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Senior Trip (1981) is a English movie. Kenneth Johnson has directed this movie. Scott Baio,Faye Grant,Randy Brooks,Peter Coffield are the starring of this movie. It was released in 1981. Senior Trip (1981) is considered one of the best Comedy,Drama movie in India and around the world.
A group of graduating students from a midwestern high school comes to New York City on a trip to celebrate the impending end of school. The students include: Roger Ellis, an ambitious teen aiming for success in big business; David, an aspiring rock star; Judy Matheson, a stagestruck coed actress wannabe; Denise, a free-spirited girl hoping to obtain a degree of sophistication; Fred, a lotharo looking for any Big City woman to be with; and Jon Lipton, a would-be artist hoping to make it big. Mickey Rooney also appears briefly as himself during the backstage scene at the play "Sugar Babies."
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Senior Trip (1981) Reviews
A pleasant trip, which was a pleasant surprise.
I expected the usual sub-adolescent hi-jinks....anybody would, I guess, with that title.... and discovered instead a thoughtful little made-for-TV minor classic. I can recommend this heartily for its characterizations of a likeable and naive group of high school seniors, all together for the last time before setting out separately in the world, visiting New York all wide-eyed, and gaining insight into their soon-to-end adolescence and soon-to-commence responsibilities. Among the vignettes you'll see people you knew, or thought you did. And you might see yourself at that vulnerable age. An excellent study of a generation, and I highly recommend this generally-forgotten film which I never forgot.
Only gets better with each occasional viewing
I taped this CBS made-for-TV I guess back in 1981, not really knowing what it was about. I was so involved in trying to delete the commercial breaks, it was not until later I realized how good it was and not until about the fifth viewing that I realized Jason Alexander (later of Seinfield) was one of the Seniors. Like the song auditioned for Mickey Rooney, "One More Time", this movie gets better each time I view it. Since I goofed and let a few ads and station breaks slip in, I recently started a search for Senior Trip on DVD. No luck...and evidently it is not even available anymore on video. Scenes of New York include the now-gone World Trade Towers and great aerial shots of the city skyline and scope of Central Park. UPDATE: I found this title being shown this afternoon (Nov.28,2006) on Encore but unfortunately it had already started so I did not have a chance to record it on disc. Hopefully I can find the next showing and be ready.
Another one of Ken Johnson's classics
I bought this film for my collection after discovering that Faye Grant, famous as the beautiful heroine on the Mini-Series' & TV Series V was a standout in this movie (also written and directed by Kenneth Johnson who created V). From watching this thoughtful and funny telefilm, its clear to see why Kenneth Johnson called on Faye Grant to take on the female lead in V. And of course, Scott Baio is at his dramatic best here. The film soundtrack is also scored by Joe Harnell who worked for Kenneth Johnson on the Incredible Hulk as well as V: The Original Miniseries.
Gonna peel that apple!
This Quinn Martin made-for-TV movie recently popped up on Encore Love Stories, and my, but it's entertaining--in a painful, squirm-inducing, did that really happen? sort of way. It's the episodic tale of a group of high school seniors from Youngstown, Ohio, who travel to Noo Yawk City for the titular vacation. Why isn't made clear--perhaps this is a routine occurrence for high schoolers east of the Mississippi--but as aspiring songwriter David (Randy Brooks, who had started his career TEN YEARS EARLIER playing another high school student in Paul Bogart's Halls of Anger) belts out his self-penned Big Apple song ("gonna bite into that apple!" and other assorted bad puns) as the big yellow school bus traverses the big super-highway heading east, we get the immediate impression that these kids aren't going just to see the sights. Along for the ride are hemophiliac Wall Street Journal subscriber Roger (Scott Baio), who dreams of meeting his big business idol and selling him some semi-conductors; 'bad girl' Denise (Faye Grant), who wants to move to Manhattan and work in 'public relations'; aspiring Broadway star Judy (Liz Callaway), who's determined to hook up with Mickey Rooney for some advice about The Great White Way; and sensitive artist and policeman's son Jon (Jeff Lipton), who simply wants to learn about The Human Condition. Once in the city, the students are let loose by their erstwhile chaperone Mrs. Pritchardson (Jane Hoffman), who spends the entire film patrolling the hotel hallways in search of illicit substances whilst not appearing to give a damn about what the students get up to OUTSIDE the hotel. I guess there was no such thing as 'liability' back in 1981. At any rate, Bill Withers Jr.--er, David--finds himself disgusted by the record business, Roger gets a nasty cut in between business meetings, Denise decides that sleeping her way to the top may not be the best life plan, Judy belts one out for the Mickster (this is the film's one and only genuine highlight, the kid can sing), and Jon struggles with his sexuality. As the camera scans their fresh, not-so-young faces on the trip back to Youngstown (with the film's execrable theme song pounding nails into our brains one last time), we can rest assured that these bright young things have Learned Important Lessons and have Grown As Human Beings. Fans of Robert Townsend and Jason Alexander: your guys get nary a word of dialogue between them, but at least Jason has a full head of hair.
really?
while definitely not a "10," i was a tenaager in 1981 and found it mildly entertaining. I viewed it as a somewhat "coming of age" type of movie so took it at face value. I don' even remember Mickey Rooney even being in this movie nor his sigifcance to the plot at all. Just remember going through some coming of age issues myself and it rang true to me! :) As a bidding musician remember the coundrack more than anything and sometimes still hear it in my head when I am walking about town or in some other city! So that is my take on this pretty run of the mill TV movie. If I desired something more significant, I would not tune into a TV movie for it, for that I'd go to the movies which i do often.