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Class of 1984

1982 · TMDB 6.4

Directed by Mark L. Lester

Andy is a new teacher at an inner city high school that is unlike any he has seen before. There are metal detectors at the front door and the place is basically run by a tough kid named Peter Stegman. Soon, Andy and Stegman become enemies and Stegman will stop at nothing to protect his turf and drug dealing business.

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A Canadian cult classic in which a new teacher at a violent urban high school decides to fight fire with fire, taking the law into his own hands against a gang of thugs. Perry King's Andrew Norris is the dark mirror of Thackeray's idealism.

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