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School Daze

Genre
Pop Culture
Debuted
November, 2020

School Daze is a 1988 American musical comedy-drama film, written and directed by Spike Lee, and starring Larry Fishburne, Giancarlo Esposito, and Tisha Campbell. Based in part on Spike Lee's experiences as a Morehouse student 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 weekend. 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. The second feature film by Spike Lee, School Daze was released on February 12, 1988 by Columbia Pictures.

Director Spike Lee
Produced by Spike Lee
Writer(s) Spike Lee
Starring Larry Fishburne, Giancarlo Esposito, Tisha Campbell, Kyme, Joe Seneca, Art Evans, Ellen Holly, Ossie Davis
Music Bill Lee
Cinematography Ernest Dickerson
Edited by Barry Alexander Brown
Production, company 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Released February 12, 1988
Running time 121 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $6.5 million
Box office $14,545,844
Netflix ID 60004109

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