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“School Daze” couldn’t care less. What’s surprising is that its revolutionary approach is found in a daffy story about undergraduates at an all-black university.
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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...
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- Spike Lee
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- Laurence Fishburne
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.
A didactic collegiate farce -- "Animal House" with pan-African politics, and an enormously embarrassing encore. Tell an inexperienced director he's a genius, and you create Dr. Frankenstein. School Daze, with its pompous patchwork plot, is an arrogant, humorless, sexist mess. Read More. By Rita Kempley FULL REVIEW.
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- Spike Lee
- R
- Laurence Fishburne
Parents need to know that School Daze is a Spike Lee dramedy with a few musical numbers set at a fictional, historically all-Black college campus. Controversial issues are raised about racism, racial injustice, and academic and social hierarchies and disparities.
- Spike Lee
- Andrea Beach
- Columbia Pictures
Review by Josh Lewis ★★★★ a very colorful, musical, expressive college film where the very act of expression and having a voice is maximized to its most joyous, stylistic extreme, but not without the context of who is historically denied that joy and why.
School Daze is a college musical comedy with a conscience; beneath the hijinks lies a bleeding heart for those suffering under apartheid in South Africa. Full Review | Aug 26, 2019
