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DVD Features:
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 1 minutes
- Video: Color
- Released: January 30, 2001
- Originally Released: 1988
- Label: Sony Pictures
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Packaging: Keep Case
- Single Side - Dual Layer
- Aspect Ratio: Full Frame - 1.33
- Audio:
- Dolby Surround - English
- Additional Release Material:
- Bonus Trailer:
- BOYZ N THE HOOD
- POETIC JUSTICE
- Trailers: Original Theatrical Trailer
- Audio Commentary: Spike Lee - Director
- Text/Photo Galleries:
- Talent Files
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Laurence Fishburne, Giancarlo Esposito, Tisha Campbell-Martin, Kyme, Joe Seneca, Art Evans, Ellen Holly & Ossie Davis | |
| Performer: | Bill Nunn, Spike Lee, Branford Marsalis, Kadeem Hardison, James Bond III, Roger Guenveur Smith, Kirk Taylor, Joie Lee, Tyra Ferrell, Jasmine Guy, Cinqué Lee, Kasi Lemmons, Toni Ann Johnson, A.J. Johnson, Cassi Davis & Samuel L. Jackson | |
| Directed by | Spike Lee | |
| Edited by | Barry Alexander Brown | |
| Screenwriting by | Spike Lee | |
| Composition by | Bill Lee | |
| Produced by | Spike Lee | |
| Director of Photography: | Ernest Dickerson |
Entertainment Reviews:
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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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Washington Post
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.
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Thrillist
Rating: 3.5/4 --
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.
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Chicago Sun-Times
...SCHOOL DAZE touches on some important themes....Fishburne brings great authority to his role...
Variety
Rating: 1.5/4 --
A shapeless mess that falls far short of the high expectations created by Lee's first feature.
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TV Guide
Everything about School Daze is frantic, and the energy is addictive.
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United Press International
The sexist language and images in the film are tedious and predictable.
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Sojourner
Product Description:
With SCHOOL DAZE, writer-director Spike Lee examines the tensions, biases, and frustrations of middle-class black youth at a southern college campus. Lee combines musical and fantasy sequences with satirical scenes to tell this pointed story of two cousins who attend the same all-black university. Dap Dunlap (Laurence Fishburne) is the solemn and dedicated activist, while Half-Pint (Lee), his younger cousin, spends most of his time rushing the school's most popular fraternity while desperately trying to find romance. As the film follows the two young men attempting to achieve their disparate goals, it also examines intraracial conflict in a school divided into warring camps: the light-skinned Wannabees and the dark-skinned Jigaboos. Lee, using the college environment as a microcosm in which to further explore black intraracial conflicts--for example, the way different camps wear their hair--doesn't forget that he's an entertainer first and foremost. SCHOOL DAZE, taking its cue from ANIMAL HOUSE, pokes fun at fraternities and sororities, including a hysterical extended sequence on the rigors of hazing. Featuring a pulsating soundtrack and an appearance by go-go legends EU, Lee's return to school is at once revealing and raucous.
Plot Synopsis:
At this African American college, amid gala coronations, football, fraternities, parades, and parties, a group of buddies find themselves caught up in romance, relationship rituals, and rivalries during one outrageous homecoming weekend. The story follows two cousins who have opposing attitudes when it comes to the purpose of college: learning versus partying. Spike Lee's sprawling exploration of the tensions that are present on black college campuses is an exhilarating blend of surreal musical, comedy, and poignant social criticism.
Keywords:
Buddies
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Campus Life
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Coming Of Age
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Recommended
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Independent
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Theatrical Release
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Essential Cinema
Production Notes:
- Theatrical release: February 1988.
- The film was shot on location in Atlanta, Georgia (Morehouse, Clark, and Morris Brown Colleges, and Atlanta University) and Brooklyn, New York.
- The role of Jane Toussaint was originally to be played by former Miss America Vanessa Williams. When the singer withdrew from the cast during production, she was replaced by actress Tisha Campbell.
- Several college bands and choruses appeared on the film's soundtrack: the Morehouse College Glee Club, the Morehouse College Marching Band, the Clark College Marching Band and the Morris Brown College Marching Band.
- SCHOOL DAZE is credited in memory of Kwame Olantunji, Willi Smith, Harold Vick, and Dr. Wendall P. Whalum.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 28,970
- UPC: 043396058347
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