Making the Grade [Blu-ray]

Director: Dorian Walker, Chuck Vincent Dorian Walker

Overview

The time-worn clash between the rich and poor, brought out by switched identities, is the ploy used here to put a streetwise kid into an upper-crust prep school. Palmer (Dana Olsen) does not want to stay at school for his final year, but he needs to graduate in order to receive his mega-buck trust fund. Eddie (Judd Nelson) is a New Jersey native, used to the streets and handling trouble when it comes -- except Eddie's bookie is after him for a bad debt, and when Eddie jumps the prep school's fence to escape his creditor, he almost knocks down Palmer. From that serendipitous meeting, the two decide to swap identities -- or partly so. Eddie will become Palmer and get good grades in the last year of school, for the sum of $10,000 at graduation. And Palmer will go off on his own planned vacation. Eddie soon learns the ways of the rich and famous, but he is quickly back to crap games and porno movies, this time initiating his new schoolmates into that lifestyle and gaining popularity along the way. What follows is a series of misadventures as the bookie shows up at the school to demand his due from Eddie, Eddie falls in love with the daughter of the school's patron, and Palmer comes back.

Product Details

Release Date:	03/22/2016
UPC:	0887090118200
Original Release:	1984
Rating:	R
Source:	Olive
Region Code:	A
Language:	English
Time:	1:44:00
Sales rank:	19,831

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Dana Olsen	Palmer Woodrow
Judd Nelson	Eddie Keaton
Jonna Lee	Tracey Hoover
Gordon Jump	Mr. Harriman
Walter Olkewicz	Coach Wordman
Ronald Lacey	Nicky
Carey Scott	Rand
Scott McGinnis	Bif
Andrew Dice Clay	Dice
John Dye	Skip
Daniel Schneider	Blimp,Blimp
John Stevens	Mr. Hoover
Lucille Ewing	Mrs. Hoover
Patrice Watson	Muffy
Moses Peace	Regis
Robert Meltzer	Mr. Townsend
Ray Hill	Dr. Mueller
Mattie Grayson	Maid
Tim Fall	Caddy
Jeri Boyle	Elder
Waldo Zimmerman	Elder
Christopher Thomas	Thomas
Jack Ray	Chauffeur
Marc G. Wilson	Scared Freshman
Steve Wilkerson	Passing Senior
Edgar Orman	Old Chauffeur
Treat McDonald	Reggie
Pam Shirley	Dicette
Gail Stone-Stanton	Dicette
Teresa Nix	Dicette
Mike Crews	Band leader, Mike Crews (and the Revolving Band)
Chris Williams	Thomas
Emilio Estevez	Mike
Basil Poledouris	Composer

Technical Credits

Gene Quintano

Yoram Globus	Executive Producer,Producer
Menahem Golan	Executive Producer,Producer
Gene Quintano	Producer,Screenwriter
Dorian Walker	Director
Chuck Vincent	Director