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5.3/10   2,429 votes
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Director:
Spike Lee
Writer:
Spike Lee (written by)
Contact:
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Release Date:
12 February 1988 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama | Musical more
Plot:
A not so popular young man wants to pledge to a popular fraternity at his historically black college. full summary | add synopsis
User Comments:
It's not a good movie because you didn't go to a Black school? more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Laurence Fishburne ... Dap

Giancarlo Esposito ... Julian

Tisha Campbell-Martin ... Jane Toussaint (as Tisha Campbell)
Kyme ... Rachel Meadows
Joe Seneca ... President McPherson
Ellen Holly ... Odrie McPherson
Art Evans ... Cedar Cloud

Ossie Davis ... Coach Odom

Bill Nunn ... Grady
James Bond III ... Monroe
Branford Marsalis ... Jordam

Kadeem Hardison ... Edge
Eric Payne ... Booker T. (as Eric A. Payne)

Spike Lee ... Half-Pint
Anthony Thompkins ... Doo-Doo Breath
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Additional Details

Runtime:
121 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Certification:
UK:15 (re-rating) (2006) | UK:18 (original rating) | Iceland:L | Australia:M | USA:R
Filming Locations:
Atlanta, Georgia, USA more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The fight scene at the end of the fraternity step show was not scripted. more
Goofs:
Audio/visual unsynchronized: When the Gamma Rays are singing I Don't Want to Be Alone Tonight, towards the end of the song, the audio and picture don't add up. The audio is slightly ahead. more
Quotes:
Jig-A-Boo's: Well, you're a wanna-be, wanna be better than me! more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Living Single: School Daze (#2.6)" (1994) more
Soundtrack:
I'm Buildin' Me A Home more

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11 out of 13 people found the following comment useful:-
It's not a good movie because you didn't go to a Black school?, 27 June 2006
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Author: Brightseat_Bully from United States

So what if you went to Harvard and not Hampton, this film is still well-shot, well-acted and damn funny. If you can't understand the light vs. dark, town vs. gown, Greeks vs. GDI conflicts, maybe you don't... under... stand... English... well. I never saw the movie in its entirety until I was about 20 (and pledging at an HBCU, but that's another story) but it just got better as I got older. This movie is like many of Spike's: it's for a group of people (Black ones) that rarely get to tell their own stories. If other people get it, super. On a sidenote, what's so "universal" about Dirty Dancing? I've never had to drop out of a contest because of my botched abortion that Lenny from Law & Order had to come help me out with. I've also never been a small, Jewish man in New York City, but people seem to find Woody Allen's movies "universal" enough. Why don't these issues come up with movies made by whi... (ahem) other filmmakers?

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