- Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Giancarlo Esposito, Tisha Campbell-Martin, Kyme, Joe Seneca
- Directors: Spike Lee
- Writers: Spike Lee
- Producers: Spike Lee, Grace Blake, Loretha C. Jones, Monty Ross
- Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language: English
- Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
- Region: (US and Canada This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Release Date: Jan 30 2001
- Run Time: 121 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000051YMS
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Amazon Bestsellers Rank:
#11,396 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
- #32 in DVD > Comedy > School Days
- #82 in DVD > Musicals & Performing Arts > Musicals > Comedy
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Spike Lee's follow-up to his unlikely hit She's Gotta Have It was this ambitious--some would say too ambitious--attempt at a musical about college life. But Lee, ever the provocateur, doesn't settle for a simple college comedy. Rather, he wants to make a point about the social divisions within all-black colleges: between the socializers and the socially conscious, and between light and dark-skinned blacks. Laurence Fishburne plays a politically aware student trying to bring his fellow students together; Giancarlo Esposito plays the fraternity boss who constantly seeks to insert a wedge between the haves and have-nots. Lee himself plays a pawn in the middle, a would-be frat boy undergoing a wicked Hell Week as a pledge. The story doesn't pull together and the musical numbers--more spoof than anything else--only serve to fragment it. While it offers interesting points, it never does so in a particularly cohesive way. --Marshall Fine
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5.0 out of 5 stars
If you don't get it...,
By Penny Woods "The People's Chump" (Chapel Hill, North Carolina United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: School Daze (DVD)
To the person who gave this movie five stars yet panned this film, this is a film parodying life at a fictional HBCU during its homecoming, with a focus on three groups on campus: "Da Fellas" and their women (the women are known in the "Straight and Nappy" musical bit as the Jiggaboos, a racist term for African-Americans, because the women refuse to relax their hair), the people who would rather urge Mission College to divest from South Africa because of discrimination at that time; Gamma Phi Gamma and the Gammites, men who claim to have true brotherhood but dish out abusive punishments and orders to "obtain" that brotherhood; and the Gamma Rays (also known as the Wannabes because most--note I did not say all--of these women are light-skinned African Americans that relax their hair and are apparently rich), women that are just mere sex objects and trophies to the Gammas. And no, Spike Lee does not play Urkel--otherwise, he'd be wearing suspenders and speaking in an annoying nasal voice. He plays one of the Gammites who just happens to be connected to Dap (Lawrence Fishburne), one of Da Fellas. Of course, during its time, several people didn't understand this film. For example, while "School Daze" was shooting, the then-president of Morehouse kicked Lee and his cast and crew off of the college (Lee's alma mater) for the portrayal of the Mission College school president in the movie, who is dark-skinned. "School Daze" is a parody focusing mainly on colorism (discrimination among African-Americans based on skin tone), such as the view that the lighter your skin is if you're black, the more doors open for you (which was true prior to intergration laws). I really do like this movie, especially the song sequences done by cast members ("Straight and Nappy," "Be Alone Tonight"). I really encourage people to see this film. Although I realize this movie is not considered to be as good as "Do the Right Thing" or "She's Gotta Have It," this movie does have a point, and most people, despite their race, can relate to the themes presented in this movie.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great Messages For Any College Student,
By A Customer
This review is from: School Daze (VHS Tape)
The movie "School Daze" is as good in my opinion as many movies on "college life" that it transcends time and never becomes archiaic. actors Giancarlo Esposito,Lawrence Fishburne,Spike Lee and Tisha Campbell give talented performances as students and the best lessons were geared to the girls as when Tisha Campbell learns only too late that "she was being tested" as well by the rules of "eliteness":(don't assume that what's popular is considered protocol).The movie ends with the "ringing of the class bells" at sunrise bringing faculty and students out of their dorms "et al" as Lawrence Fishburne's charactor yells "Wake Up"(e.g alert your mentality to a bettr you via smarter actions).
5.0 out of 5 stars
Getting to the Root of Yesterday's and Today's Problems,
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This review is from: School Daze (DVD)
I have to totally disagree with the editorial review stating the movie doens't come together. The movie does come together speaking of divisions on different planes. Whether it's on the campus of an HBCU or urban city, people of color have come across that division of "wannabees" & "jigaboos". In so many movies, we point our fingers at "them" for not treating us as equals but this movie made us to forcible point at ourselves. It made us look at how we discriminate among ourselves that white is right and black in bad. What is the real purpose of sororities & fraternities. We need to be reminded why HBCUs were built - because we couldn't attend elsewhere because of discrimination - yet we discriminate ourselves. Spike is reminding us to not become lulled into a deep sleep with material trappings (cars, jewelry, etc.) and wake up to reality. We can't stand together if divided among ourselves. I highly recommend this movie. It also allows you to see stars in their early years. I also cherish scenes of the late Phyllis Hyman.
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