Principal
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In 1941, in the small town of Peyton Place, Michael Rossi (Lee Phillips) is hired as the new
principal
of the local high school.
Hawn is fun and is surrounded by a good cast which includes Swoosie Kurtz as her best friend; James Keach as her ex-husband; Jan Hooks as Keach's current wife; Nipsey Russell as the
principal
of the rough high school Hawn's assigned to; and (before becoming famous) Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes as football players (these two actors would later team up for "White Men Can't Jump" and "Money Train").
The performances from the
principal
actors (Holbrook excepted) are painful, the use of a lunar module in the faked Mars landing scenes would not fool a 10 year old viewer.
Betty Anderson (Terry Moore) is the town "fast girl" whose romantic liaisons set the community's tongues wagging, while Constance tries to fight her attraction to high school
principal
Mike Rossi (Lee Phillips), again afraid of history repeating itself.
The lively and engaging acting from a game cast qualifies as a major plus: the adorable Felice Schachter as sweet school newspaper reporter geek Bernadette, Robert Mandan as pompous
principal
Walter J. Coolidge, Scatman Crothers as cranky baseball coach Dexter Jones, Greg Bradford as jerky college preppie Robert Wolcott, Sue Ane Langdon as ditsy English teacher Rose Burnhart, and Hilary Beane as sexy secretary Corinne Updike.
Not to mention every damn staff member of this particular school seems to weakly withhold perverse temptations among attractive female students, including Roddy McDowell as the creepy
principal.
If you can't stand all three of the
principal
stars, skip it by all means.
Great tracking shot in the opening, fine premise set up with the film's first (and principal) villain, then the scene cuts to Joseph Cotten, Edward Sloan, and Ruth Warrick, and suddenly it is like the driest stage play one can imagine.
I only recently came across this phenomenon called the "Indigo child" when a former school principal, upon listening to some of the tales of my firstborn, suggested that she was most likely an "Indigo child."
Except perhaps for EIGHT MEN OUT, or films where the sport is not the
principal
subject, like COBB, FIELDS OF DREAM, FEAR STRIKES OUT or BULL DURHAM, a comedy.
The two
principal
players are quite nice, with Garner doing a fine job as the jilted girlfriend of long ago and McConaughey very competent in a role so familiar that he could do it well in his sleep.
Lana Turner gives her best performance ever, minimizing any annoying postures, heading a mostly noble ensemble cast, with the possible exception of Lee Phillips, handsome as the small town's new principal, but somewhat grating in character.
Glossy melodrama directed by Mark Robson allows star Lana Turner to suffer nobly, playing single mother to graduating teenager Diane Varsi, harboring a skeleton in her family closet while being romanced by high school
principal
Lee Philips (in an appealing performance).
The main problem is Justin Lo, who assumes the role of writer, director, film editor and
principal
actor.
There was mention of the Depression Germany and the rest of the world was in and all five of the
principal
players were affected by it, one way or another.
Proffer),"Lassie Come Home",'43, plays the school
principal
and looks too young to play this role.
No trip to the
principal'
s office, no phone calls home and no contact with the local police.
We have: 1) The authority: a mean and not-so-cold-hearted school principal, who pretends to be to tough to care but in the end proves that deep down she has feelings and all.
7) The drama moment: the final scene where all of the above (yes, the
principal
too) come together in a dance contest that the for-some-reason-loaded dance teacher manages to get them into by paying a fortune.
The second one takes place in 1974, and is about a teacher of French, gay not assumed aiming to be the
principal
of his school, and his best student, who is not secure of his sexual identity.
Nipsey Russell has one of the best roles of his career as the
principal
of the school that hires her and there are some very funny moments provided by the members of the team, especially Woody Harrelson, Nick Corri, and in a star-making turn, a very young Wesley Snipes.
Our lead, Charlie, has a romantic interlude with the lead female character, the
principal'
s daughter, and I couldn't imagine a more sterile, unromantic joining.
It was nominated for and should have won the Academy Award for it's
principal
film editor Thelma Schoonmaker who would go on to successful career editing such films as The Color of Money, Good fellas, Cape Fear, The Kings of Comedy, Gangs of New york, The Last Temptation of Christ and The Aviator.
The film looks at the impact of guns and their violence in 3 settings- through the impact on the mother (Marcia Gay Harden) and brother of a Columbine High type shooter in Oregon, a frustrated school
principal
(Forrest Whittaker) in inner city Chicago, and in a gun store in Charlottesville Virginia with grandfather-owner (Donald Sutherland) and his granddaughter (Linda Cardinelli from ER).
Her mother Suzan 'Sue' Berlin (Barbara Barrie) is a bitter school teacher that likes to flirt with the
principal
Arthur Gold (Bob Dishy), who is married with the housewife Alice Gold (Madeline Kahn) that is close to a breakdown.
If the
principal
characters had had different names and each episode a credit such as "using ideas from a novel by Ngaio Marsh," I would have given it a much higher rating.
Some of the side joke adult characters such as the
principal
of the school (Meagan Mullaly of TV's "Will and Grace") and an over enthusiastic competitive coach (Patrick Warburton of (Kronk's New Groove).
It was also nice to see Megan Mullally as the schools
principal
but she was totally wasted in this part.
Among them Bruce Campbell as Heather's silent but understanding father and Patricia Clarkson as the strict school
principal
Mrs. Traverse.
Ms. Griffith should be at the very center of a firestorm of debate on what's wrong with Hollywood, and the
principal
lesson we can learn from movies like this one is that Hollywood is lazy.
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