Old Time Rock and Roll the 1983 film "Risky Business", starring Tom Cruise. Cruise's character, Joel Goodson, famously lip-syncs and dances in his underwear as this song plays after his parents leave him home alone. In 1986, the song was also featured in the TV series ""ALF"", in a caricature of the before mentioned Tom cruise scene, in which Alf has similarly been left home alone and trashed the house. Activision created a series of "" television commercials directed by Brett Ratner based on the scene, each featuring a different set of celebrities lip-sync to the lyrics while using the new instrument controllers. The first
Rock 'n' Roll High School soundtrack album. The original Ed Stasium mixes were not issued until the 1988 compilation album "Ramones Mania" and the 1999 compilation album "", respectively. Other songs appearing in the film include: As well as the following songs by the Ramones: "Rock 'n' Roll High School" received generally positive reviews and has a 80% rating at Rotten Tomatoes based onreviews from 24 film critics. "Rock 'n' Roll High School" did well enough that Arkush and Whitley followed it up with a sequel, "Rock 'n' Roll High School Forever" in 1991. On July 31, 2008, it was announced that actor/writer Alex Winter