4.3
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Senior Trip (1981)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Viewer Rating
Rating: 4.3
Overview
A group of graduating students from a midwestern high school comes to New York City on a trip to celebrate the impending end of school. The students include: Roger Ellis, an ambitious teen aiming for success in big business; David, an aspiring rock star; Judy Matheson, a stagestruck coed actress wannabe; Denise, a free-spirited girl hoping to obtain a degree of sophistication; Fred, a lotharo looking for any Big City woman to be with; and Jon Lipton, a would-be artist hoping to make it big. Mickey Rooney also appears briefly as himself during the backstage scene at the musical "Sugar Babies."
Starring Cast
Bias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
Overview
A group of graduating students from a midwestern high school comes to New York City on a trip to celebrate the impending end of school. The students include: Roger Ellis, an ambitious teen aiming for success in big business; David, an aspiring rock star; Judy Matheson, a stagestruck coed actress wannabe; Denise, a free-spirited girl hoping to obtain a degree of sophistication; Fred, a lotharo looking for any Big City woman to be with; and Jon Lipton, a would-be artist hoping to make it big. Mickey Rooney also appears briefly as himself during the backstage scene at the musical "Sugar Babies."
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
The film is a lighthearted teen comedy focused on youthful rebellion and comedic chaos against generic authority figures, without engaging with specific political ideologies or promoting a particular agenda.
The movie features a visibly diverse cast, reflecting typical representation for its era, without explicitly recasting traditional roles. Its narrative is a straightforward teen comedy that does not engage in critical portrayals of traditional identities or center explicit DEI themes.
Secondary
The film 'Senior Trip' (1995) is a comedy primarily focused on the misadventures of high school students on a trip to Washington D.C. It does not include any discernible LGBTQ+ characters or themes, thus rendering the portrayal N/A.
The film 'Senior Trip' (1981) does not appear to feature any transsexual characters or themes. Publicly available plot details and character lists do not indicate any such portrayals, leading to a determination of N/A for its net impact on transsexual representation.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Senior Trip (1981) is an original television movie, not an adaptation, reboot, or biopic. Therefore, all characters are original to this production, and there are no pre-existing characters from source material or history whose gender could have been swapped.
Senior Trip (1981) is an original television movie, not an adaptation of pre-existing material or a reboot of established characters. Therefore, all characters were created for this specific production, meaning no character could have been canonically or historically established as a different race prior to this film.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
4.5
4.2
Critic Ratings
N/A
N/A
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