Here's an older movie for you. The 1981 drama Taps.-
It's about a group of students at a military academy who take up arms and get into a stand-off with the police when their academy is threatened with closing to make room for condos.
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Timothy Hutton is excellent as the ranking cadet leading the students and George C. Scott and Ronny Cox are good too. But they are not the reason to watch this movie.
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This movie basically launched the careers of Tom Cruise and Sean Penn. They didn't even get their names on the original movie poster (the studio changed that once they got famous).
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But their roles in Taps are opposite of their typical roles later in the 80s. Sean Penn, who I remember as Spicoli or a tough delinquent in Bad Boys, is the straight-A-getting book worm. And Tom Cruise plays the gung-ho, trigger-happy tough kid - quite a change from the spoiled rich kid from Risky Business.
If you remember Penn and Cruise from their typical 80s roles this movie should give you a nice chuckle at the ironic casting. Oh, and it happens to be a pretty decent movie otherwise, too.
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