Director Richie Keen’s knockout high school-themed comedy, Fist
Fight, will be heading to the home entertainment arena on May 30 as
both DVD and Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack editions.
The ARR is 102 days and box office receipts currently stand
at $32 million.
The prospect of summer vacation has driven the students at
Roosevelt High School to check out academically, which leaves the faculty
frustrated with their all but hopeless efforts to maintain order. Except for one teacher, Mr. Strickland
(played by Ice Cube), who is sick and tired of their pranks and bad attitude …
he is a no-prisoners taken sort of teacher.
Meanwhile, Andy Campbell (Charlie Day — as Dale in the Horrible
Bosses films), a fellow teacher, is just trying to run out the
clock. His wife is pregnant and the
students are just noise … they will eventually go away.
That’s the set up for Keen’s teacher-themed version of
director Phil Joanou’s 1987 cult comedy, Three O’Clock High. A school out of control, a teacher with a
short fuse and another teacher who does everything possible to avoid
confrontation. Through a series of
misunderstandings and student pranks Strickland ends up challenging the meek
Campbell to an after-school fist fight … and the students are all for it.
Throughout the day it is on again, off again, on again …
there are interventions — Holly, the school counselor (played by Jillian Bell),
is absolutely hilarious in her failed attempts —the police are even called, but
it is all to no avail. The fight is on!
Bonus features for Fist Fight include deleted scenes
and the featurette titled “Georgia Film Commission.”
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