Laurence Fishburne, Giancarlo Esposito, Kasi Lemmons
Spike Lee's follow-up to his unlikely hit She's Gotta Have It was this ambitious--some would say too ambitious--attempt at a musical about college life. But Lee, ever the provocateur, doesn't s...( read more
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DVD Release Date: January 30, 2001
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March 9, 2007Good movie with an important message. The musical numbers were pretty funny. But the end was terribly hokey, like that would ever work in real life.
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April 29, 2009I feel like this film is a part of the black film lexicon and therefore I NEEDED to see it. It was weird watching something I could relate to in so many ways, even before I went to college. I highly recommend!
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November 18, 2009It's a truly unique breed of film. It's not quite a comedy or a drama or a coming of age story, but a collaboration of the three. Spike Lee shows that not all college oriented films are dim witted and meaningless, but that they can have emotional backing and character development...( read more)
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July 19, 2009Spike Lee makes a musical. Call it the African-American Grease. Extremely colorful and very ambitious. In fact, it's incredibly bizarre at times. I can't say I was much of a fan.
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December 23, 2008If you have not sen this movie STOP everything and go rernt it, buy it, do something you got to see it!
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October 15, 2008I like it because i went to school at the AU center. lol Memories.
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January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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January 24, 2008THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF A SPIKE LEE CLASSIC.....
SCHOOL DAZE was the launching pad for several actors here including Kasi Lemmons(who would go on to direct several films),Kadeem Hardison,Jasmine Guy,Tisha Campbell,Darryl Bell and Samuel L. Jackson(in a cameo role)not to mention others who would go on to other careers. This was grand example of black college life in way it has never been addressed and Spike Lee did this wonderfully with gorgeous sets and brilliant dialogue. This needs to be re-released back in theatres for its 20th anniversary and with a director's cut would be sufficient.
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