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The Principal (1987)

Cast

  • james belushi movies
    James Belushi
    as Rick Latimer
  • rae dawn chong movies
    Rae Dawn Chong
    as Hilary Orozco
  • louis gossett jr. movies
    Louis Gossett Jr.
    as Jake Phillips
  • jacob vargas movies
    Jacob Vargas
    as Arturo Diego
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Genres & Description

Action Crime Drama Thriller

6.3 / 10

Rick Latimer is a teacher who gets a job as the principal of a school with a very bad reputation. In fact, his transfer there is a kind of punishment because he beat his wife's boyfriend. So, Rick finds himself in a school where drugs, knives and guns are very usual things...

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Comments on this trailer
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D Slam
Art imitating Lean on Me a few yrs later .... - @Saturday, November 10, 2018 4:59 AM

Francisca Osses
love this film - @Monday, May 28, 2018 1:45 AM

CIBO PARTNERS
always loved this movie - @Friday, May 4, 2018 8:34 PM

MiGrandeCazzo
Well, according to Jim... - @Tuesday, April 17, 2018 6:50 AM

אנוך מטטרון אנוך מטטרון
Big bad Bay Area 💪🏼 remember the 80’s and 90’s . Real Bay Area era - @Saturday, March 24, 2018 5:51 PM

Kuria K
rubbish! just another story about a 'white saviour' coming to save the minorities! racist! - @Thursday, January 25, 2018 4:26 PM

chefsfh
Oaktown - @Monday, January 22, 2018 6:22 AM

Lonnie prude
jim Belushi is a good actor - @Thursday, December 14, 2017 10:12 PM

BIG SEXXY77
This was a great Movie!!!! - @Monday, December 4, 2017 11:18 PM

Shafik Bashir
Very 80’s movie, its got all the cliché’s 😂 - @Monday, November 20, 2017 6:52 PM

Go Reds
Just your typical saturday night in Berkeley. - @Friday, October 20, 2017 10:30 AM

Joel Lopez
Buena pelicula pero estaria mas suave si estubiera en español - @Thursday, October 12, 2017 6:40 PM

pope quiet
up high , down low, too slow - haha I knew this was a hip teacher - @Thursday, October 5, 2017 9:53 PM

Nigel Belgrave
YOUR EXPELLED!!!! - @Friday, September 22, 2017 1:43 AM

Gaming Room
the principal is one of the ballsiest characters of all times - @Saturday, August 26, 2017 6:41 PM

Alan Martinez
classic movie. forgot all about it, James , was good in this. - @Sunday, July 2, 2017 4:56 AM

Edgar Arroyo
I like the way they made it suspenseful towards the end of the trailer. I had to watch the movie again right after lol - @Friday, November 25, 2016 8:35 PM

Dorian Glz
someone have the link of the movie? - @Friday, September 2, 2016 12:09 AM

Ronna
Were urban neighborhoods really this bad in the 80s? I was born in the 90s and raised in the 2000s so I wouldn't know - @Friday, July 22, 2016 11:18 AM

Michael Kenney
Don LaFontaine was legendary for voicing movie trailers!! - @Thursday, June 23, 2016 5:34 PM

Matthew Feroz
Wow, cant believe that my librarian wrote this entire script. THANK YOU MR. V - @Tuesday, June 14, 2016 1:39 AM

Danilo Lipinski
80´s movies... I so miss it - @Saturday, April 23, 2016 6:41 PM

Tom Thedutchguy
looks alright but i get the feeling that the writing is really shitty. specially with that last line in the trailer. - @Saturday, February 6, 2016 11:31 AM

ir killer
looks like a steven seagal movie - @Saturday, January 2, 2016 12:16 AM

Deepak Parecadan
lol.. i go to this school..northgate high...and the ironic thing is that it looks like a prison - @Thursday, December 17, 2015 1:46 AM

Martin Carrillo
don't look that shitty for james belushi flick! - @Wednesday, November 25, 2015 4:24 AM

Rick Astley
in a world where Jim Belushi is a pedophile and also your children's teacher... - @Saturday, October 24, 2015 6:00 PM

Robles Games
Love this fucking movie man! - @Tuesday, June 9, 2015 3:34 AM

Keith Jones
Great film. No classic but superb stuff if you want your brain to take a rest - @Sunday, November 16, 2014 11:44 PM

Nina Storm
esta es la futura escuela, por adultos irresponsables. - @Wednesday, September 3, 2014 9:49 PM

LIQUID EAGLE
Some scenes in trailer didn't make the final cut. Shame. - @Friday, August 15, 2014 2:44 AM

Justice Angel
Great movie - @Saturday, August 9, 2014 10:57 PM

IamMe4sho
I was an extra in this movie. It was filmed in Oakland,CA - @Friday, July 18, 2014 12:51 AM

Margo Duhon
I love this movie. - @Monday, July 14, 2014 5:15 AM

Ernest Adams
1987 - @Thursday, June 26, 2014 5:34 PM

shelly anne
2m 10s trailer nowdays your lucky to get 10sec's - @Tuesday, June 17, 2014 9:18 AM

jerryzumba
RECUERDO CUANDO EN CANAL 5 LOS VIERNES Y SABADOS PASABAN PELICULAS CLASICAS OCHENTERAS BUENISIMAS, COMO ESTA. - @Sunday, May 4, 2014 8:54 PM

chrisredfield200
Assisti esse filme uma vez na televisão. O Brasil precisa de professores como esse do filme para colocar os alunos em seus devidos lugares, pois o filme é exatamente o que acontece nas escolas públicas do Brasil. - @Saturday, March 29, 2014 4:59 PM

Lamont Byrd
Love this movie..just imagine your principal coming to work..with a honda shadow motorcycle..this movie desyroys lean on more..a principal who smoke cigatettes drink alchol amd has no food in his fridge...just beer...o.m.g. Plus rae dawn looks so sexy - @Sunday, March 2, 2014 6:18 AM

AngelofAnguish
I was, and still am, MORE impressed with Tom Berenger as the "Substitute" than James Belushi in this movie.  - @Sunday, February 16, 2014 5:24 AM

MMAFighter38
the trailer has a lot of scenes that aren't even in the movie. - @Wednesday, February 12, 2014 9:13 AM

sooperheep
Who died and gave Jim Belushi a career? ;) - @Sunday, February 9, 2014 4:47 PM

Jesse James
The film is excellent! It is a pity that these beasts are not washed, not when you do not understand the white culture and concepts!!! - @Wednesday, January 8, 2014 3:12 PM

Edson Pessoa
Great movie!!! no doubt!! - @Sunday, December 29, 2013 4:40 AM

Boogie Thug Rose
watching movie now..is she the young girl who gets caught selling dope in the bathroom? then THE PRINCIPAL goes to her home and becomes her tutor?..I thinks she is =) - @Friday, September 13, 2013 3:53 PM

Boogie Thug Rose
Eddie KING Jr!!!! - @Friday, September 13, 2013 3:45 PM

patricia vargas Navarro
Mi pelicula favorita de James Belushi. - @Sunday, September 8, 2013 3:14 AM

Chris Frantz
lmfao @ 1:53 - @Wednesday, July 24, 2013 9:33 AM

menno bruin
i have no idea who he is xd i only know him as Jim - @Thursday, June 20, 2013 12:57 PM

nycmac95
Oh look another white savior ahem I mean "teacher" comes to save criminal poc students.... -__- - @Sunday, April 21, 2013 1:33 AM

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