Up the Academy (1980)
The education they got wasn't in books.
Four boys are sent, for different reasons, to a Military Academy. The life of discipline asks a lot of the four geeks. Of course these boys know how to make a party out of the hard times. Will they be "real men" after one year.
- Date of release
- 1980-06-06
- TMDB
- 4.8 / 10 (37)
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Robert Downey Sr.
Casting
- Ralph Macchio — Chooch Bombalazzi
- Wendell Brown — Eisenhower "Ike" MacArthur
- Tommy Citera — Hash
- Hutch Parker — Oliver Holt (as J. Hutchison)
- Harry Teinowitz — Rodney Ververgaert
- Tom Poston — Sgt. Skip Sisson
- Antonio Fargas — Coach
- Stacey Nelkin — Candy
- Barbara Bach — Bliss
- Robert Downey Jr. — Boy on Soccer Team (uncredited)
- Ron Leibman — Major Vaughn Liceman (uncredited)
- Ian Wolfe — Commandant Causeway
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