BeDiz

The scene I vividly remember is when the kids are playing dodgeball, and when the detention center bully turns to try and dodge the ball his face hits a concrete pillar and he breaks his nose and his face is bloody, and holding his hands up to his face he says, "I think I broke my nose". Also, I am pretty sure the main character is wrongfully accused of a theft at the beginning of the movie.

TGM

3 oclock high?

Spiderbite

Bad Boys (1983)? - haven't seen this in many, many years so I can't speak to it whether it has that scene or something similar, but it is heavy on juvenile delinquents and a detention center.

The line "I think I broke my nose (or you broke my nose)" is used by Matt Dillion in My Bodyguard (1980) which is about delinquent teens but not a juvenile detention center. He holds his bloody hands up to his bloody face while saying the line.

BeDiz

Thanks for the quick replies. I am going to skim through Bad Boys again just to be sure, I remember the bully looks similar to the bully in Bad Boys (boom box blows up next to his head), but I am pretty sure it is not any of the movies mentioned. I'll IMDB that actor just in case it's him. The movie in question has the guy getting his nose broke by accidentally slamming his face into a pillar in the middle of the gym room/cafeteria trying to avoid getting hit by the dodgeball. So, in essence, he breaks his own nose. So the line is probably "I think I broke my nose"

Again, Thanks all. It's been bugging me since the late 80's :-)

mickey65

Its not from Bad Boys. Clancy Brown is in it and his nose was broke when Sean Penn hit him in the face with a pillow case filled with full some soda cans in it.