KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

BlackJack_B High School Confidential! is one of those films that was meant to be a straight drama but ends up being an unintentional laugh riot when you see grown actors trying to act hip while delivering dialog that stereotypes the scene of a 1950's High School.Russ Tamblyn plays an undercover cop who attempts to clean out a high school of pot smokers and heroin. Mamie Van Doren (wearing bullet bras under her outfits) plays his "aunt" in her typical vampish style. John Drew Barrymore plays a Southern accented drug dealer who is the main target of the bust and Jackie "Uncle Fester" Coogan plays the drug boss.What makes HSC so funny is the dialog. Grown adults uttering dated "hip" dialog and the constant amount of sexist come-ons to the females made me laugh. Pushing the propaganda of marijuana as evil and sinister seems really outdated since more people than ever before are toking. Regardless, it's worth viewing to laugh at the script. It's worth waiting out the boring scenes just for that next piece of emoting that Dante from Devil May Cry stole from them.I do wish I lived my teen years in the 1950's. Seemed like a fun time to go to school. Maybe Jerry Lee Lewis would show up in a flat bed truck to perform to students.

Dalbert Pringle Fave Movie Quote - "If you flake around with weed, you'll end up using the harder stuff." The highlight of this hilariously awful "marijuana" morality play is the live performance given by pop-sensation Jerry Lee Lewis (who in 1957, at 22, had married the 13 year-old daughter of his cousin) doing his big hit "Great Balls of Fire" for all the rockin' potheads at Santa Bellow High.High School Confidential features blonde bombshell Mamie Van Doren, as Gwen Dulaine, Tony's oversexed aunt in super-tight, cleavage-enhancing sweaters.Undercover narcotics officer, Tony Baker, enrolls as a student at Santa Bellow High. Posing as a loud-mouthed tough, Tony immediately begins muscling his way into the school's rife drug scene.As Tony quickly moves up the drug-dealing ladder, his wised-up teacher tries to reform him, his hot aunt tries to seduce him, and all the "weedheads" at school eagerly line up for their chance to sample one of Tony's choice marijuana-sticks.Tony soon joins up with the Wheeler Dealers, one of Santa Bellow's toughest gangs, and, before long, the heat is on.High School Confidential contains lots of unintentionally hilarious dialog. And watching the actors as they desperately attempt to look/be "cool" is what makes this film well-worth a view.

delibebek "High School Confidential" is a tale with a moral, but it doesn't wait until the end to start preaching. The topic of interest is made clear early on, and the effects are as logical as those that were outlined in "Reefer Madness" in the 1930s. But while the older movie seemed designed to inspire drug use, and somehow got remodeled to look like an attempt to sober the youth, "High School Confidential" was designed to show the dangers of dope - hocking the family's prized possessions and engaging in drag races. None of these things could happen to young people who hadn't been smoking marijuana. Teenagers are just too practical when not under the influence.Somehow, the movie tries to get over on the young people by showing what a great feel they have for the current lingo. When Tony first arrives at his new high school, even his English teacher is teaching them about slang, explaining what some of the terms mean, as if this is how slang spreads, through the great American education system. When she steps from the room, one of the students, in his early 30s by the look of him, demonstrates the eloquence of the latest hip chatter by reciting the story of Columbus asking Isabella for financing to prove the world is round. After all, when the English teacher teaches about slang, perhaps the history teacher spreads contemporary misconceptions about history as well. In addition, there is a nice demonstration of the difference between a "normal cigarette" and a hand- rolled joint. That's education in action.In a broader perspective, this story picks up where "On the Road" left off, continuing the story of post-war American youth into the next generation. While Kerouac's crew were among those wild ones slipping under the radar of social consciousness not yet ingrained to the need stronger values to protect their cultural ideals, the HSC crew were just indignantly rebellious in their music, their language, and especially in what they smoked.This movie is no "Blackboard Jungle" just another movie trying to use the new trend of white- sung rock and roll to trample the seeds of iniquity before society has a chance to water them. Looking at the 60s, this movie may have fostered more drug use than it intended to hinder. They make it look fun, after all.

crossbow0106 You have to love watching a film like this now, its like opening a time capsule. Russ Tamblyn plays Tony Baker, a hood just transferred to this particular high school. The film is almost a cautionary tale about illegal drug use, but it also includes a drag race and a little bit about sexual attraction. Watching it now is also fun because of the people in it: Mr. Tamblyn, Michael Landon, Charlie Chaplin, JR (yes, the tramp's son!), Jackie Coogan (interesting that Chaplin's son and "The Kid" are in the same film), Jerry Lee Lewis (performing the title song) and the attractive Jan Sterling, who plays Miss Williams. Most of the dialogue is slang for those times, which is a lot of fun now. The film is less than 90 minutes long and it rolls along pretty well. Its just great to watch now. Really, enjoy it, its fun.