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
- Run Time: 1 hours, 51 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 24, 2017
- Originally Released: 2010
- Label: Paramount
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Geoffrey Canada | |
Directed by | Davis Guggenheim | |
Composition by | Christophe Beck | |
Director of Photography: | Erich Roland & Robert Richman |
Entertainment Reviews:
Overlooks some larger issues regarding systemic poverty and social inequities, while the tricky matter of private funding is elided altogether.
Philadelphia Weekly
It makes it a heart-wrenching true story about what adult special interests are costing our children.
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WORLD
Rating: 4.5/5 --
Like all topical documentaries with a worthy approach, it encourages awareness and debate about yet another inconvenient truth.
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Moviedex
Guggenheim examines the root causes of this public-school meltdown and offers suggestions for breaking the gridlock afflicting our educational system...
A.V. Club
[Guggenheim] capably presents a story of failing schools and striving students that's engaging and well paced...
Sight and Sound
4 stars out of 4 -- [A] masterful picture, which vaults itself among the year's best films.
USA Today
Rating: 3/4 --
More overwhelming than uplifting, and you can't help but feel this is a rich outsider looking in, and down on, public schools.
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Movie Nation
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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