Dangerous Minds
The movie revolves around Louanne Johnson, an ex-marine, hired as a teacher in a high-school in a poor area of the city, where most of her students were African-American and Latino teenagers from East Palo Alto, a poverty-stricken, racially segregated, economically deprived city at the opposite end of the school district.
15 March 1974, Lajas, Puerto Rico
16 July 1969, Colombia
25 May 1933, London, England, UK
10 June 1973, New York, New York, USA
5 April 1966, Oxnard, California, USA
22 April 1951, New York City, New York, USA
22 March 1977, Los Angeles, California, USA
4 April 1960, Trinidad, British West Indies [now Trinidad and Tobago]
5 January 1924, Chicago, Illinois, USA
7 May 1971, Hawthorne, New Jersey, USA
22 May 1981, Bronx, New York, USA
19 July 1945, Rosenheim, Bavaria, Germany
6 June 1974, Manhattan Beach, California, USA
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.
July 27, 2002
Platitudes, cliches, stereotypes, and ... oh yeah, a soundtrack!
January 01, 2000
Hackneyed, obvious and Lite, complete with happy ending.
March 08, 2004
So whitebread I want to call everyone involved 'Urkle'.
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.
December 26, 2006
None of it rings the slightest bit true; all of it insults the intelligence.
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.
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.
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.
May 12, 2001
Pfeiffer gives a funny, scrappy performance that makes you feel a committed teacher's fire to make a difference.
