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Lean on Me

Director: John G. Avildsen
Actors: Morgan Freeman, Beverly Todd, Robert Guillaume, Alan North, Lynne Thigpen
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

61 reviews
Sales Rank: 3159

Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 104 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.6 x 0.7

MPN: WARD11875D
ISBN: 6305133514
UPC: 085391187523
EAN: 9786305133513
ASIN: 6305133514

Theatrical Release Date: March 3, 1989
Release Date: October 20, 1998
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Condition: Complete with original disc(s), case, and artwork. In stock and ships today!

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Product Description
Morgan freeman triumphs in the exciting true story of joe clark the controversial get-tough educator who turned his downtrodden new jersey school around. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 12/12/2006 Starring: Morgan Freeman Robert Guillaume Run time: 109 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: John G Avildsen

Amazon.com essential video
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 cliches 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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5 out of 5 stars

One of my All-Time FAVORITES! September 22, 2008
pandora80
This movie is full of inspiration! I really liked the no nonsense, "take no prisoners" approach Joe Clark had to getting his school back into shape. What makes THIS movie superior to "Stand and Deliver" is that there's actually drama in this one. It shows just how tough inner city schools can be.

In these types of schools, the biggest problem is generally NOT whether or not they can pass a Calculus test... it's whether they can survive long enough to make it to the end of the school day!

In "Stand and Deliver" I kept waiting for some big event to take place (other than the passing of the test they took), but it never happened. "Lean on Me" was FULL of such scenes! Nonstop action!! Some scenes ARE violent, though, so be careful if there are kids in the room!

5 out of 5 stars

This Movie is a great story and great acting September 9, 2008
June Durkee
A great Movie of how correcting children should be implimented in the schools today. Kids should be tought to respect themselves and others.I would purchase this again.

5 out of 5 stars

"Let me tell you something, the trouble with being a teen-ager is you don't know nothing" July 23, 2008
Daniel Mccay (Louisville, Ky)
This should be in any Morgan Freeman collection of lovers!!! I love this movie. Morgan Freeman, words can not describe him, or his acting, I'm speechless!!!!

5 out of 5 stars

LEAD THEM WITH A BAT AND A BULLHORN! July 21, 2008
! MR. KNOW IT ALL ;-b (TRI STATE AREA)
Another great inspirational "against all odd" school drama. This true story is one of the best of it's kind even though it's been done many times before in 'Blackboard Jungle', 'To Sir With Love' etc. Morgan Freeman is well cast as the no nonsense principal of a school over run with drug dealers and thugs. This is well worth seeing and it's available on a double feature with 'Stand and Deliver' another excellent school drama.

5 out of 5 stars

Lean on Me Video Review April 30, 2008
Nathan Roy
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

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