The Principal
Movie • 1987
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Burglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick Latimer bargained for. Gangs fight to control the school using knives - even guns - when they have to. When Latimer and the head of security try to clean up the school and stop the narcotics trade, they run up against a teenage mafia. A violent confrontation on the campus leads to a deadly showdown with the drug dealer's gang, and one last chance for Latimer to save his career... and his life.
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Attempted but it is stopped.
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One of the teachers is assaulted after school by a student. Jim Belushi bursts in the classroom on a motorcycle and stops it.
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Teen characters are beaten up by adult teachers a couple times.
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Is there excessive gore?
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Fighting and one person is shot but it isn't really graphic.
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Jim's character looks at a female students bare leg with binoculars but it's implied he was looking at what a male student was looking at rather than for his own gain. The male student was looking backward at the girls leg.
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Not so much mentioned as shown almost happening on screen.
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A teen character is shot on screen (non graphic).
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Belushi gets jumped by students. Female teacher gets beaten and assaulted by a student. Big fight scene at the end with students and Belushi and Lou Gossett.
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Is there audio gore?
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Fighting sounds but very exaggerated and not realistic. Think "pshh!" "pap!" type noises.
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A student is dropped through a window and hanging by his feet.
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A glass ceiling suddenly smashes very loudly in one scene.
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Jim Belushi makes a comment to a student telling her to wear a bra because she wasn't getting a better grade.
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A white student has clearly painted some of his black whilst wearing a balaclava. Particularly around the eyes and mouth. When he removes the balaclava it's shown he didn't paint his entire face, however.
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A teacher is attacked and they say she fractured her wrist. You don't see it, you see her afterwards wearing a sling.
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Is there gun violence?
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Victor chases Belushi in a car with a gun. At the end of the movie, Victor pulls a gun on Belushi.
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Black and Latino characters are depicted as gang bangers and drug dealers.
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Is there hate speech?
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There are discussions of blacks vs whites in terms of territory and gangs.
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A small side character is killed, however.
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A woman is brutally attacked by a male character.
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When Victor comes into the high school to make good on his threat to kill the principal, he and other students stalk him in the hallway and girls shower room.
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Does the black guy die first?
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Technically, a black guy is the only person to die in the entire movie. He isn't a main character though.
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Jim Belushi copes with bs by getting drunk.
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A small character is shot.
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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Someone was beaten by fellow students but it's due to gang politics rather than bullying.
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Emile is in the hospital after bring beaten and dropped through a skylight. Jim Belushi goes to visit him.
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A woman shouts/screams "no" whilst being chased.
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Throughout the movie, kids are smoking weed in the hallways.
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Victor chases Jim Belushi in a car, Belushi is riding a motorcycle.
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They corner Jim Belushi in the girls shower and turn all of them on and start slamming the stall doors to confuse him on where they are.
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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Mild swearing.
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Though it is mentioned that a male student was arrested but jumped bail.
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