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The Principal Reviews

1987

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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, Michael Wright
Director	Christopher Cain
Genres	Drama

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  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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  - Brian Barker
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  - 02 Dec 2004 at 21:31
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  Don't watch
  
  This has got to be the worst film I've ever watched. Very slow, a good story line wasted. Bad eighties film, bad acting. Watched to the end with the aid of ... read more »
  
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  - 25 Feb 2009 at 11:37
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  great
  
  the principal,what can you say about this film,it`s just belushi at his very best,i cant think that he will ever make a better film,it is great
  
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  - 20 Sep 2007 at 10:39
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  The principal
  
  Started unpromisingly, hero irritating, but improved vastly. A good struggle of good v evil. Enjoyable and well worth watching.
  
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  - 25 Oct 2005 at 12:07
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  We Should All Have Principals Like This
  
  Story about a teacher (James Belushi)who has reached the end of the road as he tries to get over a divorce. He is given one last chance as a principal of a ... read more »
  
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- - Jeff Seddon
  - Essex, England
  - 21 Jul 2005 at 22:48
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  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
  
  Report this review
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- - Brian Barker
  - birmingham uk
  - 02 Dec 2004 at 21:31
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- - 2
  - 0
  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
  
  Report this review
- 57073
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - Brian Barker
  - birmingham uk
  - 02 Dec 2004 at 21:31
- - 1
  - 0
  We Should All Have Principals Like This
  
  Story about a teacher (James Belushi)who has reached the end of the road as he tries to get over a divorce. He is given one last chance as a principal of a ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 126163
- - Jeff Seddon
  - Essex, England
  - 21 Jul 2005 at 22:48
- - 1
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  The principal
  
  Started unpromisingly, hero irritating, but improved vastly. A good struggle of good v evil. Enjoyable and well worth watching.
  
  Report this review
- 165625
- - a customer
  - Wales
  - 25 Oct 2005 at 12:07
- - 1
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  great
  
  the principal,what can you say about this film,it`s just belushi at his very best,i cant think that he will ever make a better film,it is great
  
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  - sheffield
  - 20 Sep 2007 at 10:39
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  Don't watch
  
  This has got to be the worst film I've ever watched. Very slow, a good story line wasted. Bad eighties film, bad acting. Watched to the end with the aid of ... read more »
  
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  - Nottingham, England
  - 25 Feb 2009 at 11:37

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  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 ...