School of Rock (2003) movie poster

School of Rock (2003)

"He just landed the gig of his life: 5th grade."
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👍 87%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 87%
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Runtime
1h 50m
Rated
PG-13
Country
United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
7.1/10 (6,080 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
92%
Metacritic
82

Cast

Jack Black as Dewey Finn · 73% avg
Joan Cusack as Rosalie Mullins · 73% avg
Mike White as Ned Schneebly · 69% avg
Sarah Silverman as Patty Di Marco · 72% avg
Miranda Cosgrove as Summer Hathaway · 74% avg
Joey Gaydos Jr. as Zack
Kevin Alexander Clark as Freddy Jones
Rivkah Reyes as Katie

Is School of Rock good?

Yes. 87% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 87%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#286 / 2672 · Comedy
Rank in its year
#24 / 149 · 2003
Rank among its director's films

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

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 straight-A students the finer points of rock 'n' roll and the power of sticking it to the man. But as the school’s stern principal closes in and the Battle of the Bands looms, Dewey risks everything to prove that rock ’n’ roll can change lives. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

School of Rock is a 2003 American comedy directed by Richard Linklater. When Dewey discovers that his students are musically talented, he secretly transforms the class into a rock band, teaching them the history and spirit of rock and roll while preparing them for a Battle of the Bands competition — all while concealing the scheme from the school's strict principal, played by Joan Cusack. Jack Black's performance was pure, unfiltered rock-and-roll enthusiasm, and his genuine musical ability — he could actually play guitar and sing — gave the comedy authenticity.

The child actors, many of whom were actual musicians, performed their own instruments on screen and in the film's soundtrack. Richard Linklater's direction was unusually structured for the famously improvisational filmmaker, but he gave Black freedom within scenes that resulted in some of the actor's most memorably manic moments. School of Rock earned $131 million worldwide on a $35 million budget.

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What Reddit Thinks

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Drummer from School of Rock (Kevin Clark), dead at 32
Top comment: "Hit by a car while biking :( RIP. Loved him in School of Rock, Freddy was such a fun character...."
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School of Rock is so good
Hadn’t seen it since it came out but man that movie holds up so so well. Jack Black kills it and all of the child actors do a great job. The movie... Read on Reddit →
Top comment: ""no, that means I was drunk yesterday!""
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