Crappy film

Brilliant and touching

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Hooking up with a much older woman has unforeseen consequences for a shy prep school student in this comedy featuring Jacqueline Bisset as the older woman in question. The film is well known nowadays for a twist regarding Bisset's identity, but curiously enough, this twist does not come about until nearly an hour into the movie. The film actually works better before the twist is revealed with the focus instead on the very real bond that develops between roommates Andrew McCarthy and Rob Lowe who connect over a mutual love for practical gags and dislike of authority figures. Their first two pranks are in fact arguably the film's biggest highlights (a meeting gone awry at a sister school aside). Getting back to the twist, the key disappointment is that it is not milked for very many laughs, an awkward dinner table conversation aside. The tone of the film in fact shifts in a jolting manner from comedy to drama. Also, Bisset's motives and in particular, her persistence to carry on with McCarthy, do not quite ring true. That said, it is otherwise a solid late career performance for the Golden Globe winning actress. McCarthy and especially a charismatic and charming young Lowe steal the show though, and even with the plot twist, the overall film is about them coming to accept their faults and differences on the pathway to getting an education in life, and while abrupt, the ending perfectly captures just how genuine their friendship is. It is also interesting to see John Cusack and Alan Ruck younger than ever before and Cliff Robertson is always good to have on hand.

A romantic teen comedy dealing with love and sexual experiences. Andrew Mcarthy plays Johnathan a shy introverted high school student who attends a posh all boys private school, his roommate Skip Played very well by Rob love is the sexually charged playboy who gets the both of them into a lot of trouble. When one night Johnathan is pressured By Skip and fellow peers to go out on the town and have a sexual encounter. After making a fool of himself at seedy bar Johnathan meets an older, vivacious woman by the name of Ellen and the two embark on a passionate night of lovemaking.This film was, in many ways, one of the brat pack films, and starred many actors from that era who were just getting started in the industry. Not only are the... love scenes between Andrew and Jacqueline convincing, they are beautiful and moving. The rest of the film is also enjoyable to watch. If you enjoyed the era of the 1980's and older, beautiful, and sophisticated women characters, then you'll enjoy this hilarious, if not moving film.Overall rating: 7 out of 10.

I don't know who's calling this film uneven; it's effing brilliant black comedy.jonathan (mccarthy) is a seemingly shy, sensitive, but quite bright young man with a hidden impish side who thru the most cinematic of all contrivances finds himself porking his room mate (lowe) & best friend's mom (bisset). i'm like sitting here watching them all have dinner together in lowe's house over Christmas break and laughing my head off; this tops "better off dead" for epic, teen film weirdness; were it not for the many, and very hot young men i might have imagined that I was in a seinfeld episode.the director must have been a great admirer of sam Peckinpah because, although "class" is devoid of his signature shootouts, it has all the misogyny and misanthropy of a "straw dogs". i found it a bit depressing that he's decided the rather cruel schoolyard bullying and backroom machinations are matter of course in this world where apparently people are essentially selfish and the experienced & devious get their way; i thought the prep school kids i knew were bloody horrible but it seems we generally have a better and kinder world now; the prep school girls whom he so callously demeans have had their way? I haven't quite finished yet but have to disagree with the other reviewers that the film lacked for inability to choose its genre; there's a definite thematic cohesion throughout.also the sex scenes are incredibly hot, and, rumor is, even real? say what you will about his acting ability, but mccarthy was clearly a Really Good Lay. why oh why didn't **he** leak a sex tape?

I give this movie two ratings: The serious sex scenes between the mother and Jonathon, a 2 The hilarious school scenes with Jonathon and Skip, a 10I love all the school scenes: When Jon comites "suicide", when Skip tells the story of how he killed a person, the first scene when Jonothan wears a bikini and the scene when the kids are trying to shove pot down the sink and toilet(one guy actually tries to put a pot plant down the sink) All the sex scenes are retarded. REALLY boring. I literally fast forwarded those partsI really love this movie even though some of it is real stupid, plus Rob Lowe is beautiful, so it makes it worth while