Higher Learning (1995) on Netflix
Malik Williams arrives at Columbus University on a track scholarship, along with Kristen Connor from Orange County and Remy from Boise. Fudge White challenges Malik on race and politics.
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Plot summary
At Columbus University, three freshmen begin their first semester. Malik Williams comes on a track scholarship and assumes his running will see him past his coursework, but Professor Maurice Phipps tells him in political science class that neither his race nor his speed earns him a different standard, and Fudge White, six years into his studies there, presses him about race and politics. Kristen Connor, from Orange County, is warned by Taryn, a lesbian feminist junior, about walking alone on campus at night; Billy McDonald rapes her one night, and she joins a women's group, where she grows close to Taryn. Remy, an engineering student from Boise, feels lost on a multicultural campus, and Scott Moss, who leads white supremacists living near the school, approaches him.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Higher Learning (1995)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Singleton was 25 years old when he made Higher Learning and said he was "chock full of everything that would concern young people: lesbianism, and racism, and everything I could put in that movie", calling it a great movie and a fun one to do.
- The soundtrack came out on John Singleton's own New Deal Music label through 550 Music/Epic Soundtrax on January 3, 1995, and peaked at number 39 on the Billboard 200 and number 9 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.
- Laurence Fishburne won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture for his role in the film, and Ice Cube was also nominated in the same category.
- The exterior shots and outdoor scenes were filmed on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles, while the interiors were shot at Sony Pictures Studios.
