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Summer School

Directed by Carl Reiner

PG-13

1987 1h 37mComedy, Romance

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Freddy the gym teacher has to teach remedial English in summer (high) school, if he wants tenure. As he can only teach gym and his students want fun, emphasis is on "field trips" - until he's fired unless all his students pass the test.

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Cast of Summer School

Mark HarmonMr. Freddy Shoop
Kirstie AlleyMs. Robin Elizabeth Bishop
Courtney Thorne-SmithPam House
Dean CameronFrancis 'Chainsaw' Gremp
Gary RileyDave Frazier
Shawnee SmithRhonda Altobello
Fabiana UdenioAnna-Maria Mazarelli
Ken OlandtLarry Kazamias
Robin ThomasVice Principal Phil Gills
Kelly Jo MinterDenise Green
Richard Steven HorvitzAlan Eakian
Carl ReinerMr. Dearadorian / Director
DeeDee RescherWoman at Strip Joint
Andrea HowardWoman at Strip Joint
Beau StarrMr. Gremp
Prince HughesScary Inmate
Amy StochKim
Patrick LabyorteauxKevin Winchester
Duane DavisJerome Watkins (Bathroom Guy)
Tom TroupeJudge Stuart R. Dryer
Francis X. McCarthyPrincipal Kelban
Lucy Lee FlippinSubstitute Teacher - Ms. Cura
Laura WaterburyMrs. Gremp
Darwyn SwalveScary Inmate
Robin KaufmanChainsaw's Sister
Dottie ArchibaldMrs. Frazier
Patricia ConklinMrs. Kazimias
Vivian BonnellMrs. Green
Judy HeinzMrs. Altobello
Michael MacRaeMr. Winchester
Lillian AdamsGrandma Eakian
David WakefieldScuzzy Kid
Conroy GedeonMr. Winnick
Bill CapizziSecurity Guard
Christopher KriesaBeach Cop
Carlos LacámaraBeach Cop
Jeff SilvermanExaminer
Thomas RyanExaminer
Judy NagyNurse
Courtney GebhartSurfer Girl
Terry LoganCop At Police Station
Nels Van PattenTommy
Leigh FrenchStudent
Jack BlessingStudent
Gigi VorganStudent
Lynne Marie StewartStudent
John StarkStudent
Susan ElliottStudent
Lora StaleyStudent
Laurie FasoStudent
Brian StevensStudent
Gary ImhoffStudent
Bill BakerHigh School Student
Lorenzo GasparHigh School Student
Sara-Beth LimaStudent
Danny NeroRoller Coaster Rider
Reynaldo SilvaStudent
Jeff FranklinWriter / Producer
Stuart BirnbaumWriter
David DashevWriter
Howard WestProducer
George ShapiroProducer

Summer School Ratings & Reviews

Jacob O’NealJuly 18, 2025
From the director of The Jerk, the stars of NCIS, Saw, Ski School, Cheers, Heathers, Melrose Place, Austin Powers and the creator of Full House comes Summer School. Carl Reiner directed this delightfully fun movie I’ve watched every summer since I was a child in the 80’s. The movie is about Mr. Shoop, a gym teacher forced to teach remedial English in summer school. A teacher who doesn’t know how to teach and students who don’t want to be there is the basic premise. Like any good 80’s film, it gets weird with underage male strippers, classroom screenings of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, a field trip to the beach so the boys could see the foreign exchange student in a bikini and the goriest scene you’ll ever see in a PG-13 movie. Everyone remembers Dave & Chainsaw in the movie, but there’s film was stacked with soon to be famous people, like Courtney Thorne Smith, Shawnee Smith, Mark Harmon (rising before and after this film) Patrick Layborteau of Heathers fame, Fabiana Udino (Alotta Fagina) and many others. It also boasted a music score from a young Danny Elfman with only a couple movies under his belt. The soundtrack featured Elizabeth Daily (Dottie from Pee-Wes’s Big Adventure) the movie was written by Jeff Franklin who was just about to launch Full House, his biggest success. The movie was great in how it showed someone who actually grew to care about his students learn how to teach each and every one of them in a way that they understood. It also played with the ideas of being outcasts, having inappropriate crushes on your teachers, teenage pregnancy and underage drinking in a way that never felt preachy or like it judged the students. It straddled the line of being a grounded comedy and an absurd goofy comedy in ways only Carl Reiner could. The man was a genius and will forever be missed. If you haven’t seen this film and you’re a fan of Harmon, Reiner or Franklin then you may find something to enjoy in this film.

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