Lean On Me is the true story of a high school principal named Joe Clark, who armed him with a bullhorn and a Lousiville slugger and slammed the door on losers at Eastside High in Paterson, New Jersey. Brought in to save the school, he chained the doors to keep troublemakers out and strivers in. Some parents and teachers fough him. But many kids loved him. He turned the school around and his achievement became a national triumph. Morgan Freeman triumphs in the exciting story of Joe Clark, the controversial get-tough educator who turned his downtrodden New Jersey school around.