Dangerously Close( 1986)

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Rebel without a cause or a clue at an elite but uptight college discovers some of his classmates have formed an even more elite clique more or less hell-bent on ridding the school, and quite possibly American society, of what they deem to be its undesirables because of ethnicity, politics, etc. Our hero recruits a teacher and some other "less desirable" classmates to undermine the elitists, and, naturally, things get quite violent.

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John Edward Peck
Donny Lennox
John Stockwell
Randy McDevitt
Carey Lowell
Julie
Bradford Bancroft
Krooger Raines
Don Michael Paul
Ripper
Thom Mathews
Brian Rigletti
Gerard Christopher
Lang Bridges
Madison Mason
Corrigan
Anthony De Longis
Smith Raddock
Carmen Argenziano
Molly
Miguel A. Núñez Jr.
Leon Biggs
Dedee Pfeiffer
Nikki
Karen Lorre
Betsy
Greg Finley
Morelli
Debra Berger
Ms. Hoffman
Angel Tompkins
Ms. Waters
Rosalind Allen
Mrs. McDonald
Dru-Anne Perry
Barbie
Tom Fridley
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A review by Wuchak

Written by Wuchak on Thu Sep 14 2023

**_A (superior) Massacre at Central High_** An underprivileged teen (J. Eddie Peck) attends an upper-class school near the coast in SoCal where a group of students, organized by a teacher who’s a Vietnam vet, guard the school from thuggish behavior. The leader of the Sentinels (John Stockwell) tries to woo him into his increasingly arrogant group. “Dangerously Close” (1986) had the same producer as "Massacre at Central High" from ten years prior. I point this out because the plots & settings are similar, albeit this one doesn’t have the awkward twist of the second half of “Massacre” and ...