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The Principal
1987
When hard-drinking, motorbike-riding Rick Latimer (James Belushi) gets thrown out of the upscale high school where he teaches after drunkenly trashing a car with a baseball bat, he gets "promoted" to the position of principal--at the worst high school in the city. This is the kind of drug-infested campus where students carry .. Read more
| Starring | James Belushi, Louis Gossett Jr., Rae Dawn Chong, Esai Morales |
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| Director | Christopher Cain |
| Genres | Drama |
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The Principal
When hard-drinking, motorbike-riding Rick Latimer (James Belushi) gets thrown out of the upscale high school where he teaches after drunkenly trashing a car with a baseball bat, he gets "promoted" to the position of principal--at the worst high school in the city. This is the kind of drug-infested campus where students carry weapons and teachers spend most of their time trying to keep their charges from killing each other. Before Latimer can bring education back into the classrooms of Brandel High, he must put down the school's top menace, gang leader Victor Duncan (Michael Wright). In the process, the ne'er-do-well pedagogue finds his own life taking a surprising turn. The film also stars Louis Gossett, Jr. and Rae Dawn Chong.
| Starring | James Belushi, Louis Gossett Jr., Rae Dawn Chong, Esai Morales, Michael Wright |
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| Director | Christopher Cain |
| Studio | SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 46 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Dubbed | French, German, Italian, Spanish |
| Subtitles | DVD: Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | DVD: 12 Aug 2002 Production year: 1987 |
| Format | DVD |
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This adequate reworking of an over-familiar tale stars James Belushi as a “problem” teacher whose career seems to have reached rock bottom when he is made principal of the worst school in the neighbourhood. His new charges are an unwholesome mixture of delinquents and drug addicts. Belushi, who's never quite escaped the screen shadow of his dead brother, John, is lightweight but likeable. But it's Louis Gossett Jr, as the school's tough-nut security chief, who takes the acting honours. The mix of comedy and drama is perhaps hard to take, but Belushi's showdown with the school's top tough — shades of High Noon — is exciting enough.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
becoming true to life in some schools
a very entertaining film but it is portraying an excecptable way of life in to many of our schools as a film:great entertainment, as a way of life,it scares me
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
becoming true to life in some schools
a very entertaining film but it is portraying an excecptable way of life in to many of our schools as a film:great entertainment, as a way of life,it scares me
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