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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.
29 June 1968, England, UK
4 April 1960, Trinidad, British West Indies [now Trinidad and Tobago]
9 February 1990, Culver City, Los Angeles, California, USA
12 March 1960, Detroit, Michigan, USA
22 April 1951, New York City, New York, USA
20 March 1974, Medellin, Antioquia, Colombia
10 March 1968, Seaside, California, USA
22 May 1981, Bronx, New York, USA
29 April 1958, Santa Ana, California, USA
16 July 1969, Colombia
25 May 1933, London, England, UK
5 April 1966, Oxnard, California, USA
10 June 1973, New York, New York, USA
5 January 1924, Chicago, Illinois, USA
December 26, 2006
None of it rings the slightest bit true; all of it insults the intelligence.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
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.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
Stay home and watch Welcome Back Kotter. It's more enlightening.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!June 11, 2003
Horrible. A waste. How was this ever a hit?March 08, 2004
So whitebread I want to call everyone involved 'Urkle'.January 01, 2000
Hackneyed, obvious and Lite, complete with happy ending.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.