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Dangerous Minds (1995)
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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...
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Yeah, don't really buy Michelle Pfeiffer as a badass former Marine, sorry.
If not for the soundtrack, this film would be forgettable.
Sure, I cried back in the day, but watching it now I only get frustrated at the racist ideology behind a white woman who is the only person able to save the racialized lower classes from...
(complete Dangerous Minds review by Jessica Film Junkie)
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