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Show I i i ; i i w K!b- HM by Rick Brough 'Animal House meets The Graduate' S A A Classic Recommended Good double-feature double-feature material Time-killer For masochists I only A junior high but Bisset is shocked to find he's underage. un-derage. She promptly deserts de-serts him. This is Incredible Incident No. 2. While recovering from his sorrow, McCarthey travels to his roommate's home for Christmas and , discovers that his lover, the older woman, is his buddy's mother! That's Incredible Incident No. 3. The stupid plot only flies as long as it does because McCarthy gives a straightforward straight-forward portrayal that attracts at-tracts our sympathy. And Bisset gives the impression that she is as crazy and contradictory con-tradictory as the script makes her. Rob Lowe, as the roommate, room-mate, is more irritating than likeable. After watching wat-ching him and his buddies pull obnoxious pranks, one feels the irresistible impulse to hang every preppie in America by his school ties. Another stupid plot in the movie is about an investigator in-vestigator from the state attorney at-torney general's office (Stuart Margolin) who is conducting mass interrogations in-terrogations at the school. The reason for this Inquisition? He's trying to find out who among the students has been cheating on his SAT tests! "Class" is reasonably well-acted and directed. But to what purpose? The story has no logic, and nothing to involve us. This class is well worth sleeping through. Reel World Class There are movies where it is unwise to step out too long to get popcorn. Through the first 20 minutes of "Class," you will be convinced you're watching another version of "Animal House." Thirty minutes more, however, and the picture turns into "The Graduate." When you come back from the concession stand, you might think you stepped into the wrong theater. The only way you can retain your sanity is to (a) sit through the whole picture as it makes its strange Jekyll-and-Hyde switches, or (b) if you watch carefully, you will notice that the same young actor (Andrew McCarthey) Mc-Carthey) appears in both sections of the film. This, after all, is his story. McCarthey plays the new student at a fancy Illinois prep school. On his first day at the dorm, his roommate (Rob Lowe) informs him that it's the custom for new kids to dress up in women's underwear. Of course, when he's shoved out into the quad in bra and panties, he finds that he is the only person so clothed. The roommate is such a lovable rapscallion that McCarthey Mc-Carthey forgives him. And anyway, the new kid stages a prank of his own a mock-suicide mock-suicide that shows he's one of the boys. Golly. What fun. Later, McCarthey takes a trip into Chicago, and while clumsily table-hopping at a singles bar, is picked up by a sympathetic older woman. The lady (Jacqueline Bissett) is not only sym-Tathetic, sym-Tathetic, but hungry. She seduces the kid in an open glass elevator. This is Unbelievable Un-believable Incident No. 1. The affair continues merrily until Bisset gets a look at his driver's license. McCarthey looks like he barely graduated from |