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Dangerously Close (1986)

R 05/09/1986 (US) Action, Crime, Thriller 1h 35m

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Rebel without a cause or a clue at an elite but uptight college discovers some of his classmates have formed an even more elite clique more or less hell-bent on ridding the school, and quite possibly American society, of what they deem to be its undesirables because of ethnicity, politics, etc. Our hero recruits a teacher and some other "less desirable" classmates to undermine the elitists, and, naturally, things get quite violent.

Marty Ross

Screenplay, Story
Albert Pyun

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John Stockwell

Screenplay
Scott Fields

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John Edward Peck

Donny Lennox
John Stockwell

Randy McDevitt
Carey Lowell

Julie
Bradford Bancroft

Krooger Raines
Don Michael Paul

Ripper
Thom Mathews

Brian Rigletti
Gerard Christopher

Lang Bridges
Madison Mason

Corrigan
Anthony De Longis

Smith Raddock
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A review by Wuchak

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Written by Wuchak on September 14, 2023

A (superior) Massacre at Central High

An underprivileged teen (J. Eddie Peck) attends an upper-class school near the coast in SoCal where a group of students, organized by a teacher who’s a Vietnam vet, guard the school from thuggish behavior. The leader of the Sentinels (John Stockwell) tries to woo him into his increasingly arrogant group.

“Dangerously Close” (1986) had the same producer as "Massacre at Central High" from ten years prior. I point this out because the plots & settings are similar, albeit this one doesn’t have the awkward twist of the second half of “Massacre” and... read the rest.

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