My Old School

2022

Action / Animation / Comedy / Documentary / Drama

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 92% · 98 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 74% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.1/10 10 1862 1.9K

Plot summary

In 1993, 16-year-old Brandon Lee enrolled at Bearsden Academy, a secondary school in a well-to-do suburb of Glasgow, Scotland. What followed over the next two years would become the stuff of legend.

Director

Jono McLeod Photo
Jono McLeod

Top cast

Alan Cumming Photo
Alan Cumming as Brandon
Brandon Lee Photo
Brandon Lee as Self
Gary Lamont Photo
Gary Lamont as Mr MacKinnon
Lulu Photo
Lulu as Mrs Holmes
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1002.35 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 49 min
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2.01 GB
1920*1080
English 5.1
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 49 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by tomoedinburgh-10136 7 / 10

Entertaining and intriguing yet a missed opportunity

That the film maker was a former school mate of this outrageous fraudster gives it its charm and sense of fun, its best parts come from this past and yet it is the source of its weak points. Jono the film maker lazily settles with ''it was a laugh'' ''Oh I was completely taken in, omg''. The viewers would say ''Didn't you wanna do some more digging? We have got more than we want to know about his, Bearden? School days, but how did he manage at Dundee University after successfully duping everyone at school? Did he fool medic students up until he didn't? How did he get caught in the end?Dundee is only 90 min drive away from Glasgow. Why didn't you go and interview his tutors at the medical school or his university friends, for example, yes, his nemesis Cheryl? Also, a decade previously he allegedly failed at Glasgow medical school. Was he dumb? Then his whole pursuit of medical career seems risible, or was he simply unlucky? Come on, Glasgow University must be a few bus stops away from you, Jono. How it didn't interest you to know more about Brian McKinnon the man, your friend and neighbour, instead of settling down with ''Brandon Lee' what a laugh he was''? The film maker is lacking in curiosity.
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Reviewed by Minnesota_Reid 8 / 10

If at first you don't succeed....

This is a very fun and fair documentary about an interesting case, a real-life 'Never Been Kissed'. The story is told cleverly, revealing new twists and angles to things you were told earlier in the movie. Since the main subject agreed only to an oral interview, the filmmaker hired the brilliant Alan Cummings to provide a face to lip-synch the words of the main subject --- so well done you don't even notice that it is lip-synching.

Recommended.

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