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Dangerous Minds | 
| Director: John N. Smith
Actors: Michelle Pfeiffer, George Dzundza, Courtney B. Vance, Robin Bartlett, Beatrice Winde
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  47 reviews
Sales Rank: 8426
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 99 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: DISD16794D
ISBN: 078881530X
UPC: 717951001924
EAN: 9786305428275
ASIN: 6305428271
Theatrical Release Date: August 11, 1995
Release Date: July 13, 1999
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Pfeiffer stars as louanne johnson a former marine turned high school teacher whose first assignment is a class of small but tough students. As their new instructor ms. Johnson defies all the rules and creates her own curriculum that includes cajoling and bribing the kids into learning. Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 08/05/2003 Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer George Dzundza Run time: 99 minutes Rating: R Director: John N. Smith
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This "To Ma'am with Love" is much more an escapist popcorn movie than the inner-city document its marketing suggested. Michelle Pfeiffer plays real-life former Marine Louanne Johnson, a high school English teacher who meets resistance from kids and administration alike at a tough urban school in Northern California. Pfeiffer is good, and her character's overall development even survives various post-production story cuts. (A romance with Andy Garcia's character was completely eliminated before release; Garcia is nowhere in sight.) The actors who play Johnson's students are also fine, and the whole film becomes the latest in a long tradition of sentimental movies about teachers who change the lives of kids. --Tom Keogh
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 dangerous Minds December 11, 2007
David Johnson (wisconsin)
the best real life drama I have seen in years it is one of my favorite movies it took some time to find it on DVD have worn out the VHS tape I had of this movie.
Great film with an awesome message October 26, 2007
Andrew Brooks (Carson, California)
It's not often that I write reviews like this, but thought I would in this case.
I remember, eerily enough, when this movie came out in 1995. Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise" came out in August of that year and was an instant hit, topping the Billboards for two, three months straight. I was only 13 then.
The movie itself was really good. The acting was great and the depiction of inner-city life was stellar. I thought it was a shame that it was only given two stars by the Movie Rating Association, but what do they know?
Everyone gets to make choices in life regardless of their situation. One must have the drive and ambition to make the right ones. One line that Ms. Johnson has in the film is the response to one student's statement "If we get on the bus, we have to put up with you!" She responds, "Yes, but that is still a choice. You can either [stay where you're at] or get on that bus. That may be a choice you don't like but that's still a choice. There are no losers in this classroom."
I also like her line of "As of right now, everyone in here has an 'A'. It's up to you to keep it."
Danger Never Looked So Good! February 23, 2007
Navy Bean (Amsterdam/Dayton, OH)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Or plodded along so predictably ... now I'm not trying to say Michelle Pfeiffer isn't convincing as a tough-as-nails, kick your tail instructor, because I don't have to. Anyone with an IQ over 120 will figure that out instantly.
Now, we all know that inner-city youths don't deserve as much attention as rich kids, so let's stop pretending that one teacher with a mission is going to make a difference in these loser kids lives. They aren't going anywhere except to a street corner or a stoop. I'm not judging anybody, just stating my perspective from a life filled with wisdom and multiple degrees on public policy, psychology and metallurgical engineering.
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