Storyline
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
Amy Sedaris, Nicky Katt, Jack Black, Sarah Silverman, Frank Whaley, Joan Cusack, Aleisha Allen, Mike White, Miranda Cosgrove, Sharon Washington, MacIntyre Dixon, Joanna Adler, Kathleen McNenny, Heather Goldenhersh, Adam Pascal, Robert Lin, Carlos Velazquez, Lee Wilkof, Chris Stack, Joey Gaydos Jr., Kevin Alexander Clark, Maryam Hassan, Lucas Babin, Jordan-Claire Green, Veronica Afflerbach, Robert Tsai, Angelo Massagli, Caitlin Hale, Cole Hawkins, Brian Falduto, James Hosey, Zachary Infante, Rebecca Brown, Jaclyn Neidenthal, Suzzanne Douglas, Eron Otcasek, Kimberly Grigsby, Kate McGregor-Stewart, Wally Dunn, Tim Hopper, Michael Dominguez-Rudolph, Crash Cortez, John Highsmith, Timothy "Speed" Levitch, Scott Graham, Kim Brockington, Marty Murphy, Barry Shurchin, Mary Fortune, Mandy Siegfried, Elisa Pugliese, Carlos J. Da Silva, Ian O'Malley, Chris Line, Kyle Meaney, Lauren Adler, Kelly Anne Burns, Leanne Cabrera, Catherine A. Callahan, Lucas Papaelias, Cedric Cannon, Mike Clemente, Anivile Daniel, Jane DeNoble, Caileigh Scott, Karen Nazarov, Riley G. Matthews Jr., Jada Montemarano, Mateo Moreno, Lian Moy, Ryan O'Connor, Scott Ross, Johnny Sullivan, Jamie Vergan, Joe Wachowski
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Reviews
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
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
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.
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