Three O'Clock High
Director: Phil Joanou
Genre: Comedy, Teen, Farce
Year: 1987
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language
Starring: Casey Siemaszko, Richard Tyson, John P. Ryan, Yeardley Smith, Mitch Pileggi, Jeffrey Tambor, Philip Baker Hall, Stacey Glick, Liza Morrow, Jonathan Wise
Three O'Clock High is a 1987 high-school comedy film, directed by Phil Joanou, written by Richard Christian Matheson and Thomas Szollosi, and produced by Aaron Spelling. The plot concerns a student (Casey Siemaszko) who accidentally offends a bully (Richard Tyson) and who devotes most of his school day to avoiding a fistfight with the bully at 3:00 p.m. Unusual photography, camera angles, zooms and closeups characterize the film, along with slow motion sequences.
The movie was filmed at Ogden High School in Ogden, Utah, but was based, in part, on Joanou's own experiences at La Canada High School in California. Critical reception was mixed and the film did not do well at the box office; but on home video it has become something of a minor cult classic.
Meek high school student Jerry Mitchell (Casey Siemaszko) and his kid sister Brei (Stacey Glick) have the house to themselves as their parents are on vacation. Jerry's day begins badly when he wakes late, and gets worse when he nearly wrecks his car while driving his sister and his girlfriend Franny (Anne Ryan) to school. When they arrive, the students are preoccupied with talk about new student Buddy Revell (Richard Tyson), a violent
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