Lean on Me

Easily Morgan Freeman's most underrated performance--and that counts him not winning an Oscar for The Shawshank Redemption. The grounded narrative will resonate with anyone who has ever tried to create lasting change inside an organization, only to find themselves confronted with conservative bureaucracy. But it's fun as hell, too! It has some meme worthy moments, including one of the best arguments ever filmed (that ends with "C'mon, let's get something to eat"). Highly recommended.

Definitely one of Morgan Freeman's best roles. He is perfect as Joe Clark in an extremely powerful story of determination, willpower, and the desire to constantly make things better at all costs.

Good Movie I Saw This Recently And I Think It's Held Up Well Overtime

EXCELLENT. Worth seeing if only for the scene where Morgan Freeman jumpropes.

Nice to see Avildsen finally have the courage to do a proper “underdog” follow-through! It’s definitely clichéd and predictable from the get-go, but stands out from the group of 90s BLACKBOARD JUNGLE riffs thanks to powerful and committed performances all round, starting with Freeman who is unafraid to make his character a sanctimonious bully at times, but does chart a gradual course towards self-refinement; this ultimately makes the unlikely final scenes quietly affecting and moving.

B+

Pretty much a vehicle for a good performance by Morgan Freeman. The rest is just kind of meh.

Great performance by Freeman.

Unspectacular but well acted

I love this movie. It was about the town next to mine, how can I not?

morgan freeman is one of the best actors that ever lived

I really liked it when I was a little girl.

Morgan Freeman is excellent as Clark. He had risen to prominence only a couple of years before this in "Street Smart", and this was his first chance to carry a movie in the lead role. He's so good, he almost convinces me. But the film really isn't. The film is so melodramatic that you can't really take it very seriously.

One of the many inspirational teacher genre in the 80s and 90s, this one is merely average.

Clark starts out taking the assignment with a huge chip on his shoulder that causes good and harm alike. It's hard to like him sometimes. There are a lot of movies about trying to turn around failing schools. It's also based upon a true story, yet not, so it becomes hard to evaluate. Clark turned around the school, but not without a lot of attrition, and I'm not sure if all of it was needed. The big question is, is that to be admired? Some decisions are decidedly not. Ending is contradictory.

childish, though going inclined towards non childish

I've shot a water gun at a guy who dated the real Joe Clark's daughter. ~claims to fame~

and here I was thinking it was gonna be a docu on the filmmaker. (ok, sure - that one was weak). The issue I DID have with the film, though, could be answered with the initials M.F. He needs to retire, to a Home for the Sanctimonious. Or use that intoning voice to wax warmly about various consumer products.

okul, müdür, disiplin, ögretmen, kötü okul, eyalet sinavi , zenci agirlikli okul (Joe clark kokusmus okulu kendine özgü yöntemlerle düzeltir.)

Morgan Freeman is a self serious asshole to a bunch of kids. Sometimes there's a point underlying his cruel scoldings, sometimes there isn't. He's the type of asshole who thinks that motivational humiliation is uniformly effective. Eventually he reforms himself or whatever, but at that point the upliftment was to cliche and unbelievable for me to even care.

Take the inner city school and turn it around. It's already been done better.

A middling entry in the "inspirational educator" genre, although it fails to transcend the clichés.