Lean on Me (1989)
Lean on Me is a 1989 dramatized biographical film written by Michael Schiffer, directed by John G. Avildsen and starring Morgan Freeman. Lean on Me is loosely based on the story of Joe Louis Clark, a real life inner city high school principal in Paterson, New Jersey, whose school is at risk of being taken over by the New Jersey state government unless students improve their test scores. This film's title refers to the 1972 Bill Withers song of the same name. Parts of the film, including the elementary school scenes, were filmed in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey.
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Cast:
- Karina Arroyave
- Robin Bartlett
- Michael Beach
- Ivonne Coll
- Cole Dragone
- Morgan Freeman
- Robert Guillaume
- Michael Imperioli
- Jermaine 'Huggy' Hopkins
- Jim Moody
- Michael P. Moran
- Alan North
- Ethan Phillips
- Sandra Reaves-Phillips
- Linda M. Salgado
- Sloane Shelton
- Reverend Herschell Slappy
- Mike Starr
- Regina Taylor
- Lynne Thigpen
- Beverly Todd
- Tony Todd
- Karen Malina White