Making the Grade

Making the Grade (1984)

If you can't make it...fake it!

Lazy preppie Palmer Woodrow hires street-smart Eddie Keaton to go to school for him while he lives it up in Europe. Eddie falls in love with preppie gal Tracey, upsetting Biff, the Hoover Academy bully. When his bookie from the old neighborhood, Dice, comes to collect on Eddie's gambling debts and Palmer returns early from Europe, the scheme slowly starts to unravel. Soon, Eddie can't even tell whose side he's really on.

Date of release
1984-05-18
TMDB
5.1 / 10 (29)
Runtime
1h 45m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Dorian Walker

Casting

Interesting facts

Making the Grade is a 1984 American teen comedy film. It was directed by Dorian Walker and written by Charles Gale and Gene Quintano. It was filmed at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. It marks the debut of actor turned television producer Dan Schneider.

Production

The film began production under the working title of The Last American Preppie, but Chuck Vincent, who produced and directed the film Preppies, filed a complaint with the MPAA over the use of the words "preppie" and "preppy" The MPAA sided with Vincent and noted Preppies had been registered with the MPAA over a year before Cannon registered the titles The Last American Preppy and The Unofficial Preppy Movie prompting MGM/UA to change the name.

This film marks the first appearance of Andrew Clay's "Dice" persona.

Over 1,000 entries were received in the contest with the winning title, Making the Grade, suggested by then eighteen-year-old University of Central Florida student David Thollander. Ironically, Making the Grade had been on the shortlist of rejected alternate titles prior to the contest.

At the start of the film's final credits, the characters Palmer and Eddie are touted as returning in the upcoming movie, Tourista. However, after low theatrical interest in the duo and repeated missed deadlines (of which Olsen tried to contribute as a writer), the script for Tourista was never completed. The pair never teamed up in filmmaking again.

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