School Daze

1988

Action / Comedy / Drama / Musical

9
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 57% · 30 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 79% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.1/10 10 7994 8K

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Plot summary

Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend.


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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by g-bodyl 8 / 10

A Look Inside The American Black Culture!

Spike Lee's School Daze is an interesting film, one that reveals the struggle of black society in the 1980's. This was the time period when they were struggling to keep their head afloat in this world despite the civil rights movement some decades before. This film has many flaws, but it's not a letdown thanks to the clear message Spike Lee was able to bring across. The opening of this film is powerful as Lee is showing the history of his people and the end.....well it came out of nowhere but I think it's rightly justified.

Spike Lee's film takes place at a historically black college during homecoming weekend and it's about how the sororities and the fraternities clash against each other.

The acting is decent: nothing to rave home about, but nothing to be ashamed of either. Laurence Fishburne may have had the best role as the revolutionary leader who wants to change how his school is ran.

Overall, School Daze is very interesting and it sends the message to America and more specifically to black people, to wake up and be proud of their heritage. These morals are a strong presence throughout the film and quite frankly, they elevate the movie. For the music itself, it's quite enjoyable though some songs are a tad too long. Kudos to Spike Lee for going somewhere that directors rarely go. I rate this film 8/10.

Reviewed by SnoopyStyle 6 / 10

surreality drift

Mission College is a leading black college in Atlanta. Dap (Laurence Fishburne) leads the politically active group advocating for the school to divest from South Africa. He is opposed by the head of the college fraternity, Julian Eaves (Giancarlo Esposito). Jane Toussaint (Tisha Campbell-Martin) is Julian's girlfriend. Dap's cousin Darrell (Spike Lee) is actually a lowly pledge at the fraternity. Along with their girlfriends and the school faculty, most of the population is divided into two camps based on their political views, skin color, and even hair.

It's real interesting that Spike Lee is exploring black consciousness within their own community. It tackles some important black social divides. Lee's often surreal touches do detracts from the main topic and don't get me started with the musical aspect. The old Hollywood musical scenes completely take the movie out of its time and place. The story starts to lose its anchor to reality. The beginning with the South Africa protest has such a great sense of time. It does hurt to see the movie drift from time to time.

Reviewed by lee_eisenberg 8 / 10

school is cool if you can protest apartheid

In what looked like Spike Lee's first "major" movie, different groups of students on a black campus clash over social status, apartheid, and similar things. We can clearly see how the darker-skinned people are more revolutionary, while the lighter-skinned people are a lot creepier (almost militaristic).

Maybe parts of "School Daze" seem like they could have used more - perhaps at times it seems preachy - but it's overall a very well done movie. As political activist Dap, Laurence Fishburne is as good as we would expect, and Giancarlo Esposito also does quite well as pro-status quo Julian. Also starring Tisha Campbell, Kyme, Joe Seneca, Ellen Holly, Art Evans, Ossie Davis, Bill Nunn, Branford Marsalis, Kadeem Hardison, Spike Lee and Samuel L. Jackson.

And remember: Wake up!

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