Lean on Me

Audience Reviews

View All (1000+)

Blu B A Classic Drama. Phenominal acting across the board with easily the highlight being Morgan Freeman delivering one of the best performances of his career. His fire and passion is relentless and never lets up once as he commands the screen. What's amazing is he is never portrayed as a perfect character despite standing for law and order. And never comes across as a god himself. Everything else is really well done with really good direction overall here. If I can fault this for one thing it's that it can be very over the top and overdramitize constantly. However, that being said the situation it portrays comes off as over the top but also very real and I understand they are packing a whole school year in under 2 hours you have to compress things. It can feel very exhausting though as this moves at a ridiculously fast pace throwing nonstop drama, tension, passion, and keeps upping the stakes. It can also feel like stuff just happens a bit as certain plot lines don' really go anywhere at times like the pregnancy and the one kid leaving feel almost forgotten about. But it just works overall because of how fast everything hits and it does build on top of each other extremely well. And above all else, it's an inspiring story that really works. Anyone who is a fan of any actors in this, the director, inner city dramas or dramas in general will like this. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 08/24/24 Full Review Aj L One of my - if not my favourite movie, that's partly nostalgia based but brilliant, so underrated! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/31/24 Full Review S R I remember it being a moving film showing how standing for good can lead to better outcomes. I saw it again and it still has a moving story based on true events. It is powerful and Freeman carries to movie. Saw on HBO. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 04/13/24 Full Review Jacob H Its a great wholesome movie highlighting the difficulties an inner-city school faces. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/09/24 Full Review Audience Member one of Morgan Freeman's early successes and one of the best performances of his career! the story takes place in New Jersey in 1967 at Eastside High School one of the lowest ranking institutions it's up to the state to take control if the students don't pass the basic skills tests Freeman plays a teacher that gets transferred to a more savage, run down location filled with street gangs, graffiti, vandalism, drugs etc. it definitely comes off as a jungle with little to no control over the student population imbreu is defined as a stain on the soul, the cancer of racism 20 years later Joe Clark the superintendent is tasked with reinvigorating everything but the corruption has to be dealt with first his methods come off as unorthodox to both teachers and students, no one knows what he's doing exactly but that's the way Clark likes it the mayor, the fire chief, and even a few parents have legitimate concerns about how he runs the school Clark gets things improved but as a person he needs to recognize gratitude and appreciation for others discipline is not the enemy of enthusiasm, treat people like animals that's what they become, how do you run a school if you can't control its students, you fail in life, you don't blame others only yourselves, you come to school to learn and to work hard for what you want, we sink we swim we rise we fall together, many people don't believe we can make it in the world but we can have the power to turn that around the movie plays a big part in telling us we all need a wake up call so we can avoid the pitfalls that await us if we turn away from being educated Freeman's performance is a tour de force, the music is hip, and the message is pretty clear cut well-spoken and empowering! Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 03/13/23 Full Review steve d Nothing new but it works as well as it should. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Read all reviews

Lean on Me

My Rating

Read More Read Less POST RATING WRITE A REVIEW EDIT REVIEW

Most Popular at Home Now