Lean On Me
- Released on
- Runtime
- 108 mins
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.
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.
Cast
- Morgan Freeman
- Beverly Todd
- Robert Guillaume
- Ethan Phillips
- Lynne Thigpen
- Michael Beach
- Tony Todd
- Karen Malina White
- Alan North
- Robin Bartlett
- Sandra Reaves-Phillips
- Sloane Shelton
- Jermaine Hopkins
- Karina Arroyave
- Ivonne Coll
- Regina Taylor
- Michael P. Moran
- John Ring
- Mike Starr
- Michael Imperioli
- Jennifer McComb
- Delilah Cotto
- Anthony Figueroa
- Jim Moody
- Johanna Tolentino
- Markus Toure Boddie
Director
- John G. Avildsen
Producers
- Norman Twain
