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DVD-R Details
- Rated: PG
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: November 9, 2021
- Originally Released: 2010
- Label: Paramount
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Davis Guggenheim | |
Screenwriting by | Davis Guggenheim & Billy Kimball | |
Composition by | Christophe Beck & John Legend | |
Director of Photography: | Erich Roland & Robert Richman | |
Hosted by | Geoffrey Canada |
Entertainment Reviews:
90%
TOMATOMETER
4 stars out of 5 -- [Guggenheim] tackles large-scale sociopolitical subjects and still manages to present a story in an intimate and humanistic way.
Box Office
4 stars out of 5 -- [Guggenheim] shows a knack for presenting otherwise dry facts and figures in both a simple and dramatic way, combining them with heart-rending human stories.
Total Film
4 stars out of 4 -- [A] masterful picture, which vaults itself among the year's best films.
USA Today
Guggenheim examines the root causes of this public-school meltdown and offers suggestions for breaking the gridlock afflicting our educational system...
A.V. Club
3.5 stars out of 4 -- [Guggenheim] contends the American educational system is failing....He dramatizes this failure in a painfully direct way, says what is wrong, says what is right.
Chicago Sun-Times
[A] powerful and alarming documentary about America's failing public school system...
New York Times
WAITING FOR SUPERMAN, filmmaker Davis Guggenheim's scathing, moving critique of American public education, makes you actually want to do something after you dry your eyes.
Washington Post
Product Description:
Documentary filmmaker Davis Guggenheim explores the tragic ways in which the American public education system is failing our nation's children, and explores the roles that charter schools and education reformers could play in offering hope for the future. We see the statistics every day -- students dropping out, science and math scores falling, and schools closing due to lack of funding. What we don't see are the names and faces of the children whose entire futures are at stake due to our own inability to enact change. There was a time when the American public education system was a model admired by the entire world. Today other countries are surpassing us in every respect, and the slogan "No Child Left Behind" has become a cynical punch line. Bianca, Emily, Anthony, Daisy, and Francisco are five students who deserve better. By investigating how the current system is actually obstructing their education instead of bolstering it, Guggenheim opens the door to considering possible options for transformation and improvement.
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- Sales Rank: 107,474
- UPC: 810072546371
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