Avildsen-directed flick Lean On Me. Starring Morgan Freeman as Joe Clark, a no nonsense principal charged with the task of revitalizing the endangered school, the movie contains many pivotal ...

Share In seventh grade in 1989, I met up with a group of friends at Evergreen Plaza on Pulaski Day, a school holiday, to see the movie “Lean on Me.” We cheered for Morgan Freeman, who played ...

Can you believe it’s been 25 years since the release of Lean on Me? The story of principal Joe ... High is still one of our all-time favorite movies. In honor of the milestone TV’s Dish ...

‘yes a movie is really being made.’” Lean On Me spent two weeks at No. 1 at the box office. By the end of its theatrical run, the film grossed over $30 million. The film also received ...

the high school principal who inspired the movie Lean on Me. Clark died at 82 on Tuesday in his Gainesville, Florida, home after a "long battle with illness," his family said in a statement Wednesday.