School Daze Movie Review 1988

Director/writer/star Lee's second outing is a rambunctious comedy (with a message, of course) set at an African-American college in the South. Skimpy plot revolves around the college's homecoming weekend and conflict among frats and sororities and African-Americans who would lose their racial identity and others who assert it. Entertaining and thought provoking. A glimpse at Lee's "promise," fulfilled in "Do the Right Thing."

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Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 114 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

African America, Campus Capers, New Black Cinema

Screenplay

Spike Lee

Cast

Spike Lee, Laurence "Larry" Fishburne, Giancarlo Esposito, Tisha Campbell, Ossie Davis, Joe Seneca, Art Evans, Ellen Holly, Branford Marsalis, Bill Nunn, Kadeem Hardison, Darryl M. Bell, Joie Lee, Tyra Ferrell, Jasmine Guy, Gregg Burge, Kasi Lemmons, Samuel L. Jackson, Phyllis Hyman, James Bond

Cinematography

Ernest R. Dickerson

Director

Spike Lee

Music

Bill Lee

Other

Barry Alexander Brown

Producer

Spike Lee