Dangerous Minds | | Cast : | Michelle Pfeiffer, George Dzundza | | Director : | John N. Smith | | Studio : | Hollywood Pictures | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | August 11, 1995 | | DVD Released Date : | August 05, 2003 | | Language : | French (Dubbed), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | May 12, 2005 | | Summary | Great Movie | Content
 | I love Dangerous Minds, but I do admit it could have been better...basically it was a great plot, the acting was good but they could have gone places with the movie..But overall, I loved it..Gangstas Paradise went SO well with the movie and gave a great sense of the setting..i recommend it, but not to all - especially the movie critic types..warning:this is not an oscar award winning movie |
| Rating | | | Date | May 01, 2005 | | Summary | A+ inner city school movie | Content
| Wow this is one of the best movies about a faculty member making an impact in an inner city school as well as Lean On Me. This is probably Michelle Pfeiffer's best performance of her career and should have gotten Oscar consideration for it. There were great performances by others such as George Dzunda, Courtney B. Vance, Wade Dominguez, Marisela Gonzales, the girl who played Callie, and the guy who played Raul. Such a deep and well down motion picture. Gets an A+ all around! |
| Rating | | | Date | September 30, 2004 | | Summary | You've seen this before a hundred times. | Content
| Dangerous Minds (John N. Smith, 1995)
That longtime director John N. Smith has such an anonymous name is a kind of poetic irony, in that no one remembers any of his films. Except, that is, Dangerous Minds, and the only reason they remember that one is because it has a really great main title, supplied by Coolio (Billboard chart-topper "Gangsta's Paradise").
You've seen this movie a thousand times before; that it's based on a more recent piece of nonfiction does not in any way downplay it's overt similarities to movies going all the way back to Boys Town. Louanne Johnson (Michelle Pfeiffer, the movie's real gem) is an ex-drill sergeant in the Marines taking on her toughest assignment: a class full of troubled high school kids. Her ally is old friend Hal Griffith (Law and Order's George Dzundza, who does what he can with what he's got, which isn't much), and her enemy is the school principal, George Grandey (Law and Order: Criminal Intent's Courtney B. Vance), who despite being based on a nonfictional character is the essence of the two-dimensional Evil Nemesis(TM). Caught in the middle are the kids themselves, whom Johnson is forced to manipulate into wanting to learn. Some of the kids (most of whom were acting in their first film, and have not acted since) give surprising turns of flair in this movie, but in all honesty they're not enough to warrant going out of your way to watch this. Andy Garcia (cast for the movie, but whose scenes were cut before release) may have been able to spice this up; he steals every film he appears in, or did back when this came out. As it stands, it's something you've seen so many times before that by the very predictable end, you find yourself asking "is that really all there is?" ** |
| Rating | | | Date | July 08, 2004 | | Summary | DANGEROUSLY INSPIRING | Content
| Definitely a must see movie. "rage rage against the dying of the light" WOW. Every black and latino person must see this movie and understand how the ghetto life is affecting us and adapt some skills to make it a better place. I absorbed the lessons in the movie. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 21, 2004 | | Summary | Wonderful | Content
| Michelle Pfeiffer stars in this wondrful movie about a ex-marine who desperatly wants to teach, so takes on the job of teaching a group of troubled teenagers. As time progresses, the teacher starts to learn that the only way to get the children to understand what she wants them to, is to reward them after they do what she asks. |
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