Lean On Me
7.3/10
Rating
108 min
Runtime
1989
Release Year
John G. Avildsen
Director
Cast
Morgan Freeman, Beverly Todd, Robert Guillaume, Ethan Phillips, Lynne Thigpen
Quick Synopsis
Joe Clark becomes the principal of Eastside High School, a school struggling with gang activity and vandalism. He confronts challenges like students displaying gang colors and walls covered in graffiti. To improve the school, he expels students suspected of dealing drugs, locks certain doors to control access, and insists that students, teachers, and parents all commit to improving performance. Known for his strict and authoritarian approach, Clark takes significant risks to try to turn the school around, based on his real-life experience as an educator.
Detailed Synopsis of Lean On Me
When principal Joe Clark takes over decaying Eastside High School, he's faced with students wearing gang colors and graffiti-covered walls. Determined to do anything he must to turn the school around, he expels suspected drug dealers, padlocks doors and demands effort and results from students, staff and parents. Autocratic to a fault, this real-life educator put it all on the line.
