School Daze

MOVIE #1,765 • 🍿🍿🍿 • 06.26.24 a SPIKE LEE Director Focus Joint This movie is A LOT. I really tried to get into it, but the tone just completely escaped me. In some ways, I hate that this was my response and I wasn’t able to transcend the cultural divide. But on the other hand, does this work as a comedy? I get that he’s spoofing something very niche (the Greek life experience at a historically black college) but I was stone-faced the entire time. Also, it’s a musical for some reason?? Yeah, this one flummoxed (and disappointed) me. Giancarlo Esposito is made up to look like Grocho Marx, so there’s that at least…

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School Daze is a 1988 American musical drama comedy film written and directed by Spike Lee and starring Lee along with Laurence Fishburne (credited as Larry Fishburne), Giancarlo Esposito, and Tisha Campbell. Released by Columbia Pictures as Lee's second feature film, and based partly on his experiences as a student at Morehouse College in the Atlanta University Center during the 1970s, it is a story about undergraduates in a fraternity and sorority clashing with some of their classmates at a historically black college during homecoming week. It also touches upon issues of colorism, elitism, classism, political activism, hazing, groupthink, female self-esteem, social mobility, and hair texture bias within the African-American community. It was released on February 12, 1988.