Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
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.
- high school
- violence in schools
- based on true story
- gang
- drug dealing
- school principal
- public education
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Morgan Freeman
Principal Joe Clark
Beverly Todd
Ms. Levias
Robert Guillaume
Dr. Frank Napier
Ethan Phillips
Mr. Rosenberg
- Lynne Thigpen — Leonna Barrett
- Michael Beach — Mr. Darnell
- Tony Todd — Mr. William Wright
- Karen Malina White — Kaneesha Carter
- Alan North — Mayor Don Bottman
- Robin Bartlett — Mrs. Elliott
- Sandra Reaves-Phillips — Mrs. Powers
- Sloane Shelton — Mrs. Hamilton
- Jermaine Hopkins — Thomas Sams
- Karina Arroyave — Maria
- Ivonne Coll — Mrs. Santos
- Directed
- John G. Avildsen
- Written
- Michael Schiffer
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 347 ratings
- Studio
- Norman Twain Productions, Warner Bros. Pictures
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