HIGH School

2010 Comedy

A straight-laced high-school valedictorian schemes to get the entire senior class stoned in order to circumvent his principal's mandatory drug-testing policy. Henry Burke (Matt Bush) is the kind of teenager every parent dreams about having; he never ditches school, gets straight A's, and he's secured a college scholarship to pay for his higher education. Unfortunately there's just one thing standing in between Henry and his bright future -- his high-school principal. An uptight authoritarian with a hard-line anti-marijuana stance, Principal Gordon (Michael Chiklis) announces that the entire senior class will undergo mandatory drug testing, and anyone who refuses will be immediately expelled. Henry has just danced with Mary Jane for the very first time, and now his entire future is on the line thanks to a few innocent tokes. But Henry is a bright kid, and when he and local pothead Travix Breaux (Sean Marquette) put their heads together, they come up with a brilliant plan to subvert the testing policy: if they can just get every student in school stoned, Principal Gordon's plan to crucify his pot-loving charges will go completely up in smoke. more..

Director: John Stalberg, Jr.

Starring: Adrien Brody, Michael Chiklis, Matt Bush, Sean Marquette, Colin Hanks

Reviews

  • High School is a pun. Get it? This is one of those stoner comedies that may be funny if you're high - but if not, not.

    Roger Ebert - The Chicago Sun-Times

    19 January 2013

  • Once the plot has sprung into action, High School is a bumpy ride that takes a few amusing dives but never coheres into anything special.

    Stephen Holden - The New York Times

    19 January 2013

  • High School rushes through the parts it should savor and then pads out its runtime with filler elsewhere - and, less forgivably, it doesn't make getting high look like fun.

    - Movieline

    19 January 2013

  • Filmmakers must have been tripping pretty badly when they made High School, a flub that's about as lucid as a stoner at a spelling bee.

    Scott Bowles - USA Today

    19 January 2013

  • A lame stoner comedy.

    - New York Post

    19 January 2013

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