fun and entertaining. …
