

The most important scene in this film is when the characters, as a group, all open up to one-another and describe the hell that their daily school routines are in a personal fashion. Whether or not things remain the way they are long after this film ends is unknown, and that adds to the rama. They all change, in one way or another, by the end of the film.

Every character in this film is three-dimensional.

What makes this film rise above the rest is the character development. They all exist, to some degree or another, in the classrooms of every high school on the continent. The geek, the jock, the outcast, the rich pretty-girl snob, and the future criminal. As a child of the 80's, I can honestly say that this is a representative cross-section of every high school in North America. The fact is, every teen character in this movie can be related to someone we knew in high-school. This movie is one of the best, if not THE best, 80's film there is.
