Back to School

Back to School (1986) is the Rodney Dangerfield comedy you can watch online on iFILM, in which a loud-mouthed millionaire enrolls in college at fifty-something, right alongside his own son.

Thornton Melon built a fortune selling clothes for big and tall men, but he never finished school himself. When he learns that his son Jason has been lying about thriving on campus and is ready to drop out, Thornton signs up too, throwing enough cash around to practically buy the place. Money smooths the way: someone ghostwrites his papers, a pool gets built in his name, professors fawn over him. Earning Jason's respect, though, takes more than a checkbook. The supporting crowd includes a young Robert Downey Jr., William Zabka, and a manic Sam Kinison as an unhinged history lecturer.

This is pure eighties studio comedy: Dangerfield firing off one-liners, campus slapstick, and a climactic dive he calls the Triple Lindy. No hidden depths here, just a film carried wholesale by its star's nonstop motor. Fire up Back to School (1986) online on iFILM.