"Lean on Me" Twenty Years Later - Netflix Review

We saw this last night while channel surfing. It is hard to believe it's been twenty years since Morgan Freeman made this film. It is a rah-rah approach to the problems of the inner city schools, though, and time has proved the problem is more complicated, but Freeman is a joy to watch. His great sense of warmth and dignity may well be the reason we (some of us) feel comfortable with a black President. The story seems a little simplistic now -- for a real depiction of the problem of the decaying inner city school and the hapless students and teachers, you have to see "The Wire" -- season Four I think. Still, we enjoyed every minute of "Lean on Me" last night. The subject was discipline, not actual learning, but we are always suckers for this kind of story. OCT09