Product Details

• Actors: Jason Biggs, Eva Longoria Parker, Rob Corddry, Monica Potter
• Directors: Mark Lafferty
• Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Anchor Bay Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: December 2, 2008
• Run Time: 97 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001FU793K
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #125,994 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Welcome to Geraldine Ferraro Elementary, where the teachers are drunk, lazy or psychotic, every child has been left behind, and burned-out Vice Principal Tom Willoman (Jason Biggs) is barely holding on. But when totally hot district inspector Rebecca Seabrook (DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES’ Eva Longoria Parker) arrives to shut down the school, she and Tom hatch a plan to take back the classrooms from insanely corrupt Principal Billings (Rob Corddry of THE DAILY SHOW). What tragedy in Willoman’s past has turned him into a complete wuss? When are Nyquil shots and boxing matches considered proper teaching tools? How much damage can be inflicted by a bunch of pissed-off 2nd graders? Monica Potter (BOSTON LEGAL), and Will Sasso (MAD TV) co-star in this twisted comedy about the perils of public education and the higher calling to LOWER LEARNING.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Horrible or Darkly Funny?, June 23, 2009

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M "CultOfStrawberry" (I wait behind the wall, gnawing away at your reality) - See all my reviews
(TOP 500 REVIEWER)   

This review is from: Lower Learning (DVD)

To be honest, I'm not even sure. Part of me wants to give it five stars for the funny bits in it - the kids cussing at the teachers and the positive lesson that the VP learned (to care for kids and all) and the sheer offensiveness of it - and then I want to give it a one star because of that very same sheer offensiveness in there. The positive reviewers are right to like it, the negative reviewers are right to hate it, so I'll give it a 50/50 rating and give it three out of five stars. I can tell you, it's probably not what you would expect.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Elementary School and Rated R. Interesting Mix?, December 6, 2010

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movementrec - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lower Learning (DVD)

This movie is rated R and takes place at an elementary school so have that in mind while watching. It does take it to the next level and has many scenarios that you would never want to happen at your kid's elementary school, but that's what makes it so funny. Many times comedies are supposed to change it up and take it to the next level. Starring Jason Biggs, who has never had a problem being in comedies with absurd and crude qualities (ex: the american pies) delivers in this movie. Eva Longoria, is quite hilarious in this too. Yes, very attractive too but if you have seen her in Desperate Housewives you already know that she can deliver when it comes to comedy. Then you have the villain.............Rob Corddry. I'd say he steals the movie. If you haven't seen him before he's always a comedic mastermind. Hot Tub Time Machine would not have been the same without his overthetop character. And anything with kids doing something vulgar has always made me laugh.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Strong comedy as always - thanks to Corddry and his improv cohorts., January 18, 2009

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Matt (Denver, NC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lower Learning (DVD)

Lower Learning is surprisingly funny at times... it feels like one big improv skit (And the deleted scenes seem to attest to that theory, as 35+ jokes are thrown out there, and only the best 5 are used), and for this movie, it mostly works. The cast is tremendous, I didn't expect to see so many familiar faces, and most are well-known for their roles in movies like this. The stand out for me, in a field of all of these other comic actors is Monica Potter. She is relatively unknown to me, other than a few movies she has been in, and she manages to deliver some of the funniest lines as a down on her luck teacher who is going through a bad marriage. Much of the comedy of Lower Learning is based on kids "saying the darndest things", but not all of it. The plot of the story is basically Jason Biggs vs. Rob Corddry in a fight to save a struggling school. Also surprising is some of the stuff Longoria gets to do. She has a running gag as a troubled woman who inhales paint fumes, Cool whip can fumes, chews tobacco, drinks whiskey, abuses pain pills and more. When confronted about her issues, she becomes defensive and asks: "What is this Nuremberg?", "What is this Salem"? She actually had some funny lines here, I'll give her credit for that.