Stars: Rob Lowe, Jacqueline Bisset, Andrew McCarthy, Cliff Robertson, Joan Cusack, John Cusack, Virginia Madsen, Stuart Margolin, Alan Ruck, Casey Siemaszko, Anna Maria Horsford, John Cusack, Casey Siemaszko, Joan Cusack, Remak Ramsay

Director: Lewis John Carlino

Summary: A college boy has an affair with an older woman, who turns out to be his best friend's mother! She turns him from a clumsy virgin into an experienced lover.

A delightful comedy about the outrageous sexual exploits of two young prep school students (Lowe and McCarthy) who's friendship is painfully tested when one of them has an affair with the other's seductive mother (Bisset.)

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As rites-of-passage films featuring a young man's sexual initiation in the arms of a beautiful woman go, Class(1983) has plenty going for it, not least its attractive cast: Andrew McCarthy as Jonathan, Rob Lowe as Gatsby-ish best friend Skip and Jacqueline Bisset as the beautiful woman who is old enough to know better and just happens to be Skip's mother.

Lewis John Carlino's film has moments of insight, taking a few well-aimed shots at the vaguely sinister network of American public school life. In the first reel it neatly subverts the bullying scenario that threatens when the geekish Jonathan arrives at the school, while offering the briefly intriguing sight of Lowe in scarlet bra and pants. And there's a subplot of deceit and complicity that both strengthens and threatens the friendship that rapidly forms between Skip and Jonathan. In many ways, though, the most interesting element of the picture--Skip's relationship with his dysfunctional family--is left unexplored. Jonathan's deflowering and subsequent interludes are merely titillating. And Bisset's Ellen, a desperately sad character, becomes superfluous once the revelation that she is the "teacher" sets the boys' friendship on the path to fraternal solidarity.

On the DVD:Classis presented in widescreen anamorphic format and looks as good as its leading players, although the Dolby Digital mono soundtrack has odd moments of flatness that detract from the cinematic experience. Extras are limited to the cinema trailer that now looks like a red rag to the puritanical objectors who were appalled by the graphic scenes in which Jonathan loses his virginity to the predatory Ellen. --Piers Ford

Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Trailer - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer
Year:	1983
Release Date:	January 6, 2003
Runtime:	94 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	21384 D V D
Keywords:	Comedy, General, Class
Genre:	Comedy