Rodney Dangerfield
Thornton Melon
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Jun 13, 1986 · Back to School: Directed by Alan Metter. With Rodney Dangerfield, Sally Kellerman, Burt Young, Keith Gordon. To help his discouraged son get through college, a funloving and obnoxious rich businessman decides to enter the school as a student himself.
- (36K)
- Comedy, Romance, Sport
- Alan Metter
- 1986-06-13
Back to School is a 1986 American comedy film starring Rodney Dangerfield, Keith Gordon, Sally Kellerman, Burt Young, Terry Farrell, William Zabka, Ned Beatty, Sam Kinison, Paxton Whitehead, Robert Downey Jr., M. Emmet Walsh, and Adrienne Barbeau. It was directed by Alan Metter.
Jun 12, 2021 · Millionaire Thornton Melon’s (Rodney Dangerfield) son is a college misfit, so Thornton lends some fatherly support...by enrolling as a fellow freshman! Who cares if he never finished high school?...
- 2 min
- 158K
- Amazon MGM Studios
Back to School (1986) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Thornton Melon (Rodney Dangerfield) is concerned that his son Jason (Keith Gordon) is unsure whether to go to college, so the uneducated self-made millionaire encourages him by signing up as a...
- (39)
- Alan Metter
- PG-13
- Rodney Dangerfield
When Dangerfield discovers the truth, he decides to enroll in the university as a freshman so he can teach his son the ropes. Of course, there's resistance to this plan, but not after Dangerfield endows the Melon School of Business Administration. The campus characters are predictable, but well-cast.
Summaries. To help his discouraged son get through college, a funloving and obnoxious rich businessman decides to enter the school as a student himself. Millionaire businessman Thornton Melon is upset when his son Jason announces that he is not sure about going to college.
