Crash Course (1988) [N/A]

Release Date:
January 18, 1988

Original Title:
Crash Course

Alternate Titles:
Driving Academy

Genres:
Comedy

Production Companies:
Fries Distribution Company

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 95

They're way over the limit ... and speeding into trouble!

Some students taking driver's ed during the summer. Among the students is Riko, a cocky guy; Chad, a guy from a privileged background, who's terrified to get behind the wheel; Vanessa, who's over protective mom who wouldn't allow her to take the course, who went behind her back; and Maria, a spoiled foreign student. Now the principal wants the students to pass so he tells the instructor, who's still not over his wife leaving and is not exactly up to the task, that it's important for the students to pass so he brought in a special instructor, who's very tough. And the principal also tells one of his teachers to let, one of the students Maslanski who's the school football star, pass the test he failed so that he can concentrate on driver's ed. But the teacher, seeing this as an opportunity to expose the principal as not doing his job and thus paving the way for him to be the new principal, makes Maslanski take a make up test

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Assistant Editor:
Chip Masamitsu

Assistant Property Master:
David Richardson

Associate Producer:
Yuri Spilny

Camera Operator:
John Simmons

Casting:
Melissa Skoff

Costume Designer:
Michele Jo Blanche

Director:
Oz Scott

Director of Photography:
Bernd Heinl

Editor:
Duane Hartzell

Executive In Charge Of Production:
S. Bryan Hickox

Executive Producer:
Charles W. Fries

Extras Casting:
Marguerite Cravaty

First Assistant Director:
Ira Shuman

Gaffer:
Bob Good

Hairstylist:
Laura Connolly

Key Costumer:
Cheryl Mitchell

Key Grip:
Steve Arndt

Location Manager:
Pavel Cerny

Makeup Artist:
Elaine L. Offers
N. Kristine Chadwick

Music Editor:
John Mick

Original Music Composer:
Mark Davis

Producer:
Irv Wilson

Production Controller:
Joan Stevenson

Production Coordinator:
Rita Rokisky

Production Design:
Michael Erler

Property Master:
Albert Able

Script Supervisor:
Linda Arcari

Second Assistant Director:
Kenneth D. Collins

Set Decoration:
Jane Osmann

Sound Mixer:
Arnold Braun

Special Effects:
Richard Johnson

Stunt Coordinator:
Fred Waugh

Unit Production Manager:
Robert G. Stone

Writer:
William A. Schwartz

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