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For the Deftones song, see Back to School (Mini Maggit).
For the movie, see Back to School.

Back to school, in clothing retail, is a product season and is characterized by a display of items appropriate to a school wardrobe.

Back to school sale

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Many department stores, such as Target, Wal-Mart, and Kmart advertise back to school sales as a time when school supplies and children's and young adults' clothing goes on sale. Many states offer tax-free periods (usually about a week) at which time any school supplies and children's clothing purchased does not have sales tax added.

This period of time usually lasts from mid-August through early September, before the school year starts in the US, UK, and Canada. In Australia and New Zealand, this usually occurs in January.

For the event in the marketing cycle, see Back-to-school. For the Deftones single, see Back To School (Mini Maggit)


Back to School

Back to School theatrical poster.
Directed byAlan Metter
Produced byChuck Russell
Written bySteven Kampmann
William Porter
Peter Torokvei
Harold Ramis
StarringRodney Dangerfield
Sally Kellerman
Burt Young
Keith Gordon
Ned Beatty
William Zabka
Sam Kinison
Robert Downey, Jr.
Paxton Whitehead
Music byDanny Elfman
CinematographyThomas E. Ackerman
Editing byDavid Rawlins
Distributed byOrion Pictures
Release date(s)June 13, 1986
Running time96 min.
Country United States
LanguageEnglish
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Back to School is a 1986 movie starring Rodney Dangerfield, Keith Gordon, Sally Kellerman, Burt Young, William Zabka, Sam Kinison, and Robert Downey, Jr. The plot centers on a wealthy but uneducated father (Dangerfield) who goes to college to show solidarity with his troubled son (Gordon) and learns that he cannot buy his education.

Author Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. has a cameo as himself, as does the band Oingo Boingo.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison was used as a backdrop for the movie, although it was called the fictional "Grand Lakes University."

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  • Most of the outdoor scenes at the college were shot on location at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The swim stadium scenes were filmed at the Industry swimming complex at the Industry Hills Sheraton and Country Club in the City of Industry, about 25 miles southeast of Hollywood, California. Some additional scenes were filmed at California State University, Los Angeles, California.
  • Dangerfield always looked out for younger comedic talents. He was a big proponent for Sam Kinison's part as a crazed professor in Back to School (They also considered Jim Carrey, but he was rejected as too young). Later when Chuck Russell (Producer) got the chance to direct 1994's the Mask, he was finally able to use Jim Carrey, transforming the Mask from a "very dark horror film" to a comedy.
  • Alice Cooper's song "The Great American Success Story" was apparently intended to be the theme song. Its lyrics summarize the plot and include Dangerfield's signature quip "he don't get no respect", and the chorus contains the title phrase. The song was not used in the film, and there is no mention of the connection in the liner notes of the album.
  • One of the last shots in the opening montage is of Rodney Dangerfield golfing. This was taken directly from his second film, Caddyshack.
  • Rodney Dangerfield, Robert Downey, Jr and Edie McClurg would later all appear in the film Natural Born Killers.
  • In the original script, Dangerfield's character was poor, but Harold Ramis suggested that it be changed to make him rich.
  • The room in which Thornton Melon takes his three-hour oral exam is the same room in which Alex Owens makes her successful dance audition in Flashdance.
  • The song playing at Chaz's fraternity party (before the girls abandon it for Melon's) is "Everybody's Crazy", a song from Michael Bolton's days as a metal singer.
  • Due to Dangerfield's contractual obligations with the Miller Brewing Company and his appearances in Miller Lite beer commercials at the time, only Miller beer was allowed to be shown (e.g. when Dangerfield goes to get a beer out of the refrigerator during the party at his house and during the party at the college when the police arrive with extra beer).
  • Although Ned Beatty's character is called "Dean Martin" throughout the movie (he is the dean of the school), his actual name is identified only once as David.
  • The nickname of the Grand Lakes University swim team is "Hooters."
  • A menu item at the Tex-Mex restaurant Moe's Southwest Grill is called "The Triple Lindy" in honor of the dive Melon did.
  • Kurt Vonnegut played himself in a cameo for the film in which he is hired by Thornton Melon to write a paper on the topic of the novels of Kurt Vonnegut. (As a joke, recognizing the work as not Melon's own, Professor Turner tells him, "Whoever did write this doesn't know the first thing about Kurt Vonnegut.")
  • The scene where Rodney Dangerfield does the Triple Lindy into the pool has been duplicated in the music video for the Sum 41 song "In Too Deep" where the drummer Steve does the Triple Lindy into the pool at a swimming contest.

Soundtrack

'Back to School'
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No cover image exists
Soundtrack by Various Artists
Released 1986
Genre Pop, Rock, Soul
Length 35:34
Label MCA
The soundtrack was originally only released in LP format, but was later released with selections from the score of Pee-wee's Big Adventure on CD.

Track listing

  1. "Back to School" (Jude Cole) – 4:16
  2. "Educated Girl" (Bobby Caldwell) – 4:07
  3. "Learnin' and Livin'" (Tyson & Schwartz) – 3:25
  4. "Everybody's Crazy" (Michael Bolton) – 4:37
  5. "I'll Never Forget Your Face" (Philip Ingram) – 4:07
  6. "Twist and Shout" (Rodney Dangerfield) – 2:51
  7. "Dead Man's Party" (Oingo Boingo) – 6:17
  8. "On My Way" (Tyson & Schwartz) – 3:30
  9. "Respect" (Aretha Franklin) – 2:24

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