Class of 1984 is a 1982 film about a new music teacher at a troubled inner city school, where students have to pass through a metal detector due to problems with gangs, drugs, and violence. It was directed by Mark L. Lester and starred Perry King as teacher Andrew Norris, Merrie Lynn Ross (who also co-executive produced) as his wife Diane Norris, Roddy McDowall as Terry Corrigan and Timothy Van Patten as Peter Stegman, the leader of the gang of t...
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Class of 1984 is a 1982 film about a new music teacher at a troubled inner city school, where students have to pass through a metal detector due to problems with gangs, drugs, and violence. It was directed by Mark L. Lester and starred Perry King as teacher Andrew Norris, Merrie Lynn Ross (who also co-executive produced) as his wife Diane Norris, Roddy McDowall as Terry Corrigan and Timothy Van Patten as Peter Stegman, the leader of the gang of thugs who terrorize the school. It was one of Michael J. Fox's early roles, before he was a well-established actor.
The movie utilized the punk look and image that was becoming part of popular culture in the early 1980s. The movie's theme song, "I Am The Future", was performed by Alice Cooper. The film also features a performance by Canadian punk band Teenage Head.
The movie has often been described, by some critics, as an unofficial remake of Blackboard Jungle (1955), in which King has the Glenn Ford role, Van Patten has Vic Morrow's, and Fox...
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