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School Daze (1988)

February. 12,1988
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Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend.

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Acensbart
1988/02/12

Excellent but underrated film

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WillSushyMedia
1988/02/13

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

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Fairaher
1988/02/14

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

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Hadrina
1988/02/15

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

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jcpraduca
1988/02/16

Spike Lee is a weird little character; however, he is a brilliant filmmaker. School Daze captures every element of the Morehouse College experience, the school Lee graduated from (and I attended Morehouse last year.) The only thing different between the movie and reality is that the school in the movie was called Mission College, which merged Morehouse (a historically black, all-boys school) and Spelman College (the historically black, all-girls school across the street). Everything else is the same, from the fraternities and sororities, to the campus (it was filmed at Morehouse, Spelman, as well as two other HBCUs nearby) Spike brilliantly captured the experience of Morehouse and Spelman, added satire and awesome compositions, and merged it into a film that is timeless.

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john.foulks
1988/02/17

This is probably Spike Lee's best movie, except for Malcolm X, growing up in Washington DC and being dark skinned, I can relate to what the movie is really saying, I went to one of the lesser known colleges in DC, and I do wish that I could of went to Howard University, but it seemed that if you are light skinned, you will be noticed more than others, I was truly inspired about Spike Lee's performance as Half Pint, he was infatuated as being a gammar man, and was really trying very hard to fulfill his obligations and make everyone believe he is strong and not weak, I also liked the other actors in the movie like Lawrence (Larry) Fishburn and Sammuel L. Jackson whom went on to become huge stars of there on.

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Dr. Ed-2
1988/02/18

is the totally mesmerizing musical number headed by Tisha Campbell in an all-out Supremes homage. Try taking your eyes off Jasmine Guy as she gyrates through this number. Great song with campy, over-the-top choreography as Guy and 2 other slink and stalk across the stage in skin-tight gowns. The high point of the film! Was this song a hit back in 1988?

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Deceptikon225
1988/02/19

This film dealt with a lot of inner conflicts that African-Americans where unwilling to deal with at the time. Class struggles, light skinned vs. dark skinned and greeks vs. non-greeks. I just purchased it on DVD, but I remember seeing this film when it first came out in February of 1988 and it is just as powerful and entertaining now as it was then. It's amazing to look at this film now and see all of the actors who went on to successful careers afterwards, like Laurence(then Larry) Fishburne, Tisha Campbell, Giancarlo Esposito, Roger Guenveur Smith, Kadeem Hardison, Jasmine Guy, Darryl Bell, Rusty Cundieff(director of "Tales From The Hood"), Bill Nunn, Branford Marsalis, and of course I can't forget Samuel L. Jackson. Three years after this film came out a cousin from Seattle came to visit, I showed him this film and he was surprised to discover that there were actually historically black colleges and universities(HBCU's) in this country. He later attended Southern University here in Baton Rouge. That was the effect this film had and continues to have on young African-Americans and their views of HBCU's.

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