This is a movie typical of its period in Mexican cinema, in other words, it is a very bad movie. The 1980s were a lost decade for the Mexican movie industry: money went into TV productions or low-quality films, the latter being mostly stories about hookers, or cheap melodramas. Preparatoria falls into the second category.
The main actors, Miguel Angel Ferriz and Laura Flores, were top soap-opera stars at the time. The story line is similarly soap-operatic: a poor boy (Miguel Angel Ferriz) is admitted to a high-society prep school on a scholarship. His classmates make fun of him. He falls in love with the prettiest girl in school (Laura Flores), but she seems out of reach. Not only do the other kids pick on him, so does a mean professor (Aaron Hernan, a good actor whose performance is about the only non-mediocre characteristic of this film). He turns out to be a bad guy all around, sexually harassing the female students, demanding sex for a passing grade.
Not allowed to play with the school's soccer team, he is able to string together a team of misfits, convinces a former professional coach (Pedro Weber) to train them, and challenges the rich kids to a match.
The ending is predictable: the poor boy uncovers the hypocrisy of the rich kids, saves the pretty girl from the mean professor, and thus ends up with her. Oh, and they win the soccer match too.
About the only thing I can say in favor of the producer/director is that his was his first film.
Don't waste your time on this movie. It's not worth it.
The main actors, Miguel Angel Ferriz and Laura Flores, were top soap-opera stars at the time. The story line is similarly soap-operatic: a poor boy (Miguel Angel Ferriz) is admitted to a high-society prep school on a scholarship. His classmates make fun of him. He falls in love with the prettiest girl in school (Laura Flores), but she seems out of reach. Not only do the other kids pick on him, so does a mean professor (Aaron Hernan, a good actor whose performance is about the only non-mediocre characteristic of this film). He turns out to be a bad guy all around, sexually harassing the female students, demanding sex for a passing grade.
Not allowed to play with the school's soccer team, he is able to string together a team of misfits, convinces a former professional coach (Pedro Weber) to train them, and challenges the rich kids to a match.
The ending is predictable: the poor boy uncovers the hypocrisy of the rich kids, saves the pretty girl from the mean professor, and thus ends up with her. Oh, and they win the soccer match too.
About the only thing I can say in favor of the producer/director is that his was his first film.
Don't waste your time on this movie. It's not worth it.
