CLASS first came to asp attention one late night circa 1998 when it was playing on the uk "paramount comedy channel" at about one in the morning. unbeknownst to fourteen year old me, I had stumbled upon perhaps the quintessential eighties new england boarding school coming of age comedy. the next night, it was taped on vhs. CLASS blends all the classics: animal house, ferris bueller's day off, the graduate, say anything...addressing all the great themes of growing up in any decade. in CLASS though, the trying times of being a teenager are set against the backdrop of the extra rad world that was 1983. not to mention, in addition to rob lowe, andrew mccarthy and jacqueline bisset (as ellen burroughs, the sixteen year precursor to ms. stifler), you've also got memorable turns from john cusack, alan ruck and virgina madsen. somehow the film has failed to garner its due public/critical acclaim and remains elusively outside the canon. fortunately a chosen few have taken it upon themselves to go to commendable lengths to make the film available to a modern, web surfing, audience.
"balderanddash" has posted the entire film on youtube. part one below:
so that's awesome
but it's nothing compared to what this site has compiled: seven hundred and thirty two screen captures. crazy as this sounds, each and every one is an absolute delight. a sample below.
huge shout out to chaunceygardner for sharing this stills, providing overdue inspiration for this post.
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Skip: "these are classy girls we're talking about - I mean I might not even get laid tonight"...(leans back) "although THAT'S highly unlikely"
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