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Lean On Me

Lean On Me

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 3, 1989

Runtime

1h 48m

Genres

Drama

User Score

73%

Original Title

Lean On Me

Production Companies

Norman Twain Productions, Warner Bros. Pictures

Director

John G. Avildsen

Budget

$10,000,000

Revenue

$31,906,454

Description

When principal Joe Clark takes over decaying Eastside High School, he's faced with students wearing gang colors and graffiti-covered walls. Determined to do anything he must to turn the school around, he expels suspected drug dealers, padlocks doors and demands effort and results from students, staff and parents. Autocratic to a fault, this real-life educator put it all on the line.