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Synopsis: A group of college debaters learn about the world, friendships, love, dreams and family in this warm, endearing drama.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): Douglas Day Stewart
Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  1 win & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.3
PG-13
Year:
1989
107 min
248 Views


but it's still

a long, long way

from your league, believe me.

Oh, is that what you mean by

"home-spun candor"?

To me, it sounded like

good old false modesty.

You came here to

knock me off my pedestal,

didn't you, country boy?

(LAUGHS)

All right.

All right.

SCHWIMMER:

If at UCLA or Notre-Dame

the hero of the hour

is the football coach,

our hero is a man

most of you know

simply as Charlie.

I give you

the winningest debater

in collegiate history,

the man who has

coached Kenmont

to seven conference titles

in 12 years,

Professor Charlie Nichols.

(ALL CHEERING)

Whoa!

TUCKER:
Coming through.

Excuse me.

Sorry.

Hi. Sorry, I'm late.

Atilla made me stay and

clean the meat locker.

Tucker Muldowney, Donna Lumis.

-Hey, how you doin'?

-Nice to meet you.

(AUDIENCE HOOTING)

Well, it's nice to be loved.

(AUDIENCE CHEERING)

And I should like to warn you.

A debate, as practice here,

is rougher than football.

-CROWD:
Ooh!

-Meaner than ice hockey.

CROWD:
Yeah!

Much more strenuous

than wrestling.

(CROWD LAUGHING)

And because women

can play at it

(AUDIENCE CHEERING)

just as down and dirty

as the men,

(AUDIENCE CHEERING)

it's probably the scariest,

most fascinating sport

on the face of the planet.

-(CROWD CHEERING)

-Let's debate.

(AUDIENCE HOOTING)

Resolved. That sex education

should not be taught

in our public schools.

-(FEW PEOPLE CHEERING)

-Resolved!

That condoms

should never be sold

on our high school

and college campuses.

-(PEOPLE BOOING)

-(SCATTERED APPLAUSE)

Resolved. That abstinence

is the best way to avoid AIDS.

(CROWD CHEERING)

The affirmative will prove

that the institution

best suited to educating

our nation's youth about sex

is the family.

(CROWD BOOING)

And when the schools attempt

to meddle in these matters,

they are, in fact,

promoting promiscuity

and undermining the values

of our nation.

(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)

I hate this school.

It's a bunch of Cretans

and Neanderthals and b*obs.

These have the special

reservoir tip.

Who am I talking to?

Why am I even talking to you?

Hey. Hey, now, watch this.

McKellar is the best.

Personally, I think

he's even better than

Lloynd and Shields

from Harvard.

So let me understand

your position.

(CLEARS THROAT)

Are you telling us

that high school

and college students

should abstain

from having sex?

SUSAN:
Yes.

-(CROWD BOOING)

-(GARSON CHUCKLES)

So when the hormones

start throbbing

and some young adolescent

starts feeling, uh...

-Horny!

-(ALL LAUGHING)

Okay, horny!

What're you suggesting

they do, Susan?

What do you mean?

Choke the chicken,

slap the dolphin,

bleed the lizards,

-(CROWD CHEERING)

-spank the monkey!

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Douglas Day Stewart

Douglas Day Stewart is an American screenwriter and film director. He graduated from Claremont McKenna College. more…

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