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Hard Lessons
Hard Lessons
Hard Lessons
1986
Drama, Biography
TV Movie
1h 40m
He Risked It All To Make The Grade.

Directed by:

Eric Laneuville
Eric-Laneuville
36 total credits
Eric Laneuville has 36 credits at Criticker, including: The Omega Man, The Mentalist, L.A. Confidential, Grimm and The Client List

Writer:

Charles Johnson
Charles-Johnson
9 total credits
Charles Johnson has 9 credits at Criticker, including: Beyond Atlantis, Hammer, The Monkey Hustle, Hard Lessons and Mean Mother

Starring:

Denzel Washington
Denzel-Washington
69 total credits
Tall, strikingly handsome leading man of films and television in the 1980s and 1990s, Denzel Washington was born in 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York. He was the middle child of the 3 children of a Pentecostal minister father and a beautician mother. After graduating from high school, Denzel enrolled at Fordham University intent on a career in journalism...(imdb)
,
Earl Billings
Earl-Billings
13 total credits
Earl Billings has 13 credits at Criticker, including: Antwone Fisher, Stakeout, One False Move, Larger Than Life and Jimmy Hollywood
,
Irma P. Hall
Irma-P-Hall
28 total credits
Irma P. Hall has 28 credits at Criticker, including: Collateral, Patch Adams, The Ladykillers, Backdraft and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
,
Lynn Whitfield
Lynn-Whitfield
38 total credits
Lynn Whitfield has 38 credits at Criticker, including: Stepmom, Head of State, In the Army Now, The Rebound and Gone Fishin'
,
Richard Masur
Richard-Masur
52 total credits
Richard Masur has 52 credits at Criticker, including: The Thing, My Girl, Risky Business, Encino Man and Multiplicity
,
Akosua Busia
Akosua-Busia
14 total credits
Akosua Busia grew up in Ghana, and began her acting career at the age of 16, attending London's Central School of Speech and Drama on scholarship. Her first acting role was as Juliet in an otherwise white cast performing Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet at Oxford University, where her siblings were studying. The daughter of Kofi Abrefa Busia, the ex-prime minister of the Republic of Ghana, Akosua is the daughter of a prince of the royal family of Wenchi, a subgroup of the Ashanti. Akosua
,
Brent Jennings
Brent-Jennings
27 total credits
Brent Jennings has 27 credits at Criticker, including: Moneyball, Witness, Red Heat, Another 48 Hrs. and The Serpent and the Rainbow
,
Virginia Capers
Virginia-Capers
19 total credits
Virginia Capers has 19 credits at Criticker, including: The Toy, What's Love Got to Do with It, Big Jake, Lady Sings the Blues and The Great White Hope
,
Ray Buktenica
Ray-Buktenica
3 total credits
Ray Buktenica has 3 credits at Criticker, including: The Jayne Mansfield Story, Hard Lessons and Take My Life... Please!/Devil's Alphabet/The Library
,
Terrance Ellis
Terrance-Ellis
2 total credits
Terrance Ellis has 2 credits at Criticker, including: Hard Lessons and Guilty as Charged
,
Travis Davis
Travis-Davis
1 total credit
Travis Davis has just 1 credit at Criticker: Hard Lessons

Genres:

Drama, Biography

AKA:

The George McKenna Story

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Hard Lessons

1986
Drama, Biography
TV Movie
1h 40m
Avg Percentile 39.59% from 11 total ratings

Ratings & Reviews

(11)
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Rated 09 Jun 2016
2
15th
This is exactly as goofy as you would expect and hope for a made-for-TV movie about a gang-infested high school starring a young Denzel Washington as a principal and leader of men. How the hell did they score Herbie Hancock for the soundtrack?
Rated 22 Mar 2016
70
36th
An honest story about a man who wants to make a change in a community that many people gave up on. Denzel Washington does a great job of showing passion and courage in his role as George McKenna. The story is a good look at what one man can do to change the world around him. For a TV movie, Hard Lessons didn't pull too many punches. I'm sure this movie was hard to stomach during 80's America but I'm sure it did a lot of good too. Good movie. Good message.

Cast & Info

Directed by:

Eric Laneuville
Eric-Laneuville
36 total credits
Eric Laneuville has 36 credits at Criticker, including: The Omega Man, The Mentalist, L.A. Confidential, Grimm and The Client List

Writer:

Charles Johnson
Charles-Johnson
9 total credits
Charles Johnson has 9 credits at Criticker, including: Beyond Atlantis, Hammer, The Monkey Hustle, Hard Lessons and Mean Mother

Starring:

Denzel Washington
Denzel-Washington
69 total credits
Tall, strikingly handsome leading man of films and television in the 1980s and 1990s, Denzel Washington was born in 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York. He was the middle child of the 3 children of a Pentecostal minister father and a beautician mother. After graduating from high school, Denzel enrolled at Fordham University intent on a career in journalism...(imdb)
,
Earl Billings
Earl-Billings
13 total credits
Earl Billings has 13 credits at Criticker, including: Antwone Fisher, Stakeout, One False Move, Larger Than Life and Jimmy Hollywood
,
Irma P. Hall
Irma-P-Hall
28 total credits
Irma P. Hall has 28 credits at Criticker, including: Collateral, Patch Adams, The Ladykillers, Backdraft and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
,
Lynn Whitfield
Lynn-Whitfield
38 total credits
Lynn Whitfield has 38 credits at Criticker, including: Stepmom, Head of State, In the Army Now, The Rebound and Gone Fishin'
,
Richard Masur
Richard-Masur
52 total credits
Richard Masur has 52 credits at Criticker, including: The Thing, My Girl, Risky Business, Encino Man and Multiplicity
,
Akosua Busia
Akosua-Busia
14 total credits
Akosua Busia grew up in Ghana, and began her acting career at the age of 16, attending London's Central School of Speech and Drama on scholarship. Her first acting role was as Juliet in an otherwise white cast performing Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet at Oxford University, where her siblings were studying. The daughter of Kofi Abrefa Busia, the ex-prime minister of the Republic of Ghana, Akosua is the daughter of a prince of the royal family of Wenchi, a subgroup of the Ashanti. Akosua
,
Brent Jennings
Brent-Jennings
27 total credits
Brent Jennings has 27 credits at Criticker, including: Moneyball, Witness, Red Heat, Another 48 Hrs. and The Serpent and the Rainbow
,
Virginia Capers
Virginia-Capers
19 total credits
Virginia Capers has 19 credits at Criticker, including: The Toy, What's Love Got to Do with It, Big Jake, Lady Sings the Blues and The Great White Hope
,
Ray Buktenica
Ray-Buktenica
3 total credits
Ray Buktenica has 3 credits at Criticker, including: The Jayne Mansfield Story, Hard Lessons and Take My Life... Please!/Devil's Alphabet/The Library
,
Terrance Ellis
Terrance-Ellis
2 total credits
Terrance Ellis has 2 credits at Criticker, including: Hard Lessons and Guilty as Charged
,
Travis Davis
Travis-Davis
1 total credit
Travis Davis has just 1 credit at Criticker: Hard Lessons

Genres:

Drama, Biography

AKA:

The George McKenna Story

Country:

USA

Language:

English
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