Three O'Clock High is a 1987 high-school comedy film, directed by Phil Joanou, written by Richard Christian Matheson and Thomas Szollosi; the executive producer was Aaron Spelling. The plot concerns a student (Casey Siemaszko) who accidentally offends a bully (Richard Tyson) and who devotes most of his school day to avoiding a fistfight with the bully at 3:00 p.m.
Unusual photography, camera angles, zooms and closeups characterize the film, along with slow motion sequences.
The movie was filmed at Ogden High School in Ogden, Utah, but was based, in part, on Matheson and Szollosi's own high school experiences in California. Critical reception was mixed and the film did not do well at the box office; but on home video it has become something of a minor cult classic.