Dangerous Minds
An ex-marine, Louanne Johnson, who has been divorced recently, struggles against earning her livings, the thing that leads her friend to bring a temporary job for her as a high school teacher, where she struggles against dealing with the arrogant students, but she intelligently, manages to win their trust.
4 April 1960, Trinidad, British West Indies [now Trinidad and Tobago]
July 2, 1970 in California, USA
10 May 1966, Santa Clara County, California, USA
22 May 1981, Bronx, New York, USA
22 March 1977, Los Angeles, California, USA
12 March 1960, Detroit, Michigan, USA
29 June 1968, England, UK
December 26, 2006
None of it rings the slightest bit true; all of it insults the intelligence.
June 11, 2003
Horrible. A waste. How was this ever a hit?
January 01, 2000
If only the filmmakers had used some subtlety in telling the story, they could have done right by the real LouAnne Johnson.
July 27, 2002
Platitudes, cliches, stereotypes, and ... oh yeah, a soundtrack!
January 01, 2000
Stay home and watch Welcome Back Kotter. It's more enlightening.
February 13, 2001
The tale screenwriter Ronald Bass came up with, and the way director John N. Smith tells it, is stereotypical, predictable and simplified to the point of meaninglessness.
January 01, 2000
The movie pretends to show poor black kids being bribed into literacy by Dylan and candy bars, but actually it is the crossover white audience that is being bribed with mind-candy in the form of safe words by the two Dylans.
January 01, 2000
Pfieffer is absurdly miscast: Sly Stallone would make a more plausible Mr. Chips than the frail, squeaky actress does a nine-year veteran of the Marine Corps.
March 08, 2004
So whitebread I want to call everyone involved 'Urkle'.
January 01, 2000
Hackneyed, obvious and Lite, complete with happy ending.
May 12, 2001
Pfeiffer gives a funny, scrappy performance that makes you feel a committed teacher's fire to make a difference.
August 28, 2002
Inspiring portrait of an inner city teacher who discovers that making students feel good about themselves brings learning alive in the classroom.
