Waiting for "Superman" PG
The fate of our country won't be decided on a battlefield, it will be determined in a classroom.
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 15, 2011
- Originally Released: 2010
- Label: Paramount
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Davis Guggenheim | |
Screenwriting by | Billy Kimball & Davis Guggenheim | |
Composition by | Christophe Beck & John Legend | |
Director of Photography: | Erich Roland & Robert Richman | |
Hosted by | Geoffrey Canada |
Entertainment Reviews:
A hectoring, simplistic affair that has nothing of value to contribute to the British debate.
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Guardian
Rating: 2/5 --
In the end, this is scattergun film-making, well-intentioned but sloppy, sometimes deliberately evasive. If this documentary were an exam essay, I'd fail it.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
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
[A] powerful and alarming documentary about America's failing public school system...
New York Times
Overlooks some larger issues regarding systemic poverty and social inequities, while the tricky matter of private funding is elided altogether.
Philadelphia Weekly
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
4 stars out of 5 -- [Guggenheim] tackles large-scale sociopolitical subjects and still manages to present a story in an intimate and humanistic way.
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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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