{"id":1403268,"date":"2018-09-14T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T14:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1403268"},"modified":"2018-09-14T18:10:31","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T22:10:31","slug":"title-night-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/title-night-school\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Night School<\/em> Is This Fall&#8217;s Funniest &#038; Most Relatable Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/nightschooltrailerposttiffanyhaddishkevinhartsparknotes_LargeWide.jpg \" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Universal Picture&#8217;s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nightschoolmovie.com\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Night School<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">starring the comedic dream team of Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish, is a movie for everyone who&#8217;s ever failed at anything\u2014in other words, it&#8217;s for all of us. (Unless you&#8217;re one of those people who&#8217;s never had a panic blackout when staring at a math assignment, in which case you need to leave immediately so that rest of us can <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/thumbs.gfycat.com\/DetailedMarriedIbisbill-size_restricted.gif\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">talk about you behind your back<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The comedy centers around high school dropout Teddy Walker (Kevin Hart), a guy who&#8217;s used to quitting when the going gets tough, and his night school teacher Miss Carrie (Tiffany Haddish), who refuses to let him take the easy way out when it comes to getting his G.E.D. When they meet, it&#8217;s like an immovable,<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NightSchool\/status\/1035572944884391936\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> face-serving<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> object slamming into an unstoppable, 5-foot-tall force, and the result is the funniest movie you&#8217;ll see this year. Their <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/status\/1004075393375227904\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">banter sessions <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are so hilarious that even if the movie was literally just <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/t9QtXGirWf0?t=2m1s\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2 minutes of them talking,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> it would be worth the price of admission\u00e2\u20ac\u201cbut as it happens, all 111 minutes of the film are ridiculously good. Check out the trailer below:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t9QtXGirWf0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Things get off to a rough start for Teddy when he <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/t9QtXGirWf0?t=18s\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">accidentally blows up the barbeque store<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> he works at (hey, it&#8217;s happened to all of us). After his financial analyst pal (played by Ben Schwartz, aka Jean-Ralphio, aka the inspiration behind like<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BnHHTWllppw\/?hl=en&amp;taken-by=sparknotes_\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 30% of our Instagram memes<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) tells him that he can&#8217;t hire a guy who didn&#8217;t graduate 12th grade, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=t9QtXGirWf0\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Teddy decides to go back to his alma mater, Piedmont High, to get his G.E.D.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He meets with the ridiculous principal (whose misguided attempts at swagger are <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/status\/1030548569701240832\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LOL-worthy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) and signs up for night school, thinking that getting his G.E.D will be a breeze. But things don&#8217;t quite turn out that way for Teddy and the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/enHOsYWO4oU?t=28s\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">other misfits<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in his class (one of whom is a convict who <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/status\/1027970333079416833\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Skypes in from prison<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and shanks people in between learning about the pythagorean theorem), because in order to graduate, they&#8217;ve got to pass an absurdly hard test given by an<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/status\/1019400551337869313\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> intimidatingly tough teacher, Miss Carrie.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Miss Carrie is a take-no-sh*t, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NightSchool\/status\/1032326541819052032\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">blouse-wearing bada$$ <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">who may or may not occasionally (and hilariously) <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/status\/1020367743168720896\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">whoop Teddy&#8217;s butt in a boxing ring<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in order to help him memorize facts for the test. (If you don&#8217;t laugh at the scene where <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/lOl-jySoseI?t=1m29s\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">he guesses that Waffles is the capital of Belgium<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, then there might be something wrong with you.) But even though her methods of motivation are, er, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/status\/1009177278461423622\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">unusual<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, she really wants to see Teddy succeed, and the movie combines comedic gold with a surprising amount of heart (and as if that weren&#8217;t enough, there&#8217;s a dance-off at the end. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/lOl-jySoseI?t=1m22s\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A. DANCE. OFF<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The movie hits theaters <strong>September 28<\/strong>, and you better believe that we&#8217;ll be there, posting up to watch with 8 buckets of popcorn. We&#8217;re also going to spend the next 5 months talking only in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NightSchool\/status\/1004075393375227904\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sound effects<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, so prepare yourself for that.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Universal Picture&#8217;s Night School, starring the comedic dream team of Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish, is a movie for everyone who&#8217;s ever failed at anything\u2014in other words, it&#8217;s for all of us. 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