MOVIE · 1984

Making the Grade

ComedyRomance105 min

A rich, carefree teenager is about to lose his inheritance unless he can prove he belongs in school, so he pays a streetwise hustler to take his place at an elite prep academy. Inside the campus gates, the scheme looks simple: keep teachers fooled, survive the social minefield, and stay one step ahead of anyone who notices the switch. It gets messier when class differences, teenage rivalries, and a growing romance threaten to expose the con. Judd Nelson and Jonna Lee are folded into a story built around mistaken identity, school politics, and a substitute student who starts wanting more than the paycheck.