If you loved Girls Just Want to Have Fun, try Back to School

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Both films are directed by Alan Metter, and they both carry the playful mood tag, and they sit in Comedy territory. If that's the register that drew you to Girls Just Want to Have Fun, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Back to School is

Apparently college is the new midlife crisis. Thornton Melon enrolls at his son's college. It predictably gets silly.

If you loved Girls Just Want to Have Fun, try Back to School

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What Back to School is

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If you loved Girls Just Want to Have Fun, try Back to School

Girls Just Want to Have Fun

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What they share

What Back to School is

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