School Daze

School Daze
School Daze
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Spike Lee
Written by	Spike Lee
Produced by	Spike Lee
Starring	Larry Fishburne; Giancarlo Esposito; Tisha Campbell; Kyme; Joe Seneca; Art Evans; Ellen Holly; Ossie Davis;
Cinematography	Ernest Dickerson
Edited by	Barry Alexander Brown
Music by	Bill Lee
Production; company	40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	February 12, 1988;
Running time	121 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$6.1 million
Box office	$14,545,844

School Daze is a 1988 American musical comedy film written and directed by Spike Lee and starring Lee along with Laurence Fishburne (credited as Larry 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 during the 1970s, 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.^[2]

^ "School Daze (1988)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved November 11, 2008.
^ Penrice, Ronda Racha. "Spike Lee to appear at 30th anniversary 'School Daze' screening at Fox". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved November 15, 2021.