Summer School 1987

Critics score:
61 / 100

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Janet Maslin, New York Times: Mr. Harmon has an easygoing attractiveness, but neither he nor anyone else seems comfortable with the film's antic pace. And for all its busyness, this comedy has no real focus, ricocheting from character to character with wearying abandon. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: A comedy so listless, leisurely and unspirited that it was an act of the will for me to care about it, even while I was watching it. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: A bit bland compared to Reiner's Steve Martin comedies, but engagingly played. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Here are some of Summer School's favorite things: idiocy, illiteracy, irresponsibility, drunkenness, dumbness and debauchery. Piqued? Read more

Rita Kempley, Washington Post: The moral is a sweet one: If you try, you never fail. The world is graded on a curve. Read more