Remember not too long ago when a whole spate of movies had plot lines involving either kids taking over a school or engaging in some manner of slapstick battle with armed gunmen in school settings.
Here’s the one that jumped to mind - soon to be censored due to “highly controversial subject matter”:
Plot summary for
Toy Soldiers (1991)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0103112/plotsummary
Billy Tepper is the leader of a group of rebellious guys at The Regis School. He has already been expelled from three prominent private schools. His best friend, Joey Trotta, is the son of the Head of the New York Mafia; Billy, all their friends and many other kids at the school have equally influential and prominent, if more law-abiding, parents. When Luis Cali’s father is put in jail, he heads for the Regis school to put theson of the judge in charge of the case under hostage, only to find he has been removed. However, once he realises who the parents of the rest are, he decides the entire student body of the Regis school would be an even better bargaining chip.
Anybody remember “Detention” with Dolph Lundgren?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083169/
An announcement that the venerable Bunker Hill Military Academy, a 141 year old institute, is to be torn down and replaced with condos sets off the young cadets led by their stodgy commander (George C. Scott). Under the command of a student cadet major (Timothy Hutton), the cadets seize the campus, refuse entry of the construction crews and ultimately confront the real military.
Yes. That was an absurd movie. Here were terrorists willing to kill the kids, but they decided the children really needed to be able to sleep in their own rooms and play outside during the day.
And the kid can sneak out, but the combined military force can’t figure out how to sneak in.
And, keeping with the theme for the day, it had the kid that played “Wesley” from Star Trek, the Next Generation (Will Wheaton). He’s the son of the mob guy, and he gets himself shot up making the mob guy really mad which gets the prisoners all on the government’s side just to get back at the terrorists.
Proving that if you really want to stop the terrorist threat, you should make the mob mad at them.