Teddy Walker is a successful salesman whose life takes an unexpected turn when he accidentally blows up his place of employment. Forced to attend night school to get his GED, Teddy soon finds himself dealing with a group of misfit students, his former high school nemesis and a feisty teacher who doesn't think he's too bright.
After enduring extreme humiliation at school, Polish teen Dominik holes himself up in his room and begins spending all his time in a virtual reality chat room.
After being thrown away from home, pregnant high school dropout Maria meets Matthew, a highly educated and extremely moody electronics repairman. The two begin an unusual romance built on their sense of mutual admiration and trust.
An eighteen year old high school drop out and his twenty-seven year old friend start trafficking marijuana across the border of Canada in order to make money and their lives are changed forever.
Angela and Jessie are two best friends in love intent on taking a birthday beach trip, but when Jessie's brother loses all his rent money in a drug scam, the girls—blissfully stoned—go to increasingly daring and absurd lengths to get enough money to survive.
In this entry in the MGM "Crime Does Not Pay" series young Frank Davis, dropping out of school and joining a small-time hoodlum gang, finds out that leading a life of crime is not all he thought it would be.
Indianapolis has one of the lowest high school graduation rates in the country. Night School follows three adult students living in the city’s more impoverished neighborhoods as they attempt to earn their diplomas while juggling other difficult responsibilities and realities. Through their stories, the filmmakers explore many issues that low-income Americans deal with, including unjust minimum wage and working conditions, arbitrary legal hindrances, and race and gender inequality.
Scott, a high school dropout, has no diploma, no job, no future and finally no girl. He is faced with the decision of continuing his education or continuing a life without hope or meaning.
A '2x1' high school teacher's infidelity will transform into a hurricane, threatening to destroy his marriage, separate his family, jeopardize his work and all who have believed in him.
Teodore is in his thirties and has ADHD. He decides to finish high school in a multiethnic school for adults. In parallel with his hectic student life, where he meets a charming and somewhat anxious special education teacher, Teodore is thrust into the reality of sharing an apartment with Habib, an Egyptian who is as generous as he is messy.
