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.
28 September 1940, New York, USA
23 December 1944, Mullins, South Carolina, USA
19 August 1973, New York City, New York, USA
28 November 1926, Vienna, Austria
2 November 1946, Chicago, Illinois, USA
11 July 1946, Chicago, Illinois, USA
22 April 1951, New York City, New York, USA
8 February 1944, USA
14 March 1934, Hahira, Georgia, USA
24 September 1970, New York City, New York, USA
December 23, 1944 in Mullins, South Carolina, USA
27 April 1945, Queens, New York, USA
10 December 1974, Newark, New Jersey, USA
30 October 1963, Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA
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.
July 29, 2002
calculated to get you cheering -- and it does
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.
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...
August 17, 2003
Freeman, as usual, infuses a standard-issue plot with extraordinary emotional conviction.
