Up the Academy

June. 06,1980 R

Rating：

4.7

Genre：

Comedy

Keywords：

Military Academy

Trailer Synopsis Cast

Four boys are sent, for different reasons, to a Military Academy. The life of discipline asks a lot of the four geeks. Of course these boys know how to make a party out of the hard times. Will they be "real men" after one year.

Ralph Macchio as Chooch Bombalazzi

Hutch Parker as Oliver Holt (as J. Hutchison)

Tom Poston as Sgt. Skip Sisson

Antonio Fargas as Coach

Stacey Nelkin as Candy

Barbara Bach as Bliss

Robert Downey Jr. as Boy on Soccer Team (uncredited)

Ron Leibman as Major Vaughn Liceman (uncredited)

Ian Wolfe as Commandant Causeway

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