Lean on Me with Morgan Freeman: DVD Cover

    Lean on Me Director: John G. Avildsen Cast: Morgan Freeman, Robert Guillaume, Beverly Todd, Lynne Thigpen

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    • DVD Release Date: 10/20/1998
    • Original Release: 1989
    • Rating: Rated PG13
    • Sales Rank: 17,210

    Viewer Rating: (4 ratings)

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    Scene Index

    Side #1 --
    0. Jump to a Scene
    1. 1967 Prologue [5:04]
    2. Credits (Welcome to the Jungle) [5:02]
    3. What are they doing down there? [1:52]
    4. Some truth [1:53]
    5. "My word is law" [4:04]
    6. "You are all expurgated" [5:16]
    7. The new Eastside High [2:40]
    8. God's Words to Joe [3:29]
    9. Thomas Sams' plea [3:59]
    10. Cafeteria choas [4:26]
    11. Discordant music [2:19]
    12. The way he likes it [2:01]
    13. A lockup (I Ain't Makin' It) [3:28]
    14. Keneesha's problem [5:49]
    15. Clark and Napier square off [3:51]
    16. Call me Batman [1:33]
    17. Kid Ray moves on [1:14]
    18. Songbirds in the boys room [5:58]
    19. Talking tough to the faculty [3:10]
    20. Tooling for the test [3:54]
    21. Paterson politics [3:05]
    22. At the ready [3:28]
    23. Levias confronts Clark [2:37]
    24. Not inferior [3:44]
    25. Lean on Me #1 [3:17]
    26. Lean on Me #2 [:49]
    27. Keneesha's setback [2:38]
    28. Under arrest [3:28]
    29. In an uproar [3:44]
    30. Like a father [2:22]
    31. The test scores [4:22]
    32. Graduation End Credits (Lean on Me) [3:36]

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    After earning rave notices for powerful supporting turns as a pimp in Street Smart (1987) and an alcohol abuse counselor in Clean and Sober (1988), actor Morgan Freeman began his ascent to stardom with this, his first lead role in a major motion picture. Freeman is real-life high school principal Joe Clark, a tough, harsh educator and administrator who in 1987 is given a nearly impossible task by his old friend, school superintendent Dr. Frank Napier (Robert Guillaume). Clark is asked to reform inner city Eastside High School in Paterson, NJ, a hotbed of delinquent kids and drug dealers. Considered the worst school in New Jersey, the state is threatening to take control of Eastside away from the local school board. If Clark can straighten out Eastside in time to get the school's basic-skills test scores up, he can have the job permanently. Although Clark's tyrannical approach and hard-line policies alienate many members of the staff and the community, his uncompromising campaign gets results and even makes him famous, much to the chagrin of his powerful enemies. Karl Williams, All Movie Guide

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    June 07, 2003: Absolutely beautiful picture. Very uplifting acting by Morgan Freeman. Actually, to tell you the truth, Morgan's role as Joe Clark should have been on the AFI Top 50 heroes. Oh well...politics through AFI have left me angry. Also, my observation is that Morgan should have been nominated for Academy Award for best actor. He can't win it because he can't defeat Daniel Day Lewis's work in My Left Foot, no way or how. Morgan also in the film achieved a breakthrough and had himself lept to stardom through better and more powerful films such as Driving Miss Daisy and Shawshank Redemption. There is no denying the fact that Morgan Freeman has claimed himself as one of the most great African American actors ever to appear on a silver screen. This movie is definitely a Rocky type movie, ironically made by John G Avildson who also made Rocky. Well done and high praise for allowing this movie to be produced and show others that people can change, no matter how hopeless the situation looks.

    This review was written about the VHS edition.