Three O'Clock High [Blu-ray]

Director: Phil Joanou Phil Joanou

Overview

The first feature film from director Phil Joanou (State of Grace), Three O' Clock High chronicles a high school nerd's much hyped after-school bout with the infamous class bully. When the impish Jerry Mitchell (Casey Siemaszko) is assigned to interview the new transfer student with a supposedly violent past, Buddy Revell (Richard Tyson), he makes the fatal mistake of touching his subject. Revell, who hates being touched, responds by challenging the unwilling Mitchell to a fight at three o'clock in the parking lot. Spanning the course of the school day, the film follows the disaster-bound Mitchell as he soils his good-boy image through various misguided attempts at averting the fight. Also making noteworthy appearances in the film are Jeffrey Tambor and Philip Baker Hall. ~ Rachel Deahl

Product Details

Release Date:	10/17/2017
UPC:	0826663180299
Original Release:	1987
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	Shout Factory
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	1:37:00
Sales rank:	14,480

Special Features

Audio commentary with director Phil Joanou; "Head of the Class" - an interview with Phil Joanou; "Passing the Test" - interviews with screenwriters Richard Christian Matheson and Tom Szollosi; "School Clothes" - an interview with costume designer Jane Ruhm; Theatrical Trailer; Still Gallery

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Casey Siemaszko	Jerry Mitchell
Richard Tyson	Buddy Revell
Stacey Glick	Brei Mitchell
Jonathan Wise	Vincent Costello
Jeffrey Tambor	Mr. Rice
Liza Morrow	Karen Clarke
John P. Ryan	Mr. O'Rourke,Franny Perrins,Actor
Philip Baker Hall	Detective Mulvahill
Scott Tiler	Bruce Chalmer
Theron Read	Mark Bojeekus
Mike Jolly	Craig Mattey
Charles Macaulay	Actor
Mitch Pileggi	Duke Herman
Guy Massey	Scott Cranston
E. Kerr	Mrs. Phillips
Caitlin O'Heaney	Miss Farmer
Vivian Brown	Miss Vail
John Rothman	Mr. Medved
Shirley Stoler	Eva
Alice Nunn	Nurse Palmer
Brian Andrews	Nerdy Kid
Paul Feig	Hall Monitor
Yeardley Smith	Cheerleader
Tom Taylor	Jock #3
Tangerine Dream	Composer
Christopher Franke	Composer
Sylvester Levay	Composer

Technical Credits

Thomas Szollosi

Richard Matheson

Alan Greisman	Executive Producer
Phil Joanou	Director
Aaron Spelling	Executive Producer
David E. Vogel	Producer
Thomas Szollosi	Screenwriter
Richard Matheson	Screenwriter,Screenwriter

Editorial Reviews

Often mistakenly canonized among the collection of 1980s teen comedies about the joys and horrors of the high school experience (Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Sixteen Candles, and Pretty in Pink, to name a few), director Phil Joanou's darkly humorous tale of an impending after-school fight between the class geek and the school bully, although seemingly innocuous, is a surprisingly stylistic effort. Employing numerous jump cuts and extreme close-ups throughout, Joanou deftly dramatizes (or, rather, melodramatizes) his central character's precarious situation by repeatedly zeroing in on the ever-ominous clock that hangs over him during his six-hour stretch at school. Three O'Clock High, which recalls Martin Scorsese's frenetic 1985 comedy After Hours, winningly captures the bumbling, downward spiral of its adolescent everyman hero. More adroit cinematically than one might assume, Joanou's feature is an unexpectedly smart satire.

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