Student Confidential

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Student Confidential

With better actors , and the funding of an `A` film the producer could have made us forgotten forever The Breakfast Club ! He probably had in his hands the best scenario about the passage of individuals to the world of adults .This film is really showing us at what point we could be confused at the end of our teen years . All the roles in some way seems to be stereotypical ...But none of their emotional responses ..It's like real life is . For instance when the school adviser came up early from work he surprises his wife with another man in bed .he is not angry ! he shows extreme sadness and pain .He sees his life crumbling down and instead taking his gun he takes his camera and before entering into the room he is making one or two shots ...but the camera is pointing down at his feet ...it's like he refuses to see how his own life is turning ...nobody in this flick is an hero everyone in this plot has something to learn . It's the only American film who sees life from that point.

This film is so phenomenally awful that you will wonder throughout whether it's intentionally campy and satirical. It isn't. That's the beauty of Student Confidential, a testament to the best and worst of the '80s. You will never see acting, directing, plot or cinematography this bad in a movie that was honestly trying to be good. So watch it if you can and prepare to laugh until it hurts. Just try to keep in mind that this is supposed to be a serious commentary on wayward youth, the power of money, and well, who cares anyway? The film doesn't want to be a forgotten B-movie -- this is Richard Horian's desperate attempt to become the next John Hughes, not the next Ed Wood. It's a glorious accomplishment.

Michael Drake (Richard Horian who also wrote & directed this film), a self-made millionaire with a frigid cheating bitch for a wife takes a job as a high school guidance counselor taking it upon himself to help four wayward students. Wow now this was a mess of a movie. The 'plot' is all kinds of disjointed and the ending is rather confusing. The acting's abysmal and quite frankly I can't think of any saving grace that the movie has whatsoever. Atrocious even by Troma's lax standards. I feel dumber just having watched this. Eye Candy: Susie Scott and Paula Sorenson both show * & bush; Elizabeth Singer just shows her * My Grade: F