- HD 1080
- Runtime: 108m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: John G. Avildsen
- Stars: Morgan Freeman, Beverly Todd, Robert Guillaume, Ethan Phillips, Lynne Thigpen
- keywords: high school, violence in schools, based on true story, gang, drug dealing, school principal, public education
- Production_studio: Norman Twain Productions, Warner Bros. Pictures
- Slogan: Eastside High was out of control...until Joe Clark took it back.
- The Lean On Me is featured in the top rankings of 1989
- #21 in Top Drama Movies of 1989
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.
