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Higher Learning is a 1995 drama film, starring Omar Epps, Kristy Swanson, Ice Cube, Busta Rhymes, Jennifer Connelly, Michael Rapaport, Laurence Fishburne and Randall Batinkoff. It also featured model Tyra Banks' first performance in a theatrical movie.

Fishburne won an Image Award for "Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture" for his performance; Ice Cube was also nominated for the award.

UCLA filled in for the fictional college, Columbus University, the movie is set around in some of the exterior scenes.

In addition to "Higher", performed by Ice Cube, the soundtrack includes performances of newer material by OutKast, Liz Phair, Tori Amos and Rage Against the Machine, as well as older hits from Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, Al Green, and Cotton Mather.

Plot summary

Three freshman students embark on their first semester at fictitious Columbus University, where, in addition to normal adolescent problems, they're also confronted with serious prejudice, intolerance, racism and sexism among the student body. Former high school track star, Malik (Omar Epps), learns that as long as he keeps winning races the university will support him, but as far as his academic life is concerned, they don't care a bit whether he learns anything at college or not. Kristin Conner (Kristy Swanson), a middle-class white girl from Orange County, discovers that she is ill-prepared for college life and in matters sexual she finds that the male students don't always accept "no" for an answer. She also finds that her own sexual proclivity is not as clear-cut as she'd always imagined. Remy (Michael Rapaport), a quiet kid from Idaho who has no social skills, turns to the only group who'll have him--the skinheads. He's so grateful for their acceptance that he finds he'll do anything to stay in their good graces.

Trivia

Most of the Neo-Nazi skinheads characters were played by Jewish actors.

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