"Three O' Clock High" is a good, if naive high school movie about taking responsibility and making a stand. The guy who needs to make a stand in this story is Jerry, a completely innocent and defenseless guy who gets into trouble with a high school bully that swears he's going to beat him up after school. Over the course of the movie Jerry is trying to get out of this situation badly but in the end he is coming to the conclusion that sometimes you have to face your problems instead of running away. The moral of the story is a nice one, although it's not to be taken too seriously. "Solving problems" here means winning a fist fight and becoming the most popular guy in school. After all this is only a high school fairy tale, and a very enjoyable for that matter. "Three O' Clock High" is better in many aspects than you might realize at first. The direction and editing are more than solid, the score complements every scene nicely and scriptwise the very ending displays a clever counterpoint to an earlier scene in the movie, that shows how high school myths come into existence. All in all it's the perfect movie for a Sunday afternoon.
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