The School of Rock (2003)

Cautiously Recommended

USA/Germany

Feature Film

Director: Richard Linklater

Writer: Mike White

Cinematographer: Rogier Stoffers

Composer: Craig Wedren

Cast: Jack Black, Joan Cusack, Mike White, Sarah Silverman, Joey Gaydos Jr., Miranda Cosgrove, Kevin Clark

Just kicked out of his own band and threatened with eviction by his flatmate (at the behest of his pushy girlfriend), Dewey Finn, a rock-obsessed drifter, lucks into a substitute teaching job at an elite prep school, initially with the intention of making a quick buck, but is soon transforming his charges into an anti-establishment, hard-rocking band of 10-year-old musicians, with the intent of entering a Battle of the Bands competition, in this generally pleasingly silly though terribly lightweight comedy, with a large, polarising central performance from Black. Iain.Stott