Lean On Me

Eastside High was out of control...until Joe Clark took it back.

Lean On Me (1989)

Timing: 1:48 (108 min)

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Release date

1989-03-03

Country

United States

Production

Warner Bros. Pictures, Norman Twain Productions

Genre

Drama

Budget

$10 000 000

Revenue

$31 906 454

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Director

John G. Avildsen

Actors

Morgan Freeman, Beverly Todd, Robert Guillaume, Ethan Phillips, Lynne Thigpen, Michael Beach, Tony Todd, Karen Malina White, Alan North, Robin Bartlett
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Scenario

Michael Schiffer

Producer

Norman Twain, John G. Avildsen

Operator

Victor Hammer

Composer

Bill Conti

Artist

Audition

Editing

John G. Avildsen
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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.

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