Lisa Kennedy The upstate New York high schoolers at the heart of “Middletown” hint at what the Breakfast Club crew might have been had they shared a purpose beyond sulky rebellion.
In 1991, teacher Fred Isseks created a way for his students to channel both their curiosity and their rightly contrarian impulses in an elective called Electronic English.
For the next several years, the students who opted for that class made videos, shot horror shorts and, most significantly, embarked on a project about the local landfill that would become a sharp and heralded piece of investigative journalism.
Altogether, classes from 1991 to ’97 made four films. The final was the hour-long “Garbage, Gangsters and Greed.” Political malfeasance, press acquiescence, the Ford Motor Co.
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