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- Rated: PG-13
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 49 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 6, 1998
- Originally Released: 1989
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Morgan Freeman, Beverly Todd & Robert Guillaume | |
Performer: | Alan North & Lynne Thigpen | |
Directed by | John G. Avildsen |
Entertainment Reviews:
Avildsen's enthusiastic direction gives Lean on Me a heartwarming, feel-good tone that is accessible beyond the environs of its subject.
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Variety
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Lean on Me is not a documentary about the real Joe Clark. It is a fiction film about a character who is so troubled, obsessed and angry that the film is never able to say quite what it thinks of him. After the movie, neither are we.
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Chicago Sun-Times
...[Freeman gives] a fiery and compelling performance...[that] humanizes Joe Clark...
New York Times
Rating: 3/5 --
Inspirational movie about a controversial teacher.
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Common Sense Media
...Coolly photographed....[Freeman] gives a tough, taut performance...
USA Today
...Freeman embodies all the purported strengths of the real-life Clark and gives an uncompromising [performance]....Avildsen knows how to pull the right strings...
Variety
...[Freeman] has a seemingly limitless range, quicksilver modulation, surprise, a dry humor and a watchful intelligence...
Los Angeles Times
Product Description:
Based on actual events, director John G. Avildsen's LEAN ON ME tells the story of Joe Clark (Morgan Freeman), a tough and radical disciplinarian hired to save the worst school in Paterson, New Jersey. Eastside High School is in trouble--the once exemplary school is now failing miserably. Graffitti lines the halls, gangs and drugs rule the school, and teachers and students live in perpetual fear. In one school year, Clark is challenged to turn the snake pit of a school into a halfway civilized place of learning, populated by decent students. To make sure his students pass a basic proficiency exam, Clark resorts to what some believe to be questionable methods--including wandering the halls threateningly with a baseball bat--to restore order to his school. Clark's extreme tactics also include firing teachers for talking back, forcing students to sing the school song on demand, and locking out students known to be drug dealers. Freeman delivers an astonishing performance as the tough-as-nails principal who became a national hero and symbol for tough-love education.
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- Sales Rank: 19,860
- UPC: 883929104789
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