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You've found the one and only fanlisting for the 1989 movie Lean on me, starring Morgan Freeman.

What's a fanlisting anyway? A fanlisting is a place for all the fans of a particular show, movie, actor/actress, singer - I think you got it - to come together and build the biggest listing of people all around the world who are fans of that certain subject. You can learn much more about fanlistings at thefanlistings.org.

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Last update: December 5, 2008
Opening: September 8th, 2003

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Unfortunally, it doesn't matter how much I want, wish, hope, ask or cry for, I have no conections with Morgan Freeman, nor anyone related to the movie Lean on me.

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ABOUT

When a school in Paterson, New Jersey has a less than average basic skills test scores, it faces the possibility of being taken over by the state. So the mayor asks the school superintendent for help, and he suggests that they appoint the controversial Joe Clark (who had earlier been fired from that same school) as the school principal. Clark begrudgingly agrees. And when he arrives, he finds it a den of drug abuse, gang violence and urban despair. He shakes things up by reassigning teachers and calling all of them incompetent. And it isn't long that a lot of people want him out, but, at the same time, he gains the respect of some of the teachers and the students. Eventually his successful, though unorthodox, methods lead to a clash with city officials that threatens to undo all his efforts. Based on a true story.

QUOTES

Joe Clark: Discipline is not the enemy of enthusiasm.

Joe Clark: There's only one boss around here, and that's me. The HNIC. [Exits.]
Mr. O'Malley: "HNIC"?
Ms. Levias: Head nigger in charge.

Dr. Frank Napier: If you're so hot on discipline then, goddammit, start by accepting mine. Because contrary to popular opinion, I'm the head nigger in charge!

Joe Clark: The Lord said, do whatever you have to do. And he didn't say "Joe, be polite."

[To a crack addict]
Joe Clark: If you want to kill yourself, don't fuck around with it, go on and do it expeditiously.

[With a baseball bat in his hand]
Joe Clark: They used to call me Crazy Joe. Well now they can call me Batman!

Thomas Sams: Girl! I look at you and I want that oochie coochie!

Joe Clark: I don't have to do nothin' but stay black and die!

[After refusing admittance to the Fire Chief]
Joe Clark: You know what he's saying right now? "Black bastard can't throw me out!" You know where he's saying it? Out in the parking lot.

Joe Clark: Get off welfare!

Thomas Sams: We don't want a good principal! We want Mr. Clark!

[Addressing students]
Joe Clark: They said this school was dead. Like the cemetery it's built on. But we call our Eastside teams 'Ghosts,' don't we? And what are ghosts? Ghosts are spirits that rise from the dead. I want you to be my ghosts.

Joe Clark: The problem with teenagers today is you don't know nothing. The problem with being a teenager is you think you know better than those who have been down that road you're traveling.