The Hall Monitor would be an action-comedy satire of the buddy-cop genre, played straight and serious. Alex Duncan is a hall monitor in his school, a job he takes far too seriously. It is his job to make sure that there's no running. litter or otherwise breaking the rules, however when an unknown student threatens to ruin the prom, Alex Duncan takes it upon himself to investigate and stop the saboteur, with the aid of his bumbling partner Tom, who is far more inexperienced and doesn't take his job too seriously, and just sees it as a way to get extra credit.
The movie starts off with a chase scene between Alex and Tom, who are tracking down someone who is walking the school without his hall pass, to get the audience laughing and interested. Then they are called into the head teachers office, who says that actively chasing the students is not the correct way to deal with rule breakers, and that they should instead report to a teacher.
A secretary comes in with a series of posters saying "I will ruin the prom", Alex sees these and without the head teacher knowing, takes it upon himself to track down the information required to find out who did it, in a classic cop/detective style, trying to get leads from different students.
Eventually he finds out what student planned on doing it and with the help of Tom brings him to justice (the head teachers office) while the prom goes on, in addition to this a girl in Alex's class is trying to win over his affections, but he is too blind to see it due to being too involved with his monitor duty.
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