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The Joy of Positivity: Rock N' Roll High School (1979)

The Joy of Positivity: Rock N' Roll High School (1979)

The Ramone were not good actors but that didn't keep this from being a punk rock Hard Day's Night

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Roger Corman took a gander at the box-office grosses for Saturday Night Fever and decided that he should make a teen comedy about the trendy world of discos. Corman’s younger, more tuned in employees convinced the legendary opportunists that you simply could not blow up a high school to disco music.

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