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School of Rock(2003)
Released
2003 · FILM

School of Rock

A down‑on‑his‑luck rocker impersonates a substitute teacher at a strict prep school to pay overdue rent, but must channel his wild stage energy into inspiring misfit students before his true identity—and his band’s future—crash spectacularly.

“He just landed the gig of his life: 5th grade.”

Directed by
Richard Linklater
Written by
Mike White
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
109 min
ComedyMusic

Synopsis

Desperate for money after being fired from his band, guitarist and vocalist Dewey Finn takes a job as a fifth-grade substitute teacher at a private school. While maintaining his position, he secretly introduces his high-achieving students to the fundamentals of rock 'n' roll and the philosophy of challenging authority. As the school's strict principal becomes suspicious and the Battle of the Bands approaches, Dewey puts everything on the line to demonstrate the transformative power of rock 'n' roll.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 26

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Sandra AdairShot by Rogier StoffersScored by Craig WedrenDesigned by Jeremy Conway

Box Office

2003 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.7× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$131.1M

Budget$35.0M
Worldwide gross$131.1M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $81.3M — 62% of worldwide · International: $49.8M (38%)

Opening weekend: $19.6M — 24% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $24.2M — 30% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,614 theaters

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • School of Rockde
  • The School of Rockde
  • Escuela de rockes
  • Rock Academyfr

Companies

ProductionParamount Pictures, Scott Rudin Productions, Munich Film Partners & Company (MFP)

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