Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life

Griffin Gluck Director: Steve Carr Steve Carr

Overview

Budding young artist Rafe (Griffin Gluck) transfers to a new middle school, where the rules-obsessed principal (Andrew Daly) quickly punishes him for his failure to conform by destroying a book of his drawings. Rafe then decides to fight back by playing pranks and breaking every rule in school. Lauren Graham, Rob Riggle, Adam Pally, and Retta co-star. Directed by Steve Carr. ~ Jack Rodgers

Product Details

Release Date:	01/03/2017
UPC:	0031398257219
Original Release:	2016
Rating:	PG
Source:	Lions Gate
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen, Color]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Time:	1:32:00
Sales rank:	30,670

Special Features

That Middle School life; Middle School = the worst/Making movies = the best; The wedgie wheel; Yolo: behind operation rafe; Gag reel; Deleted scenes

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Griffin Gluck	Rafe Khatchadorian
Lauren Graham	Jules
Rob Riggle	Carl aka "Bear"
Thomas Barbusca	Leo
Andrew Daly	Dwight
Adam Pally	Mr. Teller
Retta	Ida Stricker
Isabela Moner	Jeannie Galleta
Efren Ramirez	Gus
Alexa Nisenson	Georgia
Jacob Hopkins	Miller
Luke Christopher Hardeman	Shon
Jessi Goei	Bella
Isabella Amara	Heidi
Gemma Forbes	Dana
Jonah Bowling	Dave and Busters Boy / Student
Madeleine Stack	Girl at Assembly
Angela Oh	Superintendant Hwang
Miranda Saliva	Student
Ricardo Riveron	Student
Bethany Hartman	Teacher
Jake Buffenbarger	Student
Trey Carroll	Student- Catches Confetti
Alyssa Riley Burrell	Student
Storm Bell	Glee Club / Middle School Student
Tabitha Ott	Student 1
Celine Borroto Alvarez	Student
Montana Jacobowitz	Student
Patrick Fagan	Campaign Boy: Norman Hendrickson
Nora Ordinario	Glee Club Singer
Emma Dison Brantley	Homeroom Student
Santana Draper	Middle School Student
Patti Schellhaas	Mom at Dave & Busters
Jonathan Kankolenski	Chef
Anastasia Bastien	Student

Technical Credits

Chris Bowman

Kara Holden

Hubbel Palmer

Steve Carr	Director
Nicole Abellera	Casting
Alan Au	Art Director
Perry Andelin Blake	Production Designer
Steve Bowen	Executive Producer
Chris Bowman	Screenwriter
Wendy Greene Bricmont	Editor
Stine Marie Buhl	Animator
Jeff Cardoni	Score Composer
Susan Cartsonis	Executive Producer
Ken Duncan	Animator
Selena Evans-Miller	Makeup
Luca Fattore	Animator
Michael Flynn	Executive Producer,Production Manager
Leopoldo Gout	Producer
Craig Herring	Editor
Kara Holden	Screenwriter
James Patterson	Executive Producer
Robert Kessel	Executive Producer
Julio Macat	Cinematographer
Jeanne McCarthy	Casting
Jay Meagher	Sound Mixer
Olivia Miles	Costumes/Costume Designer
Borja Montoro	Animator
Pablo Navarro	Animator
Hubbel Palmer	Screenwriter
Bill Robinson	Producer
Chris Sauve	Animator
Marty Eli Schwartz	Asst. Director
Jeff Skoll	Executive Producer

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
1. Chapter 1
2. Chapter 2
3. Chapter 3
4. Chapter 4
5. Chapter 5
6. Chapter 6
7. Chapter 7
8. Chapter 8
9. Chapter 9
10. Chapter 10
11. Chapter 11
12. Chapter 12

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Editorial Reviews

Middle schooler Rafe Khatchadorian (Griffin Gluck) is a bright kid and an exceptionally talented cartoonist, but lately, he's been getting more support from his sketchbook than from any of the adults around him. His professional-chef mom (Lauren Graham) also values creativity, but she's too harried to meet Rafe's needs. His meathead stepdad-to-be (Rob Riggle) sees Rafe and his little sister Georgia (Alexa Nisenson) as obstacles to fully enjoying his sports car. Worst of all, Rafe's compulsion to doodle has gotten him expelled. Now he's been plunked into another school in the middle of the year, where he's subjected to abuse from petty tyrant Principal Dwight (Andrew Daly), battle-axe Vice Principal Stricker (Retta), and the snotty little bully seated behind him in homeroom (Jacob Hopkins). His crush on smart, pretty nerd Jeanne (Isabela Moner) provides a brief flare of hope in his otherwise dismal existence, but when Principal Dwight punishes the infraction of a minor rule by destroying Rafe's sketchbook-cum-lifeline to sanity, our boy cracks. The principal loves the all-powerful Rule Book? Fine, then Rafe and his best pal Leo (Thomas Barbusca) are going to break every rule in the book, one by one, in the most creative, colossal, magnificent way they can. Parents who have seen this movie's pratfall-laden trailer might be thinking: Should I pop a few Benadryl before schlepping the clamoring nose-pickers to another dreadful "family" film, so I can catnap in the theater? Or should I go straight to the hard stuff and hope an Ambien knocks me out until it's over? Don't bother: Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life is wonderful, a nectarous confection of anarchic wish fulfillment clothed in the trickster skin of an afterschool special. If something long buried in every adult's heart doesn't rouse to life when Rafe rightfully observes, "I'm learning more breaking the rules than preparing for some dumb test," as he's dissecting the electronic guts of the school's intercom, then maybe it's worth reviewing how novelist and science writer Grant Allen said it first, and best: "Never let school interfere with your education." The cast are absolutely terrific. Lauren Graham is just as loveable here as she was on Gilmore Girls, Rob Riggle is brilliantly funny as every kid's nightmare of a man-child stepparent, and newcomer Alexa Nisenson has a delightfully hoarse voice and a sincere emotional range. The cherry on top of this nose-thumbing delight are the animated sequences expressing Rafe's internal state via his drawings come to life, which were done by Pasadena's Duncan Studio in a dry-brush, cel-animated style that recalls 101 Dalmatians in both style and quality. This fantastic hybrid of High School Musical and Over the Edge is destined to become a cult classic for Generation Z in the same way that Heathers and Ferris Bueller's Day Off were for Generation X. Their parents might dig it, too.

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