School of Rock

School of Rock

2003 "He just landed the gig of his life: 5th grade."
School of Rock
School of Rock

School of Rock

7.2 | 1h50m | PG-13 | en | Comedy

Fired from his band and hard up for cash, guitarist and vocalist Dewey Finn finagles his way into a job as a fifth-grade substitute teacher at a private school, where he secretly begins teaching his students the finer points of rock 'n' roll. The school's hard-nosed principal is rightly suspicious of Finn's activities. But Finn's roommate remains in the dark about what he's doing.

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7.2 | 1h50m | PG-13 | en | Comedy , Music | More Info
Released: October. 03,2003 | Released Producted By: Paramount , Scott Rudin Productions Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website: http://www.schoolofrockmovie.com
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Fired from his band and hard up for cash, guitarist and vocalist Dewey Finn finagles his way into a job as a fifth-grade substitute teacher at a private school, where he secretly begins teaching his students the finer points of rock 'n' roll. The school's hard-nosed principal is rightly suspicious of Finn's activities. But Finn's roommate remains in the dark about what he's doing.

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Cast

Jack Black , Joan Cusack , Mike White

Director

Adam Scher

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Paramount , Scott Rudin Productions

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IkhwanArif I'll only be reiterating what others have said, and what you've already guessed; is that this movie just works. By a lesser director, by a lesser writer, by another actor, School Of Rock might have become among the thousands of cheesy, Nickelodeon-esque, Disney-esque, tween movie. Thankfully, Mike White wrote such a charming though admittedly predictable story, and Richard Linklater steered the this ship safely to land; of a musician way past his time trying to make it big and somehow found inspiration in a classroom full of children of a stuffy school.Jack Black not only nailed his part, he owned it and killed it. Black is charismatic, enthusiastic, energetic and infectious. He is just fun to watch. Everybody else played their part well, even Joan Cusack who I think is underused. The best part here, must be the process of music making; what it rock, what does it mean to rock, and why rock and roll is so much fun. This movie is fun. And you won't be disappointed by it.
stormhawk2018 Dewey Finn: Dude, I service society by rocking, OK? I'm out there on the front lines liberating people with my music! "We don't need no education." School of Rock has been another go to movie for me for the last 7 or 8 years. For me, this is an easy winner because I am a Jack Black fan and because I love the music their playing. Black is a musician that can hold his own and the kids in the movie are great at their respected instrument. The film is funny, well-written by Mike White, and directed with surprising style by Richard Linklater. Like I said, Black is in the lead and he gives probably the best comedic performance of his life as Dewey Finn. School of Rock follows the misadventures of Dewey. He's a loser who is trying to make it big in the music industry. His band plays small bars and he lives with a friend and his friends girlfriend, mooching of them for rent. Dewey's friend at the request of his girlfriend tells him if he doesn't come up with rent, they are going to kick him out. More bad news comes in the form of Dewey getting kicked out of his band. He tries to rebound with a new band, but finding people isn't easy. When he takes a substitute teaching job, posing as his friend teacher, he meets a group of kids that can rock, and tries to use them to win the Battle of the Bands. This is a different type of movie for Linklater. I guess if you examine his film career, this would tie in most closely with Bad News Bears; except that School of Rock is much, much better. It also rings with great music much like his comedic stoner masterpiece Dazed and Confused did. School of Rock is just plain fun. It's hard not to have a good time watching Jack Black totally embrace a role like this. This is the Jack Black character. He is at his best when he plays himself, and Dewey Finn is just less profane Jack Black from Tenacious D. So seeing him here is just as much fun as watching him in Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny. A great, family friendly, music comedy from a great director and a cast of good musicians. The songs are catchy, the jokes funny, and the story clever. Yeah, it follows a pretty basic formula for its success, but you can't sent the luring power of the pit stops White take with his writing. The lessons in class, the lunchroom conversations, and just letting Black perform.
Semisonic I guess the concept behind School of Rock's story is old as the hills. A good-hearted but too much of a screw-around loser gets kicked out of his natural habitat and has to pretend to be someone else to get around people who have no prejudice against him. Then he screws around some more, doing antics that make you cringe, until his good-heartedness finally wins you over piece by piece, and then the happy ending ensues. Have fun, feel good, bye-bye!Well, Jack Black has a real talent for turning the "feel good" into "feel embarrassed". A good half of this film, when he's moping around and making idiotic jokes and faces, you really have to battle your instinct to shut your eyes and ears to avoid that horrible shame. Because when it comes to that, one can think of no man more obnoxious and annoying than Mr Black.But, luckily for us, School of Rock is not about our chubby narcissistic doofus. It's about the kids who he teaches while on the mission of impersonating his spineless roommate to earn some easy cash. The kids really steal the show, providing the film with enough character versatility and the real-world child issues. And despite being an abysmal teacher of proper things, Jack Black's infantile character manages to reach out to the kids, gain their trust and wake up the talents which the "proper" education tries so hard to mould into something useful, convenient but utterly generic. And from then on, the students take over and lead this unlikely alliance to something that ultimately makes this flick enjoyable and even fun.The "everyone is special, you just need to find your true self" trope gets kinda worn out with time, especially since the real world is not as shiny as it is in the movies, and not everyone is just a vessel of pure talent waiting to be unearthed. But this time, School of Rock managed to nail this theme without getting cloying or force-feeding us that political correctness. And although i would hardly want my kids (if i had any) to be tutored by a lazy bum like Dewey Finn, i'd definitely show them this liberating piece of teen spirit. Because self-confidence is what kids need the most to grow into someone mentally healthy and capable to love and respect himself. And what could be a better source of self-confidence than a sloppy fat guy basking in the self-propagated glory of a rock star, especially if that's what he is really good at.
alexwilli-47834 I don't care what other reviewers say, this is a horrible movie. I'm willing to suspend my disbelief slightly in the name of 'entertainment' but it's impossible to do that with this film. To consider a few examples: 1) Dewey doesn't provide any identification to the school upon his arrival nor is he asked for any - really?? 2) The police don't take any action against Dewey despite his deliberate and repeated acts of fraud, identity theft, child abduction and child engagement and he's even able to work unsupervised with children again?- really??? 3)He has no teaching assistants in his class and he doesn't have any member of the senior member team observe him(apart from a small bit which is clearly for the purposes of plot development) 4) are we really supposed to believe that the parents seriously care about their children's education if they wait until the parents evening to voice their concerns? Wouldn't the lack of academic homework or the fact that they would have been giving vague answers about what they had done at school that day have rung alarm bells earlier - particularly as it was a private and not a public school?(and I find it impossible to believe that none of the children would have told their parents about the band) This point is made even worse by the fact that the parents of Lawrence knew he's been asked to listen to the album, which probably causes a safeguarding concern by itself as its probably not age appropriate music for a child of his age to listen to.5) A battle of the bands completion can sell out a medium sized venue at 2/3 in the afternoon on a weekday? Doesn't anybody in this film have a job? 6) the promoter gave them the spot on the bill without even listening to them - for he knew they could been absolutely rubbish 7) The police weren't called when all the children went missing and the concert went ahead anyway - a quick phone call to social services could have got the place shut down in a second.8) the field trip was still booked - this is the most ridiculous plot hole of all because (a) The bus would have been booked via the school and I find it hard to believe it wouldn't have been cancelled immediately once Dewey's deception was found out and (b) The Bus driver hasn't been told about the deception or even found out about it(I would imagine it would have made at least the local news or got around the town pretty quickly).9) How on earth does Summer know where Dewey lives??? - either he gave her his home address(why) or she got it from the school(how) - both of which are data protection and safeguarding issues.Yes, OK... it's 'just a film' but just take a moment to think about what the subtext of this 'film' is actually saying about these various issues