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Junior High School (1978)

Junior High School poster
Directed by
Michael Nankin
Genre
musical film, romance film, teen film
Country
United States
Runtime
37 min
Rated
NR
Rating
3.8 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A musical featurette about the first day of school for a group of seventh and eighth graders. The story follows Jerry Sanders through a day of songs and dance numbers with his classmates.

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What happens

Junior High School is a 1978 musical featurette starring P. David Ebersole as Jerry Sanders. The film chronicles the first day of term at a dramatized school of seventh and eighth graders, and consists of seven songs along with several dance numbers. The only member of the cast to become well known later is Paula Abdul, though she played a relatively minor role in the film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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