This selection of films spans several decades. What's your favorite? Use the form at the bottom of the page to tell us.
Chasing Holden is the classic son sent to boarding school to straighten up kind of movie.
A young Robin Williams gives another superb performance in this classic film about a domineering father and his son who wants to be an actor.
My review of this film is colored very much by my own love of the classics, and, of course, private schools. Kevin Kline is very convincing as Mr. Hundert. While cliches abound, it is still an enjoyable movie with the usual sort of moralizing about cheating and its consequences. The secondary theme of moving with the times is also a powerful one. Headmasters no longer fit the Mr. Chips mold, but need to be fund raisers and CEO's of the vast enterprise which is a private school.
Gus Van Sant and Sean Connery make this inspirational film quite unforgettable.
Mr. Chipping's life is his school and his beloved students. This is the classic version of James Hilton's novel.
Contains three Harry Potter movies: Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone; Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Askaban.
Intrigue at a southern military school. Enough said.
Your basic B movie. Pothead gets sent to private school by daddy in an attempt to straighten him out. Pretty predictable plot. The best thing about this film is Alec Baldwin.
Matt Damon stars in a movie which depicts the way prep schools used to be before diversity became the watchword.
A 21 year old Timothy Hutton is joined by an equally young Sean Penn and screen legend George C. Scott in this campy military school flick.
