School Daze
February 1988
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Derek Adams
Lee has a small, intimate talent; here, he goes for the big podium and blows it.
Janet Maslin
For every tough-minded confrontation between the different student factions, School Daze is apt to offer a love scene less than vital to the plot, or an overlong musical scene whose effect is that of treading water.
Rita Kempley
School Daze, with its pompous patchwork plot, is an arrogant, humorless, sexist mess.
Roger Ebert
Although the film has big structural problems and leaves a lot of loose ends, there was never a moment when it didn't absorb me.
Desson Thomson
Spike Lee had something in mind while he shot School Daze, his follow-up to the cult hit She's Gotta Have It. Unfortunately it's still lodged behind his cranium.
Critic reviews
Derek Adams
Lee has a small, intimate talent; here, he goes for the big podium and blows it.
Janet Maslin
For every tough-minded confrontation between the different student factions, School Daze is apt to offer a love scene less than vital to the plot, or an overlong musical scene whose effect is that of treading water.
Rita Kempley
School Daze, with its pompous patchwork plot, is an arrogant, humorless, sexist mess.
Roger Ebert
Although the film has big structural problems and leaves a lot of loose ends, there was never a moment when it didn't absorb me.
Desson Thomson
Spike Lee had something in mind while he shot School Daze, his follow-up to the cult hit She's Gotta Have It. Unfortunately it's still lodged behind his cranium.
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Cast and credits
Actors | Giancarlo Esposito, Kadeem Hardison, Ossie Davis, Laurence Fishburne |
Producers | Spike Lee |
Director | Spike Lee |
Writers | Spike Lee |
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English
Run time
120 minutes
Rating
R
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