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School Daze is a 1988 American musical drama comedy film written and directed by Spike Lee and starring Lee along with Laurence Fishburne (credited as Larry Fishburne), Giancarlo Esposito, and Tisha Campbell.
Spike Lee ’s “School Daze” is the first movie in a long time where the black characters seem to be relating to one another, instead of to a hypothetical white audience. Lee’s “She’s Gotta Have It” was another, and then you have to go back to films like “Sweet Sweetback’s Badass Song” in 1970.
On Homecoming Weekend at the historical African-American university, Mission College in Georgia, the militant senior Vaughn "Dap" Dunlap (Laurence Fishburne) leads a protest rally regarding the school's involvement with apartheid in South Africa.
At historically black Mission College, the activist-minded Dap (Larry Fishburne) immerses himself in a world of political rhetoric and social movements -- one day he hopes to rally the students as...
- Musical, Comedy
An off-beat musical comedy that takes an unforgettable look at black college life. Amidst gala coronations, football, fraternities, parades and parties these characters find themselves caught...
SCHOOL DAZE. Innovative filmmaker, Spike Lee (She's Gotta Have It), brings to the screen a music-filled, offbeat contemporary comedy that takes an unforgettable look at black college life.
Directed by Spike Lee • 1988 • United States. Starring Laurence Fishburne, Giancarlo Esposito, Tisha Campbell. Spike Lee’s audacious follow-up to SHE’S GOTTA HAVE IT explores the intricacies of Black college life through the sights, sounds, and bittersweet memories of homecoming weekend.
