Dangerous Minds
The life of Louanne Johnson, an ex-marine, who has been separated from her husband, as she is divorced, the thing that affects badly on her life, as she struggles against earning her livings, has been changed completely, after taking a temporary job as a high school teacher, as she struggles against dealing with the arrogant students.
8 April 1986, Orange County, California, USA
10 May 1966, Santa Clara County, California, USA
20 March 1974, Medellin, Antioquia, Colombia
19 July 1945, Rosenheim, Bavaria, Germany
July 2, 1970 in California, USA
5 April 1966, Oxnard, California, USA
2 May 1925, Willesden, London, England, UK
10 June 1973, New York, New York, USA
29 June 1968, England, UK
9 February 1990, Culver City, Los Angeles, California, USA
4 April 1960, Trinidad, British West Indies [now Trinidad and Tobago]
22 March 1977, Los Angeles, California, USA
16 April 1935, Manhattan, New York, USA
25 May 1933, London, England, UK
16 July 1969, Colombia
June 11, 2003
Horrible. A waste. How was this ever a hit?
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.
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.
December 26, 2006
None of it rings the slightest bit true; all of it insults the intelligence.
May 12, 2001
Pfeiffer gives a funny, scrappy performance that makes you feel a committed teacher's fire to make a difference.
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.
March 08, 2004
So whitebread I want to call everyone involved 'Urkle'.
January 01, 2000
Hackneyed, obvious and Lite, complete with happy ending.
January 01, 2000
Stay home and watch Welcome Back Kotter. It's more enlightening.
July 27, 2002
Platitudes, cliches, stereotypes, and ... oh yeah, a soundtrack!
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.
