No. 68 New Port South (2001) 11 of 100
Some young adult wish fulfilment now as a bunch of high school youths take on the school administration, man! The film opens in sepia tone with Michael (credited: Mike) Shannon punching in a bunch of windows and then being found in a janitor’s closet. The sepia represents the past and we get plenty of these flashback clips throughout the film. It’s now the present day and Maddox isn’t happy with the school administration. He doesn’t like the creepy gym teacher or the nasty history teacher who rips up his pal’s drawing just because it had insurrectionist symbols on it. No way! Maddox rallies his motley crew of friends to start a covert battle against the school bosses, who all seemed quite nice to me. They start with a flyer campaign and stick up posters outing teachers for their indiscretions. They take their lead from the legendary John Stanton who also stuck it to the man before he cut himself up in the opening sequence and was sent to a mental institution. In ...