School of Rock

3.00
    School of Rock
    2003

    Synopsis

    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 BlackDewey Finn
    • Joan CusackRosalie Mullins
    • Mike WhiteNed Schneebly
    • Sarah SilvermanPatty Di Marco
    • Miranda CosgroveSummer Hathaway
    • Joey Gaydos Jr.Zack Mooneyham
    • Kevin Alexander ClarkFreddy Jones
    • Rivkah ReyesKatie
    • Robert TsaiLawrence
    • Maryam HassanTomika

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Entertainment Weekly

      The School of Rock was made by gifted veterans of the American indie scene, but it's still the most unlikely great movie of the year.
    • 100

      Newsweek

      It's a bravura, all-stops-out, inexhaustibly inventive performance. I don't know how much was improvised, and how much comes from White's sharp screenplay, but Black may never again get a part that displays his mad-dog comic ferocity to such brilliant effect. He, and the movie, kick ass.
    • 100

      Time

      Three of the hippest indie film princes make a perfect commercial comedy.
    • 90

      Film Threat

      School of Rock kicks ass. It's one movie that definitely goes to eleven.
    • 90

      New York Magazine (Vulture)

      Linklater, whose previous movies include "Slacker," "Before Sunrise," and "Waking Life," may be the most versatile director of his generation. School of Rock is his most unabashedly mainstream movie by far, and yet it’s commercial in the best way.
    • 80

      The Hollywood Reporter

      The film hits another comic mother lode in the byplay between Black and Cusack.
    • 80

      Village Voice

      Jack Black is consistently hilarious--and not just in his dreams of moshpit glory.
    • 80

      The A.V. Club

      Though tagged as the director's bid for commercial success, School Of Rock is as philosophical in its own way as "Slacker" or "Waking Life." It was made by people who not only know the music well enough to create magnificent flowcharts around it, but also understand how a simple, soul-stirring rock song can seem revolutionary.

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