Lean on Me Page #3

Synopsis: An arrogant and unorthodox teacher returns as principal to the idyllic high school from which he had earlier been fired to find it a den of drug abuse, gang violence, and urban despair. Eventually his successful but unorthodox methods lead to a clash with city officials that threatens to undo all his efforts. Based on a true story.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): John G. Avildsen
Production: Warner Home Video
  3 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Rotten Tomatoes:
69%
PG-13
Year:
1989
108 min
5,086 Views


We've heard so much

about you.

In anticipation

of your arrival,

ms. Levias, your other

vice principal, and i

have appointed

an executive committee

to oversee

certain areas

where we have noted

a need for improvement-

you may sit down,

mr. O'malley.

You think you can

run this school?

If you could,

then i wouldn't

be here, would i?

No one talks

in my meetings.

No one!

Take out your

pencils and write.

I want the names

of every hoodlum,

drug dealer,

and miscreant

who's done nothing

but take

this place apart

on my desk

by noon today.

Reverend slappy.

Yes, sir.

You're now

the chief custodian.

You will scour

this building clean.

Graffiti goes up,

it's off the next day.

Yes, sir.

The very next day.

Detention students

can help you.

Let them scrub

this place for a while.

And tear down those cages

in the cafeteria.

You treat them

like animals,

that's exactly

how they'll behave.

This is my new dean

of security,

mr. William wright.

He will be

my avenging angel

as you teachers

reclaim the halls.

This is an institution

of learning.

If you can't control it,

how can you teach?

Discipline is not the enemy

of enthusiasm.

Mr. Zirella.

Yes?

Mr. Zirella, you are now

my new head football coach.

Mr. Darnell.

Stand up,

mr. Darnell.

Mr. Darnell will be

your assistant.

You know why

you're being demoted?

Because i'm sick

and tired

of our football team getting

pushed all over the field.

Thank you. Sit down.

I want precision.

I want

a weight program.

If you don't like it,

mr. Darnell, quit.

Same goes

for the rest of you.

You've tried it your way

for years.

Your students can't pass

a minimum basic skills test.

That means they can

hardly read!

They've given me

less than one year,

one school year to turn

this place around,

to get those

test scores up

so the state

will not take us over

to perform the task

which you have failed to do-

to educate our children!

Forget about the way

it used to be.

It's not

a damn democracy.

We're in a state

of emergency,

and my word is law!

There's only one boss

in this place,

and that's me,

the h-n-l-c.

Are there

any questions?

Mr. Wright.

The h-n-l-c?

The head n*gger

in charge.

Everybody, right up here,

right here.

Check this out.

When i want

your body...

george, brian, sams,

they want you onstage.

Let's go.

Right now.

Mrs. Santos,

what about us?

What about you?

What about me?

Sit down.

I said sit down.

What do they

want us for?

I don't know.

Go.

What do you got

to do around here

to get picked

for something?

Maria, sit down.

Get down

get down

some guys are lame

they want my fame

i got a girl

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Michael Schiffer

Michael Schiffer is an American screenwriter, video game writer and film producer. Schiffer is known for such films and video games as Colors, Lean on Me, Crimson Tide, The Four Feathers, The Peacemaker and Call of Duty. more…

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