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List Price: $12.98 Our Price: $9.49 You Save: $3.49 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Full Screen • NTSC In Theaters : 03 March, 1989 DVD Release : 20 October, 1998 |
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Lean on Me description Rocky director John Avildsen championed the briefly famous New Jersey high school principal Joe Clark in this upbeat 1989 drama. Morgan Freeman plays the tough-love educator who wields a baseball bat and bullhorn to keep discipline in his hallways and to motivate underachieving students to keep their acts together. After establishing Clark's controversial methods and showing him giving some punks the boot, Avildsen relies on the usual school-drama clichés to fill out the rest of the movie, including a challenge to Clark's philosophy from timid authorities. Freeman makes a strong impact as Clark, his dignity and integrity a sometimes awesome thing. Avildsen, however, is going for a Rocky-esque emotional crescendo. --Tom Keogh |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Great performance by Freeman, simplistic movie... |
| Morgan Freeman gives such an overpowering performance in this film that he alone makes it worth watching. It's not a particularly good film, as everyone else in the film (especially the school administrators) is portrayed as weak, stupid, naive, or easily led. The whole film is set up as Joe Clark is the hero, and anyone who stands in his way is a fool, idiot, or supporter of the old order. I know this is based on a true story, but the film is so night and day in its tone that you know some things are more than likely fabricated. Joe Clark was eventually fired from his job, so he couldn't have been as perfect as he's portrayed here. Still, watching Freeman here is an event in itself. He really makes this film special. John G. Avildsen has to take much of the blame for the simplistic direction. This is one of those films you watch for a great performance, not because the film itself is good. | |
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