USA UP ALL NIGHT MONTH: Senior Week (1987)

EDITOR’S NOTE: Senior Week was on USA Up All Night on February 29 and October 2, 1992; September 10, 1993 and January 28, 1994.

Directed by Stuart A. Goldman — who mostly directed music-based movies and also produced Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean — and written by Jan Kubicki, Senior Week is led by Everett (Michael St. Gerard, who played Elvis in Great Balls of Fire! and the Elvis TV miniseries, as well as Link Larkin in Hairspray), who has hired someone else to write his final essay and gets caught by Mrs. Bagley (Barbara Gruen). She gives him another chance and he does the same thing, kidnapping the nerdy Jody (Gary Keer) to write his paper while everyone else parties at the beach, which brings Mrs. Bagely after Everett.

Our protagonist brings along his friends Jamie (George Robert Klek) and Kevin (Alan Naggar), which angers Jamie’s possessive girlfriend Tracy (Jennifer Gorey, Runway Dreams), who brings her friend Stacy (Leesa Zelkin) to hunt him down. Adding to the proceedings is that Everett promised Jody that he will find him a girl, which our geek does on his own by hooking up with Tracy’s cousin Debbie Sue. (Devon Skye).

This movie actually had some publicity, as the opening scene — filmed at New Jersey’s Palisades Park High School — had nudity in an actual school and it got principal Nicholas Rotonda suspended. Maybe the school board was wondering why someone was still making a teen sex comedy in 1987 in the time between the Porky’s clones and the American Pie clones. He was reinstated after his students protested and asked for their beloved principal — the kind of guy that had no problem with bare breasts in a teen comedy — be rehired.

You can watch this on Tubi.