The School of Rock (2003)

The movie that has sent more kids to a guitar shop than any other. Jack Black's broke, freshly fired rocker talks his way into a substitute teaching job and turns a fifth-grade class at a strict private school into a band, complete with roadies, a lighting crew and a manager. The detail that makes it work: the young cast really sang and played their own instruments, so the rehearsal scenes have the wobble and thrill of actual kids figuring it out. Richard Linklater keeps Black's mania pointed at something sincere, a love of rock as a way to be loud and brave, and the final battle of the bands set is a proper payoff. Ideal for a family movie night with a budding drummer in the house.