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Cheerfully and rudely haphazard.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Up the Academy
The education they got wasn't in books.
1980 · 1h 27m · R
Comedy
Directed by
Robert Downey Sr.
Overview
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.
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