Husband-and-wife team Michael Tucker and Jill Eikenberry, who are still best known as Stuart Markowitz and Ann Kelsey in TV's LA Law, star in this tepid true-life TV movie directed by Daniel Petrie, a gifted screenwriter who made his name with the Oscar-nominated script for Beverly Hills Cop. Usually school movies are about dedicated teachers struggling to impart a little knowledge into delinquent teens, but here the problem lies with the parents in a small town who disapprove of city slicker Tucker's modern methods. There is more controversy and drama on Ricki Lake or Montel Williams chat shows and the performances are better, too!

An unconventional New England principal tries some radical new techniques to reform the high school he is hired at, and ends up the object of great controversy. A true story.