Teacher goes to tough school again (Dangerous Minds (DVD))

Member Name: fuzzybear

Product:	Dangerous Minds (DVD)
Date:	14/10/09 (27 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Good performance from Pfeiffer

Disadvantages: Predictable plot

Dangerous Minds is a rather predicatble film as it follows the theme of a teacher who goes into a tough inner city school and wins over the disillusioned students, it has been done in various formats over the years from Please Sir to the sporting linked Coach Carter. In this film it is Michelle Pfeiffe playing Louanne Johnson who after serving with the marines and then leaving the service becomes a teacher in a tough California school.

The basic plot has her stepping a tight line between her preofessional conduct and becomming too close to the students and not living up to her duty as a teacher.

Pfeiifer is actually pretty good in the role although I was not totally convinced of her military back ground in fact if it had not be explained qute literally you would see little in the way she depicts her character as having had a military back ground.

The main problem with the film is how predictable it is but it is a good piece of drama and I certainly felt some sort of attachment to the students and hoped that things would turn out ok for them.

Summary: School based drama