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Mar 3, 1989 · With Morgan Freeman, Beverly Todd, Robert Guillaume, Alan North. The dedicated but tyrannical Joe Clark is appointed the principal of a decaying inner-city school he is determined to improve by any and all means.
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- John G. Avildsen
- 1989-03-03
Blithe Spirit. 1945 1h 36m Approved. 7.0 (8K) Rate. A man and his second wife are haunted by the ghost of his first wife. Director David Lean Stars Rex Harrison Constance Cummings Kay Hammond. 4. Brief Encounter. 1945 1h 26m Approved.
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Eastside High was out of control…until Joe Clark took it back. 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 ...
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- John G. Avildsen
David Lean. Director: Lawrence of Arabia. An important British filmmaker, David Lean was born in Croydon on March 25, 1908 and brought up in a strict Quaker family (ironically, as a child he wasn't allowed to go to the movies). During the 1920s, he briefly considered the possibility of becoming an accountant like his father before finding a job ...
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- Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
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- Limehouse, London, England, UK
- Madeleine (1950) Made primarily as a wedding present to his then wife and lead actress of “Madeline’s” stage version who then reprised her role in the film, Ann Todd, “Madeleine” is famously Lean’s least favorite film of his own, and is hardly surprising to see why he must hold that opinion: the suspense is unnecessarily vamped up, the courtroom drama doesn’t go outside the realms of solid, mildly turgid filmmaking and the results are middling at best to contemporary eyes.
- This Happy Breed (1944) Another adaptation of a Noël Coward play, “This Happy Breed” centers on the trials of a British family set in the period between the two World Wars.
- Blithe Spirit (1945) Lean’s first few films were adapted from Noël Coward’s plays that on stage were highly successful productions and gave Lean a tested platform to establish his career on.
- The Passionate Friends (1949) After finishing his stellar adaptations of two great Charles Dickens novels, Lean turned to an H.G.
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I have never seen this movie nor heard of it until this week. So decided to watch it tonight and man of course it was fantastic. The casting was excellent and the story was brilliant. It's sad to think that there are schools like this in the US to this day that kids miss out on great experience in education. Hope others watch this movie such as ...
