The Chocolate War

IMDb link: 0094869
IMDb rating: 6.6 (2,635 votes)
Genres: Drama
Director: Keith Gordon
Cast: John Glover, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Doug Hutchison, Wallace Langham and others

Release date: 18 Nov 1988
Release year: 1988
Runtime: 104 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: boy, chocolate, teenage boy, teacher student relationship, schoolboy, peer pressure, classroom, based on novel, food in title, teenage protagonist

Plot:

New boy at strict Catholic High School, Jerry Renault, is bullied into selling boxes of chocolates for the school's annual fund-raising event. The sadistic headmaster, Brother Leon, and 'The Vigils', a viscious gang of school thugs, make Jerry's life hell when he decides he won't be pushed around anymore.

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