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Unfortunately, a practice basic skills test fails to garner enough passing students. Clark confronts his staff for their failure to educate their students, and to prepare them for the world. Clark institutes a tutorial program to strengthen academic skills; he also encourages remedial reading courses
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Clark's radicalism brings him into conflict with his own faculty, notably Mr. Darnell, an English teacher, whom Clark suspends for picking up a piece of trash during a recital of the school song and Mrs. Elliot, a music teacher, whom Clark fires for being insubordinate after he cancels a long-planned
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Clark's actions begin to have a positive effect on his students. He encounters Thomas Sams, a young student expelled for crack use, who pleads to be allowed back into school. Clark escorts Sams up to the roof of the school; there he viciously berates the boy for using crack. Nevertheless, Clark gives
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Mayor Bottman learns that the school will be turned over to state administration unless 75% of the students can pass the minimum basic skills test. He consults with school superintendent Dr. Frank Napier, who suggests they hire Joe Clark, a former teacher at Eastside High who was forcibly transferred
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As a result, the school's current administration remains intact. Clark is allowed to keep his job as principal, as he cheerfully informs the mayor that "You can tell the State to go to hell." The students celebrate by breaking into their school song. The film ends with the senior students, including
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The students demand that Clark be released from jail and retained as principal. The mayor has Clark released from jail so that he may urge the children to return home for their own safety. He is interrupted by assistant principal Ms. Joan Levias, who reports that more than 75% of the students have
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When the day for the minimum basic skills test finally arrives, the students are much better prepared and filled with a sense of self-worth. Before the scores can be calculated, the fire chief raids the school and discovers the chained doors. Clark is arrested for violating fire safety codes. That
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Known as "Crazy Joe", Clark's immediate radical changes include expelling 300 students identified as drug dealers or abusers and troublemakers, instituting programs to improve school spirit including painting over graffiti-covered walls, and requiring students to learn the school song, and be
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punished if they cannot sing it on demand. When one of the expelled students is found beating up another student, Clark orders the doors of the school chained shut during school hours since funds are insufficient to purchase security doors.
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Sams one more chance to clean up his act and redeem himself or risk expulsion again. Clark also reunites one of his old elementary school students, Kaneesha Carter, with her estranged mother.
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also set to executive produce. The female-led drama was to center around "when a spirited young black teacher Amarie Baldwin scores the principal job at an
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Some parents react strongly to these measures, particularly Leonna Barrett, the mother of one of the expelled students, who presses the mayor to oust Clark.
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state government unless students improve their test scores on the New Jersey Minimum Basic Skills Test. This film's title refers to the 1972
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concert). Napier lectures Clark over these incidents, demanding that he act as a team player; Clark subsequently re-instates Darnell.
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the film has an average score of 58 out of 100 based on 13 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by
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On September 13, 2018, it was reported that a television series based on the film was in development at
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on Saturdays, so that parents may attend alongside their children if they want (or need) to.
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Best Young Actor Supporting Role in a Motion Picture – Jermaine 'Huggy' Hopkins (nominated)
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Sams, graduating high school (amid the closing credits); Clark hands them their diplomas.
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years before, as the new school principal. Reluctantly, the mayor hires Clark.
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passed the basic skills test. He announces the results over his megaphone.
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Parts of the film, including the elementary school scenes, were filmed in
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Young Artist Award Best Motion Picture – Drama (nominated)
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Best Young Actress Supporting Role in a Motion Picture –
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gave the film a rare grade of "A+" on an A+ to F scale.
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Jackie Coogan Award – Norman Twain, producer (nominated)
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Lean On Me (film)

John G. Avildsen
Michael Schiffer
Norman Twain
Morgan Freeman
Beverly Todd
Robert Guillaume
Alan North
Lynne Thigpen
Robin Bartlett
Michael Beach
Ethan Phillips
John Carter
Bill Conti
Warner Bros.
biographical drama
John G. Avildsen
Michael Schiffer
Morgan Freeman
Joe Louis Clark
inner city
high school
Paterson, New Jersey
New Jersey
Bill Withers
song of the same name
Eastside High School
Paterson, New Jersey
Lincoln Center

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