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Release Date: 1989

Cast: Alan North, Karen Malina White, Jermaine 'Huggy' Hopkins, Morgan Freeman, Sandra Reaves-Phillips, Robin Bartlett, Ethan Phillips, Regina Taylor, Michael Beach, Sloane Shelton, Beverly Todd, Robert Guillaume ...MORE

Cast: Alan North, Karen Malina White, Jermaine 'Huggy' Hopkins, Morgan Freeman, Sandra Reaves-Phillips, Robin Bartlett, Ethan Phillips, Regina Taylor, Michael Beach, Sloane Shelton, Beverly Todd, Robert Guillaume, Lynne Thigpen ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Biography, Action, Docudrama, Biographical Film, Drama Film, Biopic [Feature], Coming Of Age

Lean on Me is a 1989 dramatized biographical film written by Michael Schiffer, directed by John G. Avildsen and starring Morgan Freeman. Lean on Me is loosely based on the story of Joe Louis Clark, a real life inner city high school principal in Paterson, New Jersey, whose school is at risk of being taken over by the New Jersey state government unless students improve their test scores. This film's title refers to the 1972 Bill Withers song of the same name. Clark resigned as principal of Eastside High School the year after this film was released to become an author and motivational... MORE

Lean on Me is a 1989 dramatized biographical film written by Michael Schiffer, directed by John G. Avildsen and starring Morgan Freeman. Lean on Me is loosely based on the story of Joe Louis Clark, a real life inner city high school principal in Paterson, New Jersey, whose school is at risk of being taken over by the New Jersey state government unless students improve their test scores. This film's title refers to the 1972 Bill Withers song of the same name. Clark resigned as principal of Eastside High School the year after this film was released to become an author and motivational speaker. In August 1995, he was hired to run a juvenile detention center in Newark, New Jersey. Parts of the film, including the elementary school scenes, were filmed in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey. In 1987, Eastside High School in Paterson, New Jersey, is plagued with numerous problems, especially drugs and gang violence. Furthermore, the students scored poorly on the state's test of minimum basic skills. During the opening credits sequence, after a teacher is brutally beaten for trying to break up a fight and the state legislature has recently passed a law proclaiming that schools that cannot meet LESS