Rock 'n' Roll High School

1979

Action / Comedy / Music

16
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 75% · 28 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 75% · 10K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 12083 12.1K

rebellion rock 'n' roll musical punk rock bong camp

Plot summary

A group of rock-music-loving students, with the help of the Ramones, take over their school to combat its newly installed oppressive administration.

Director

Joe Dante Photo
Joe Dante

Top cast

Debbie Evans Photo
Debbie Evans as Student
Don Steele Photo
Don Steele as Screamin' Steve Stevens
Jack Gill Photo
Jack Gill as Student
Alix Elias Photo
Alix Elias as Coach Steroid
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773.65 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 33 min
Seeds 1
1.47 GB
1920*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 33 min
Seeds 19

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Mark_McD 8 / 10

A great tribute to rock'n'roll movies

And this is a great rock'n'roll movie in itself. No matter how it evolved (at point being a movie about disco), it ended up as one of the ultimate movies in which kids want to rock out, but the principal stands in their way. Think back to those rock'n'roll movies of the 50's in which the day is saved when Alan Freed comes to town with Chuck Berry to prove that Rock & Roll Music is really cool and safe for the kids, and Tuesday Weld gets a new sweater for the dance. Forward to the 1979, repeat the same plot, but throw in DA RAMONES, whom no one then realized would become one of the most influential bands of the next quarter century (and then for the obligatory DJ guest shot, "The Real" Don Steele). Throw in, too, all the elements of a Roger Corman-produced comedy-exploitation film, except for the two-day shooting schedule, some of the familiar Corman repertory players like Clint Howard, Mary Wournow and Dick Miller (there since "Bucket of Blood"), and you've got one of the great stoopid movies of the day. One of the few films that uses deliberate cheesiness and gets away with it. I showed the new DVD to a friend who could only remember seeing parts of it through a stoner- induced haze at the drive-in, and he agreed that this is one of the great movies to be watching drunk, not the least for the lovely leading ladies and the great Ramones footage.
Reviewed by patriciogl10 8 / 10

An hour and a half of pure fun.

Surprisingly, this film is a continuous stream of fun from minute one to the last. The credit goes to a simple story, correctly executed, with an interesting main character in Riff Randell (even her name is catchy) a popular high school student who never sticks by the rigid rules of the opressive school system and does whatever she pleases, always inciting other fellow students to revolt alongside her. But when the new principal arrives, Miss Evelyn Togar, whom despises rock 'n' roll music and its alteration on youth mentality, Riff encounters a difficult rival to defeat. Because the film deals with that essentially, the struggle between students and school system. One demanding freedom and no more repression, and the other, installing a heavy disciplinary regime in order to put students in line.The Ramones themselves make a notable appearance, singing the majority of the soundtrack of the movie, being of course their own songs. Riff is their number one fan, and she also happens to write songs, which she intends to show them, one of which it's called Rock 'n' Roll High School. In this student-school system battle, the Ramones join the student side to create an explosive finale.I highly recommend this film, it's so incredibly fun all the way through. It has now become a cult classic, and if you like the Ramones, well it's a no brainer!
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