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User Rating:
4.7/10   140 votes
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Writers:
Oliver Hawthorne (screenplay)
Oliver Hawthorne (story)
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Release Date:
6 February 1983 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Family more
Plot:
A very intelligent teenager is sent to college where he meets his roommate, a popular jock. Therefore... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination more
User Comments:
Coleman's fun, but how smart can a dilapidated TV movie get? more (2 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Gary Coleman ... Nick Newell

Robert Guillaume ... Professor Mills
Kari Michaelson ... Julie Gordon (as Kari Michaelsen)
Mel Stewart ... Debs
Darian Mathias ... Dinah
Charles Bloom ... Travis Ault

Clayton Rohner ... Jeff Langford
Harriet Hilliard ... Professor Conklin
Dean Butler ... Steve Bensfield

Harrison Page ... Walter Newell

Starletta DuPois ... Minna Newell
Christina Murrill ... Denise Mills
Jason Max Adams
Karen Anders
Jimmy Baron
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Additional Details

Runtime:
96 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Iceland:L

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1 out of 3 people found the following comment useful.
Coleman's fun, but how smart can a dilapidated TV movie get?, 15 April 1999
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Author: Jason C. Atwood from Suffolk, Virginia

It would be awfully hard not to like this one with Gary Coleman as the witty, yet inadaptable under-age college student. He has all the "diff'rent strokes" to give a lasting impression to this, just as long as he's learning how to accept rough challenges that teach a crucial lesson in the world. I can't help not to be impressed by how the movie got started, though. There isn't a single clue as to why he's so smart in the first place, and the rest suddenly turns into inferiority. This piece of evidence results into glitches in the writing, and you may find out that it's all just a predictable coincidence in the making. Those who can remember "Arnold" will have something to look forward to once again. Great fun, but horribly wasted.

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