High School High (1996)
51KHigh School High: Directed by Hart Bochner. With Jon Lovitz, Tia Carrere, Louise Fletcher, Mekhi Phifer. Richard Clark has just left the well-known Wellington Academy to teach at Marion Barry High School. Now, he will try to inspire the D-average students into making good grades and try to woo a fellow teacher.
“Spoofing u0026#39;Dangerous Minds,u0026#39; u0026#39;Lean on Me,u0026#39; and others, Jon Lovitz stars in u0026#39;High School Highu0026#39; as an ambitious, optimistic teacher from a prep school who wants to prove to his father that he is perfectly capable of inspiring his students at an inner-city high school. While there, he inadvertently becomes involved in a turf war between two rival students and their idiotic posses.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eTime capsule movie spoofs the mid 90s scene of hip hop has one gag after another, but is probably more destined for laughs for younger teenagers or first-time viewers. I caught this movie on cable after not having seen it in a few years and didnu0026#39;t think it was as funny as I first remember it. Best recommended for Jon Lovitz fans, as he always does well as the clueless doofus. With Tia Carerre, Louise Fletcher, Mekhi Phifer, and Guillermo Diaz.”