| | | She broke the rules... and changed their lives.
Features: DVD, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), French, Dubbed
Michelle Pfeiffer stars as former Marine-turned-high school teacher, Louanne Johnson, whose first teaching assignment is to a high school class of smart but tough students. As their new instructor, the feisty Ms. Johnson defies all the rules and creates her own curriculum that includes cajoling and bribing the kids into learning. More important, Johnson teaches the kids to believe in themselves and their potential despite the everyday challenges of growing up in the inner city.
DVD Features:
Dolby Digital 5.1 Audio
French Language Track -Dolby Surround
Includes "Gangsta's Paradise" performed by Coolio
1.85:1 Aspect Ratio
"Outstanding!" Rolling Stone
"The best performance of Michelle Pfeiffer's career!" Sneak Preview
Editor's Note
A Marine officer leaves her military career behind to become an inner-city English teacher. With a style all her own she gets her class of tough-as-nails kids to trust her and to believe in themselves. This true-life drama is based on "My Posse Don't Do Homework," a novel by educator LouAnne Johnson.
Plot Summary
The true story of one teacher's struggle to have a positive effect on her students' lives. | Ex-Marine LouAnne Johnson abandons her military career in order to pursue her dream of becoming an English teacher. When she is assigned to Parkmont High, a rough "inner-city" school, she soon finds that teaching English is going to be tougher than she expected. Clearly, her bored, surly, unhappy students would rather be anywhere else than in class. However, LouAnne tackles this obstacle, employing unconventional tactics to get through to the kids: she uses Bob Dylan's lyrics to teach poetry, rewards the students with candy bars, and even takes them out for an expensive dinner. Soon, LouAnne notices a change in her pupils, who are beginning to see school -- and life -- in a new light.
| Features | Dolby Surround Sound | | "Gangsta's Paradise" Performed By Coolio | | Chapter Search | | Widescreen Version | | English 5.1 Surround Dolby Digital | | French Language Track |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Buena Vista |
| Release Date: 8/5/2003 |
| Running Time: 99 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1995 | | Catalog ID: 16794 | | UPC: 00717951001924 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English, French Dubbed | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
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| | Professional Reviews | Premiere
"...[Pfeiffer gives] a strong, resourceful performance..." 02/01/1996 p.88Rolling Stone
"...Pfeiffer gives a funny, scrappy performance..." 08/24/1995 p.108-110 Variety
"...[An] earnest, sweet-natured inspirational drama....Dominguez, Harris and Santiago stir strong sympathy and show a good deal of promise..." 08/14/1995 San Francisco Chronicle 0 of 10
Remember To Sir With Love? Stand and Deliver? Up the Down Staircase? It's an old, reliable movie formula: Idealistic teacher braves the jungle of an inner-city classroom, battles apathy and hostility, and scores sweet victory with galvanized minds and newly melted hearts. It's contrived, it's hokey, but in Dangerous Minds, a Michelle Pfeiffer vehicle, it works surprisingly well. Pfeiffer plays LouAnne Johnson, an ex-Marine who took on some problem students at Carlmont High School in Belmont, inspired their interest in poetry and language, and wrote about her experiences in her 1992 book, My Posse Don't Do Homework (great title; they should've kept it for the film)... Smith knows how to draw the best from his actors, and Pfeiffer seems to enjoy herself in ways she hasn't onscreen before. She's playing with a bag of cliches -- feisty white chick takes on dope pushers and malcontents, transforms them with wisdom, love and hip smarts -- but she's so plucky and likable, you overlook the hokum and enjoy her journey. - Edward Guthmann
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