Morgan Freeman is headmaster Joe Clark in this moral drama based on the true story of the man who joined East-side High to sort out the drug-run school, and made the cover of Time(ital) magazine in the process.
Despite wielding a baseball bat at some of his less eager pupils, Freeman still manages to portray Clark as a caring kinda guy, and its his performance that saves the film from overdosing on saccharine sentimentality.
