Up the Academy (1980)
The education they got wasn't in books.
Four boys are sent, for different reasons, to a Military Academy. The life of discipline asks a lot of the four geeks. Of course these boys know how to make a party out of the hard times. Will they be "real men" after one year.
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Ralph MacchioChooch BombalazziWendell BrownEisenhower "Ike" MacArthurTommy CiteraHash
Hutch ParkerOliver Holt (as J. Hutchison)Harry TeinowitzRodney Ververgaert
Tom PostonSgt. Skip Sisson
Antonio FargasCoach
Stacey NelkinCandy
Barbara BachBliss
Robert Downey Jr.Boy on Soccer Team (uncredited)
Ron LeibmanMajor Vaughn Liceman (uncredited)
Ian WolfeCommandant CausewayKeywords
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Genre affinityComedyTheme affinityMilitary AcademyDialogue densityComedyPacingShortDirector preference175796Actor preference4109 · 327478 · 168241
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Four boys are sent, for different reasons, to a Military Academy. The life of discipline asks a lot of the four geeks. Of course these boys know how to make a party out of the hard times. Will they be "real men" after one year.
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Up the Academy has a runtime of 87 minutes.
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