School Of Rock

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	Jack Black	Dewey Finn
	Adam Pascal	Theo
	Lucas Papaelias	Neil
	Chris Stack	Doug
	Sarah Silverman	Patty Di Marco
	Mike White	Ned Schneebly
	Lucas Babin	Spider
	Joan Cusack	Rosalie Mullins
	Jordan-Claire Green	Michelle
	Veronica Afflerbach	Eleni
	Miranda Cosgrove	Summer Hathaway
	Joey Gaydos Jr.	Zack
	Robert Tsai	Lawrence
	Angelo Massagli	Frankie
	Kevin Alexander Clark	Freddy Jones
	Maryam Hassan	Tomika
	Caitlin Hale	Marta
	Cole Hawkins	Leonard
	Brian Falduto	Billy
	James Hosey	Marco
	Aleisha Allen	Alicia
	Zachary Infante	Gordon
	Becca Brown	Katie
	Jaclyn Neidenthal	Emily
	Suzzanne Douglas	Tomika's Mother

Crew View all

Director	Richard Linklater
Writer	Mike White
Producer	Scott Aversano, Steve Nicolaides, Scott Rudin
Musician	Craig Wedren
Photography	Rogier Stoffers

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Story Synopsis:
Dewey Finn (Black) is the guitarist and lead singer of a rock and roll band, and he plans on winning the upcoming battle-of-the-bands competition. His band feels they can’t win with him in their group, however, and replaces him with another singer. Dewey’s roommate Ned (White) informs him that he has to pay his share of the rent or he’ll be kicked out of his home as well, so Dewey needs to come up with a plan to make some money quick. When he takes a phone call meant for Ned, Dewey decides to pose as his roomie and accept the substitute teacher job the caller is offering. Teaching at the most prestigious elementary prep school in the country, Dewey is determined to get into the band competition one way or another. So, instead of concentrating on the ABC’s, he teaches the kids their Doe Ray Me’s and turns his classroom into "The School Of Rock." (Tricia Littrell)

DVD Picture:
The anamorphically enhanced 1.78 DVD picture offers nicely balanced colors that are rich and vibrant, with accurately rendered fleshtones, and deep blacks. Images are sharp and detailed, with nicely rendered textures and definition. There is a minor amount of edge enhancement noticed, and pixelization is also limited for a picture that is satisfying overall. (Suzanne Hodges)

Soundtrack:
As one can surmise from the film’s accompanying advertising campaign, the main emphasis of this movie centers around comedy and music. The Dolby® Digital 5.1-channel soundtrack faithfully pushes this concept forward with a very effective soundtrack mix. For the most part, the mix for this movie falls under the traditional auspices for a comedy. The front three screen channels contain the majority of the audio information with the front center channel housing all of the spoken dialogue. Where this movie diverges from the classical comedy surround sound mix is in the use of music within the presentation. At different points throughout the presentation, all of the five audio channels are in use. This is a far cry from usually having all of the audio information coming from just the front three channels. It’s nice to see a comedy that involves more of the surround field than just three channels. The use of LFE is infrequent, but doesn’t effect the soundtrack in a negative way. The climax of the film, in chapter 17, is the most aggressive and effective of all the chapters. (Jeffrey Kern)

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