ELMHURST, IL — A coming-of-age movie featuring 1980s pop icons was filmed last month at Elmhurst University.
The movie, "The Class," is starring Anthony Michael Hall as the assistant principal and Debbie Gibson as the high school acting teacher. The film also includes teenage stars from shows such as "This is Us," "Julie and the Phantoms" and "Cobra Kai," according to the university.
In the plot, a group of high school seniors are required to spend a Saturday to take an exam they missed or failed, according to the IMDB website. Throughout the day, the students find strong connections among themselves, despite their differences. It's a plot that sounds a lot like the 1985 movie, "The Class," which Hall also starred in.
The IMDB website does not indicate when "The Class" is set to be released.
The writer and director of "The Class" is Nick Celozzi, who grew up in the western suburbs, according to an Elmhurst University news release. He made the decision to film the entire movie at Elmhurst University, the university said.
"I wanted the kids to feel fluid," he told the university. "Walking in a real environment, walking down a school hallway, sitting in a real classroom — there's nothing better to give an actor than surroundings like that."
The production features the work of a dozen of the university's digital media majors, who interned on the set during the monthlong shoot, the release said. Juniors Grace Geschwandner and Ashley Liljeberg worked as the director's assistants.
"The Class" is one of three movies filmed in the last few months at the university. In June, Thriller Films was on campus to shoot the made-for-TV movie, "Web of Deceit," a romantic thriller that cast dozens of Elmhurst residents as extras, according to the university. And in the spring, the indie film, "Rounding," shot in a university-owned house on Prospect Avenue.
The university's news release credited to Kristyn Jo Benedyk, associate professor and director of the university's digital media program, with helping bring the productions to campus.
She said in the university release that the first time she set foot on campus, she knew it would make an ideal movie setting.
"It is exactly what you picture in your mind when you think of a perfect college campus, and I think that when productions go out and location scout, they see that immediately too," she said in the release.
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