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Higher Learning (Blu-ray)
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 8 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 5, 2001
- Originally Released: 1994
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Omar Epps, Ice Cube, Kristy Swanson, Michael Rapaport, Jennifer Connelly & Laurence Fishburne | |
Performer: | Jason Wiles, Tyra Banks, Busta Rhymes, Regina King, Cole Hauser, Jay R. Ferguson, Andrew Bryniarski, Adam Goldberg, J. Trevor Edmond, Bridgette Wilson, Kari Wuhrer & Randall Batinkoff | |
Directed by | John Singleton | |
Edited by | Bruce Cannon | |
Screenwriting by | John Singleton | |
Composition by | Stanley Clarke | |
Produced by | John Singleton & Paul Hall | |
Director of Photography: | Peter Lyons Collister |
Entertainment Reviews:
...[The] cast is solid....Ice Cube scores effectively....Fishburne is all commanding charisma...
Variety
A stylish, intelligent film-maker, Singleton interweaves the threads of his demographic tapestry with assurance, passion and a welcome awareness of the complexities of the college community's contradictory impulses towards integration and separatism.
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Time Out
Higher Learning has a great many things on its mind, which immediately places it in a rather exclusive category of American films these days.
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Variety
The film lapses into polarized melodrama but it's a handsome piece, displaying a fair understanding of our desperate need to belong.
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Film4
Higher Learning is often clichéd, unfocused and didactic. But Singleton has a goal most of his contemporaries have given up on: He wants to make a movie that makes a difference.
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Rolling Stone
Rating: 2/4 --
Everyone here, from beer-swilling white fraternity boys to rap-loving black students harassed by the campus police, can be judged at face value. Everyone is exactly what he or she seems.
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New York Times
Rating: C --
Despite some likable performances (Epps is especially winning), the drama in Higher Learning is constricted, hemmed in by Singleton's compulsion to view his characters as walking paradigms of racial and sexual politics.
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Entertainment Weekly
Product Description:
The third installment in John Singleton's trilogy about South Central Los Angeles, HIGHER LEARNING examines mid-1990s university politics from racial, sexual, and economic standpoints. At fictional Columbus University (where a statue of the explorer stands witness to the dominant culture's supremacy), three freshman arrive to find a campus ready to explode. Malik (Omar Epps) wavers among the influences of revolution-preaching super-senior Fudge (Ice Cube), no-excuses Professor Phipps (Laurence Fishburne), and his motivated girlfriend Deja (Tyra Banks). Kristen (Kristy Swanson), another neophyte, is thrown into sexual confusion when she meets a charismatic lesbian, while the socially inept Remy (Michael Rapaport) can only fit in with the local skinheads. The storylines cross and complicate as each character tries to discover what's right, but the potential for violence grows with every wrong choice they make. Singleton recruited an emsemble of considerable talent to flesh out the complex plot, which allows him to deal efficiently with a breadth of concerns without preaching.
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- Sales Rank: 34,807
- UPC: 043396067684
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