Three O'Clock High

Name: Three O'Clock High
Released: 1987-10-9
Cast: Casey Siemaszko, Anne Ryan, Richard Tyson, Jonathan Wise, Stacey Glick

Three O'Clock High

PG-13
1h 29m
1987

67%

age 13+

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Jerry Mitchell is having one of those days. He’s late for high school, his car has a flat tire and he’s been sent to the dean’s office. But worst of all, he’s incurred the wrath of the feared new student, Buddy Revell, the biggest, meanest, downright nastiest guy in class who forces him into a fight at 3 p.m. in the school parking lot. Poor Jerry has just seven hours, a good supply of wit, a few friends, a savvy kid sister and the worst luck of any kid alive, to find a way out of his tough problem. As the clock ticks away and the suspense mounts, Jerry realizes there’s no way he can avoid facing the muscle-bound bully in a fight that will probably be his last. It’s brain against brawn in one of today’s best contemporary teenage comedies.

Director:

Phil Joanou

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Writer:

Cast:

Casey Siemaszko, Anne Ryan, Richard Tyson, Jonathan Wise, Stacey Glick, Jeffrey Tambor, Philip Baker Hall, Mitch Pileggi, John P. Ryan, Yeardley Smith

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

67%

Reviews

Under the Radar

Austin Trunick

Three O'Clock High is one of the more fun, semi-forgotten teen films of the 1980s.

Dated '80s teen comedy has bullying, cursing, violence.

Three O'Clock High deserves a slot next to other '80s classics like "Ferris Bueller," "Sixteen Can...

A very unique and entertaining high school comedy with an important message...

June 25, 2017

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Fantastica Daily

Chuck O'Leary

A better than average high-school comedy stylishly directed by a young Phil (State of Grace) Joano...

June 21, 2017

Common Sense Media

age 13+

Common Sense Says

Dated '80s teen comedy has bullying, cursing, violence.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that Three O'Clock High is a 1987 high school satire in which a nerdy teen boy inadvertently arouses the ire of a notorious bully and must fight him after school. The word "f-g" is used as a punchline on two occasions. There's regular profanity, including a use of "f--k." An inappropriate relationship develops between an English teacher and a student, who make out twice in front of other students; the teacher also asks the student to come over to her place. Lead character lights and smokes a cigarette during a book report. Fights culminate in broken fingers and blood; cartoonish authority figures punched and knocked out. The movie shows how attitudes toward bullying have changed; it seems to suggest that the only solution to this issue is to get into a violent physical altercation. It's interesting to speculate how this movie would handle bullying if it were made today.