Jack Black stars as a hell-raising guitarist with delusions of grandeur. Kicked out of his band and desperate for work, he impersonates a substitute teacher and turns a class of fifth grade high-achievers into high-voltage rock and rollers. Joan Cusack portrays the principal of the private school where Black is prepping the kids for a Battle of the Bands.
A filmmaker who is a veteran of comedic satire, Terry Gilliam of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," "Jabberwocky," "Time Bandits" and "12 Monkeys" fame, says his newest project featuring satire about wokeness may face heavy headwinds because President Donald Trump killed the movement.