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Up the Academy is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Robert Downey Sr. released in USA on 6 june 1980 with Ron Leibman

Up the Academy (1980)

Up the Academy
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Released in USA 6 june 1980
Length 1h27
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy
Rating47% 2.3557252.3557252.3557252.3557252.355725

Up the Academy is an American teen comedy film released in 1980, with a plot about the outrageous antics of a group of misfits at a military school.

Synopsis

At the Sheldon R. Wienberg Academy, four young teens are sent to school and learn the discipline that the school teaches. Almost immediately, they don't like what is going on. Along the way, they plan their own actions from looking for girls to holding a party without the faculty's knowledge. The film's title comes from the fictitious academy itself.

Actors

Ron Leibman

(Major Vaughn Liceman (uncredited))Ralph Macchio

(Chooch Bombalazzi)Tom Poston

(Sgt. Skip Sisson)King Coleman
Barbara Bach

(Bliss)
And :
Ian Wolfe
Antonio Fargas
Stacey Nelkin
Robert Downey Jr.
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