Dangerously Close

  • Action
  • Crime
  • Thriller
5/9/1986
95
R

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Rebel without a cause or a clue at an elite but uptight college discovers some of his classmates have formed an even more elite clique more or less hell-bent on ridding the school, and quite possibly American society, of what they deem to be its undesirables because of ethnicity, politics, etc. Our hero recruits a teacher and some other "less desirable" classmates to undermine the elitists, and, naturally, things get quite violent.

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      • Wuchak

        A (superior) Massacre at Central High

        An underprivileged teen (J. Eddie Peck) attends an upper-class school near the coast in SoCal where a group of students, organized by a teacher whos a Vietnam vet, guard the school from thuggish behavior. The leader of the Sentinels (John Stockwell) tries to woo him into his increasingly arrogant group.

        Dangerously Close (1986) had the same producer as "Massacre at Central High" from ten years prior. I point this out because the plots & settings are similar, albeit this one doesnt have the awkward twist of the second half of Massacre and is an all-around improvement. Its similar to "Tuff Turf" from the previous year, but more focused (Tuff Turf is entertaining, but tried to be too many thin...

        September 14, 2023

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