Lean on Me
The movie follows an arrogant and unorthodox teacher named Joe Clark as he returns as principal to inner city Eastside High School to reform it, a hotbed of delinquent kids and drug dealers.
10 December 1974, Newark, New Jersey, USA
30 October 1963, Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA
8 February 1944, USA
23 December 1944, Mullins, South Carolina, USA
26 March 1966, Mount Vernon, New York, USA
4 December 1954, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
30 November 1927, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
July 29, 2002
calculated to get you cheering -- and it does
April 07, 2004
Is a baseball bat the best way to organize a school? In the movie, sure. In real life, maybe not.
August 01, 2003
Freeman goes for the gusto and pulls it off...
January 02, 2011
Inspirational movie about a controversial teacher.
August 01, 2002
Watchable but formulaic tough-love-teacher movie, made perhaps before Morgan Freeman could get himself better roles.
August 17, 2003
Freeman, as usual, infuses a standard-issue plot with extraordinary emotional conviction.
July 09, 2014
Avildsen's enthusiastic direction gives Lean on Me a heartwarming, feel-good tone that is accessible beyond the environs of its subject.
