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* ValuesDissonance: The protagonist is a white teen who dons {{blackface}} to get into Harvard through affirmative action. While the message was supposed to be against racism, it ignited controversy right upon its release.
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* ValuesDissonance: The protagonist is a white teen who dons {{blackface}} to get into Harvard through affirmative action. While the message was supposed to be against racism, it ignited controversy right upon its release.
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* ValuesDissonance: The protagonist is a white teen who dons {{blackface}} to get into Harvard through affirmative action. While the message was supposed to be against racism, it ignited controversy right upon its release, and you certainly could never get away with a premise like that in a mainstream comedy today.release.
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* HilariousInHindsight: This movie was a controversy magnet for having blackface as a story point, and basically killed C. Thomas Howell's career. 22 years later, [[Film/TropicThunder another movie]] would spark controversy for blackface, but instead it reignited [[Creator/RobertDowneyJr the actor's]] career and got him an ''Oscar nomination''.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: A post-SNL, pre-Seinfeld [[Creator/JuliaLouisDreyfus Julia Louis-Dreyfus]] appears briefly as a friend of Gordon and Mark.
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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: "It's the [[Creator/BillCosby Cosby]] decade!" Funny then, yikes-inducing now.
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* HeartwarmingInHindsight: C. Thomas Howell and Rae Dawn Chong started dating in real life at the time, and got married a few years after.
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* ValuesResonance: While there are many aspects about this film that wouldn't fly today, one redeeming aspect about the film is that when C. Thomas Howell's character becomes subject to disciplinary action, he actually acknowledges the fact that he's affected by white privilege as an individual, and says that he will never know what it truly feels like to be a person of a different race through experience.
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* ValuesResonance: While there are many aspects about this film that wouldn't fly today, one redeeming aspect about the film is that when C. Thomas Howell's character becomes subject to disciplinary action, he actually acknowledges the fact that he's affected by white privilege as an individual, and says that he will never know what it truly feels like to be a person of a different race through experience. And on top of that, he reimburses Sarah with the money that he fraudulently used to get into law school, plus a little extra.
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* ValuesResonance: While there are many aspects about this film that wouldn't fly today, one redeeming aspect about the film is that when C. Thomas Howell's character becomes subject to disciplinary action, he actually acknowledges the fact that he's affected by white privilege as an individual, and says that he will never know what it truly feels like to be a person of a different race through experience.
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* ValuesDissonance: The protagonist is a white teen who dons {{blackface}} to get into Harvard through affirmative action. While the message was supposed to be against racism, it ignited controversy right upon its release, and you certainly could never get away with a premise like that in a mainstream comedy today.
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* CriticalDissonance: The film was savaged critically, from its controversial premise to being described as a generally mediocre comedy movie. It still made its budget back hand over fist, opening at #3 in the country behind ''Film/CrocodileDundee'' and ''Film/TheColorOfMoney''.
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* CriticalDissonance: The film was savaged critically, from its controversial premise to being described as a generally mediocre comedy movie. It still made its budget back hand over fist, opening at #3 in the country behind ''Film/CrocodileDundee'' and ''Film/TheColorOfMoney''.''Film/TheColorOfMoney''.
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* CriticalDissonance: The film was savaged critically, from its controversial premise to being described as a generally mediocre comedy movie. It still made its budget back hand over fist, opening at #3 in the country behind ''Film/CrocodileDundee'' and ''Film/TheColorPurple''.''Film/TheColorOfMoney''.
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* CriticalDissonance: The film was savaged critically, from its controversial premise to being described as a generally mediocre comedy movie. It still made its budget back hand over fist, opening at #3 in the country behind ''Film/CrocodileDundee'' and ''Film/TheColorPurple''.
