Blackie Dammett, Fred McCarren, Gerrit Graham

Lizzie Borden High's class of '72 are going through the motions at their tenth-year reunion, until deranged alum Walter Baylor, driven insane by a sadistic senior-year prank, escapes from the mental i...( read more  read more... )nstitution and crashes the party. When guests start getting bumped off, the other alumni, including snooty yacht salesman Bob Spinnaker, class tease Bunny Packard, and class zero Gary Nash, spring into action to uncover the culprit. Chuck Berry makes an onstage appearance.

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R, 84 min.

Directed by: Michael Miller

Release Date: October 29, 1982

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DVD Release Date: February 8, 2000

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  • August 8, 2009
    Personal taste rules when it comes to talking about movies such as this treasured little gem. Way back in the eighties, the early eighties, i discovered this movie, like so many released at the time, "Night Patrol" "Bad Manners" or even "King Frat" the artwork and blurbs on the b...( read more)ack of the covers tempted and teased you.

    Of course being of an age, movies like that i have already mentioned as well as stuff like "Screwballs" and the many others, captured the imagination, and thankfully many years later i still remember some with fondness and some with disdain the many movies that help maintain my love of such genre as parodies or pastiches.

    Made many years after the huge success of "Animal House" and having seen how it had fared down through the years, I now know that there would be no way this movie would ever eclipse the box office bucks obtain aforementioned nor would it linger in the memory, much like that of National Lampoon's Vacation.

    To be honest, not everything that has carried the National Lampoon Logo has been a wild success, however to me Class Reunion remains one of my all time favourite movies, with instantly recognisable characters, such as the aloof Bob Spinnaker played to perfection by Gerrit Graham, so good in Charles Band's "Terrorvision" still lingering in the past glories of his youth. Or how about Stephen Furst's brash and ballsy turn as the high school lazy drunken sex crazed bum Hubert Downs.

    Sweet as. Which makes me ponder. As i already said, personal taste not withstanding. People can be so cruel, so it will never win any awards or be compared to the like of its's peers within the comedy world. It does have some merit. Being one of the earlier scripts penned by John Hughes, who would later go on to do one of my own favourites of his work "Weird Science" as well as having a wonderful theme title sung by the great Gary U.S Bonds.

    What more can i say, it's a movie just waiting to be rediscovered, time and time again.
  • February 2, 2008
    Dumb high school slasher movie spoof.
  • February 27, 2007
    National Lampoon's Class Reunion doesn't quite work but it has its moments. The problem comes from the earliest conception stage of the filmmaking process, I think. The film is a parody and a really, really obvious one, too. The reason that Animal House works is because it's n...( read more)ot really a parody of anything: it is what it is. You end up caring about the characters despite yourself. Here, working in the Airplane-mode, the National Lampoon team don't seem quite so confident. Still, there are a few really funny moments scattered throughout this, usually between lame "goofy" scenes. You'll probably enjoy it more if you're a slasher movie fan (as I am.)
  • November 20, 2008
    Garbage....a waste of a pretty good cast...
  • February 18, 2008
    very stupid and a waste of time. So, basically, it is exactly the same as a real high school reunion!
  • November 10, 2007
    One was ok two is one two many, three is a disaster, and I haven't got a clue as of how many there is by now - 28? :6
  • September 13, 2007
    same cast from the National Lampoon, lots of sexual innuendos.
  • March 22, 2007
    this movieis just genious, pure genious, if you can get holdof a copy, do, it will have you curled p in a bal, screamng 'no more this has to stop'
  • March 16, 2007
    Class Reunion is not too bad of a film, but could have been better. The movie has some great moments in it. A good cast like Gerrit Graham, Stephen Furst, Jackie Zeman, Anne Ramsey, and Michael Lerner.

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