---
title: 'School Daze (1988)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Spike Lee'
released: '1988-02-12'
runtime_minutes: 121
genres:
  - 'Music'
  - 'Comedy'
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/school-daze-1988'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096054/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# School Daze (1988)

1988 · 121 min · Music, Comedy, Drama · United States


## Synopsis

School Daze is a 1988 American musical comedy-drama film written and directed by Spike Lee and starring Lee along with Laurence Fishburne, Giancarlo Esposito, and Tisha Campbell. Released on February 12, 1988, by Columbia Pictures as Lee's second feature film, and based partly on his experiences as a student at Morehouse College in the Atlanta University Center, it is a story about undergraduates in a fraternity and sorority clashing with some of their classmates at a historically black college during homecoming week. It also touches upon issues of colorism, elitism, classism, political activism, hazing, groupthink, female self-esteem, social mobility, and hair texture bias within the African-American community.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Spike Lee](https://cinepixo.com/people/spike-lee)
- **Screenplay:** [Spike Lee](https://cinepixo.com/people/spike-lee)
- **Producer:** [Spike Lee](https://cinepixo.com/people/spike-lee), [Monty Ross](https://cinepixo.com/people/monty-ross)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Bill Lee](https://cinepixo.com/people/bill-lee-2)
- **Director of Photography:** [Ernest Dickerson](https://cinepixo.com/people/ernest-dickerson)
- **Editor:** [Barry Alexander Brown](https://cinepixo.com/people/barry-alexander-brown)

## Cast

- [Ossie Davis](https://cinepixo.com/people/ossie-davis)
- [Roger Guenveur Smith](https://cinepixo.com/people/roger-guenveur-smith)
- [Kasi Lemmons](https://cinepixo.com/people/kasi-lemmons)
- [Cylk Cozart](https://cinepixo.com/people/cylk-cozart)
- [Bill Nunn](https://cinepixo.com/people/bill-nunn)
- [Jasmine Guy](https://cinepixo.com/people/jasmine-guy)
- [Laurence Fishburne](https://cinepixo.com/people/laurence-fishburne)
- [Joe Seneca](https://cinepixo.com/people/joe-seneca)
- [Spike Lee](https://cinepixo.com/people/spike-lee)
- [Alva Rogers](https://cinepixo.com/people/alva-rogers)
- [Darryl M. Bell](https://cinepixo.com/people/darryl-m-bell)
- [Cassi Davis](https://cinepixo.com/people/cassi-davis)
- [Leonard L. Thomas](https://cinepixo.com/people/leonard-l-thomas)
- [Dominic Hoffman](https://cinepixo.com/people/dominic-hoffman)
- [Cinqué Lee](https://cinepixo.com/people/cinque-lee)

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