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Dangerous Minds
Upon her divorce, an ex-marine, who lives in a small town, Louanne Johnson, struggles against earning her livings, the thing that leads her friend to bring her a job as a high school teacher, where she faces many challenges in coping with the arrogant students, but she manages to win their trust.
15 March 1974, Lajas, Puerto Rico
6 June 1974, Manhattan Beach, California, USA
July 2, 1970 in California, USA
7 May 1971, Hawthorne, New Jersey, USA
5 January 1924, Chicago, Illinois, USA
22 March 1977, Los Angeles, California, USA
10 March 1968, Seaside, California, USA
9 February 1990, Culver City, Los Angeles, California, USA
16 July 1969, Colombia
10 June 1973, New York, New York, USA
March 08, 2004
So whitebread I want to call everyone involved 'Urkle'.
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.
January 01, 2000
Stay home and watch Welcome Back Kotter. It's more enlightening.
January 01, 2000
Hackneyed, obvious and Lite, complete with happy ending.
December 26, 2006
None of it rings the slightest bit true; all of it insults the intelligence.
July 27, 2002
Platitudes, cliches, stereotypes, and ... oh yeah, a soundtrack!
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
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
If only the filmmakers had used some subtlety in telling the story, they could have done right by the real LouAnne Johnson.
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
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.