Class Reunion
Class reunions in film and literature
In film and literature, especially crime novels, thrillers and psychological suspense novels, class reunions have been a frequent device used to show the eruption of emotions such as shame, hatred or guilt within individual characters who, suddenly faced again with their own youth, become aware of the fact that they have been unable to cope with their past. In many cases, those who used to be bullied, humiliated or in any other way mistreated by their teachers and/or classmates believe that now their chance has come to take revenge on their former torturers.
Another staple of this kind of fiction is former classmates taking up with their old flame again, either because they have changed to their advantage and developed into an admirable adult or precisely for the opposite reason—because they have not changed at all in a fleeting world.
Examples of fiction revolving around class reunions are Tim O'Brien's July, July (2002), Paul Reizin's Fiends Reunited (2004), and Ben Elton's Past Mortem of the same year. Films include Kenneth Branagh's Peter's Friends (1992), George Armitage's Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), and the far more trivial movie Since You've Been Gone (1998), directed by David Schwimmer.
Class Reunion
Notable books, films and television shows actually entitled Class Reunion include:
a 1928 novel by Franz Werfel
(original German title: Der
Abituriententag) — see
Class Reunion (1928 novel);
a 1972 U.S. softcore pornographic
movie by Stephen C. Apostolof
— see Class Reunion (1972
film);
a 1979 novel by Rona Jaffe
— see Class Reunion (1979
novel);
a 1982 U.S. comedy thriller
(aka National Lampoon's Class
Reunion) written by John Hughes
and directed by Michael Miller
about alumni at a tenth-year
class reunion being killed
one after the other by one
of their former classmates
— see National Lampoon's
Class Reunion;
a 1997 novel by Linda Hill
— see Class Reunion (1997
novel);
Sjezd abiturientu (Class Reunion),
a 2000 Czech made-for-TV movie
by Viktor Polesný based
on Werfel's novel;
Madea's Class Reunion, a 2003
U.S. teleplay directed, written,
and played by Tyler Perry;
a 2005 novel by George W. Hess
— see Class Reunion (2005
novel); and
an Irish television show —
see Class Reunion (television
show).
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