School Daze
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- Larry Fishburne
- Giancarlo Esposito
- Tisha Campbell
- Joe Seneca
- Art Evans
- Ellen Holly
- Kyme
- Ossie Davis
- Spike Lee
- Branford Marsalis
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Although the film has big structural problems and leaves a lot of loose ends, there was never a moment when it didn’t absorb me, because I felt as if I was watching the characters talk to one another, instead of to me.
School Daze is, if nothing else, a compelling time capsule of racial politics in the late ‘80s, ethnographically sealed-off in a hothouse micro-environment (an all-black college campus) that’s as constrictive as Lee’s varying plot threads and stylistic whims are profuse.
Neither this anger nor Mr. Lee's daring is ever given free rein. Instead of a sharp satire or even an Animal House variation (since fraternity life is central to its story), School Daze is a collection of musical numbers, dramatic episodes, attempts at parody and cinematic wild cards, bound together only loosely by Mr. Lee's prevailing sense of outrage.