Class of 1984



Class of 1984 is a 1982 action-thriller movie about a newly hired music teacher at a troubled inner city school, where students have to pass through a metal detector due to problems with gangs, drugs and violence.


 * Backstab Backfire:
 * Berserk Button: Let's just say you don't mess with Andy's wife.
 * Bittersweet Ending:.
 * Blondes Are Evil: Patsy.
 * Can't Get Away with Nuthin': One kid buys drugs off the gang and takes a sniff. Five minutes later he climbs the flag pole and falls to his death.
 * Chekhov's Gag: Inverted. We see Terry carries a gun in his briefcase in the very first scene. It reappears in a darkly humorous scene where.
 * Clothing Damage: Diane . Andy's clothing also becomes more untidy and unravelled as he.
 * Cool Teacher: Mr Norris is this to his music class, since he's the only teacher in the school that actually cares.
 * Disappeared Dad: Implied to be Stegman's Freudian Excuse.
 * Disney Villain Death: Complete with the "give me your hand" failed trick.
 * The Dog Bites Back
 * Establishing Character Moment: The gang beating up another rival gang.
 * Fanservice Extra: One girl at the club who flashes her boobs. For the other side, the shirtless band member on stage.
 * Five-Bad Band: The gang:
 * The Big Bad: Stegman.
 * The Dragon / The Dark Chick: Patsy
 * The Evil Genius: Drugstore
 * The Brute: Fallon and Barnyard.
 * Hey, It's That Guy!: Marty McFly is Arthur.
 * Also, Corrigan is played by Dr. Cornelius
 * Hidden Depths: Stegman is quite the talented piano player.
 * Hollywood Nerd: Arthur.
 * Inner-City School
 * Kick the Dog: Because Terry helped Andy save two kids from the gang, they punish him by.
 * Mama Bear: Stegman's mother certainly flies into a rage when Andy supposedly assaults him. Too bad she's so clueless.
 * Papa Wolf
 * Teenage Wasteland: The school and the town are well on their way to becoming this.
 * Teens Are Monsters: Played with. Only the gang members are actually that sadistic although there are other troubled kids in the school, Mr Norris makes a point to stress that there are good kids there and the principal eventually agrees saying "it's just the bad ones command all our attention".
 * What Happened to the Mouse?: It's never actually confirmed whether or not  as she is last seen bleeding in the front seat of the car, panting.
 * Wouldn't Hit a Girl:.
 * Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Stegman slams his head off of a mirror and a sink and then wipes his blood onto Mr. Norris' hand to get him suspended.
 * Very Loosely Based on a True Story