School of Rock

School of Rock is a 2003 American musical comedy movie starring Jack Black.

School of Rock
Directed by	Richard Linklater
Written by	Mike White
Produced by	Scott Aversano Steve Nicolaides Scott Rudin
Starring	Jack Black Joan Cusack Mike White Sarah Silverman Miranda Cosgrove
Cinematography	Rogier Stoffers
Edited by	Sandra Adair
Music by	Craig Wedren
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	October 3, 2003
Running time	109 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$35,000,000 (estimated)[1]
Box office	$81,261,177 (domestically) $131,282,949 (worldwide)

Plot

Dewey Finn (Black) has been kicked out of his band. His roommate is a substitute teacher. Finn finds one of his requests for a private school and goes in his roommate's place as he needs the money for rent. He soon finds out that the school, in Woodbury, New York, has music lessons, so he enlists the class to become his band. They plan to perform at Battle of the Bands. However, his roommate's girlfriend finds out that Finn was impersonating her boyfriend and gets him kicked off the job. Finn is down until the kids get their own school bus, pick Finn up, and play at the concert. The band loses to another one, but Finn establishes a school for rock, and the kids come over to his place to take lessons.

Sequel

On July 14, 2008, the School of Rock 2 sequel was confirmed.^[2] In 2012, Jack Black said that a sequel is unlikely.