Synopsis
In This School The Student Body Is 36-24-36!
The story of a group of people who are making a film about life in high school in the 1950's.
1987 Directed by Chuck Vincent
The story of a group of people who are making a film about life in high school in the 1950's.
Another movie totally misrepresented by the VHS art and tagline. It's actually much more ambitious than your average sex comedy believe it or not.
Here we have another 80s film doing the 50s, but with a fresh twist - a 1987 film crew is making a film (cough...incoherent...cough) about high school life back when when Letterman jackets and sock hops were peachy keen. But at it's heart, this is really a movie about making a movie, where gossip, feuds, and hijinks of the cast and crew naturally infiltrate the shoot.
This is one of Chuck's better pictures. It highlights the neuroticism of actors, personality clashes on set, time constraints, budgets, nosy producers, and a deadline just as you'd hope. It's…
Based on the title and poster you'd be forgiven for assuming that Chuck Vincent's STUDENT AFFAIRS is a late entry 80s PORKY'S-style teen titty comedy, but right from the first frame it becomes immediately evident that Vincent is going someplace completely different.
We begin with a group of young actors who are auditioning for parts in exactly the kind of film the poster is advertising. Among them we have the starstruck daughter of a makeup artist, a busty centerfold who doesn't want to return to her hometown as a 20-something has-been, a large man who resents his inability to be cast as anything other than a dumb bully, an ambitious and egotistical male model, the son of a show business…
This New York lensed R-rated "comedy" from porn/genre filmmaker Chuck Vincent(BAD PENNY,IN LOVE,BEDROOM EYES 2) depicts the activities of a film crew and their college aged cast while they are making a 50s set high school film,for while there is some nudity here the film's performances(by the cast) come off as too frenzied,the storyline is completely dull,and Vincent's helming is pretty mundane as STUDENT AFFAIRS openly displays itself as one of Chuck Vincent's much lesser Straight-To-VHS video/late night cable television celluloid efforts. With Louie Bonanno(AUNTIE LEE'S MEAT PIES,SEX APPEAL,COOL AS ICE),Jim Abele(PLAYING BY HEART,WIMPS),Beth Broderick(THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES,TIMBER FALLS,FOOLS RUSH IN),(grindhouse/drive-in/exploitation filmmaker/producer) David F. Friedman(BIKINI DRIVE-IN,BLONDE HEAT,MATINEE IDOL),(porn filmmaker)Henri Pachard(SEX DRIVE,PUSS N' BOOTS[1982]),and porn stars Tracey Adamas(SCREEN TEST,THE DAVENTURES OF BUTTMAN,THE DEVIL IN MR. HOLMES) and Veronica Hart(BOOGIE NIGHTS,FOXTROT,LATEX).
As much as I enjoy Chuck Vincent's experimental movies, I am not a fan of movies that are about petty people causing drama. I know, everybody else loves that shit, but I've had enough of it in real life, maybe you haven't. It's more of a lightweight drama/comedy in which, I'm pretty sure, Chuck basically uses the film to vent spleen about low-rent prima donnas on low-rent movie sets. The high light is an appearance by David F. Friedman, who pops up out of nowhere to play... a movie producer! Which... err, he doesn't do very convincingly. It was a fun moment anyway.