Dangerous Minds

1995 "She broke the rules... and changed their lives."
6.5| 1h39m| R| en| More Info
Released: 11 August 1995 Released
Producted By: Hollywood Pictures
Country: United States of America
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Former Marine Louanne Johnson lands a gig teaching in a pilot program for bright but underachieving teens at a notorious inner-city high school. After having a terrible first day, she decides she must throw decorum to the wind. When Johnson returns to the classroom, she does so armed with a no-nonsense attitude informed by her military training and a fearless determination to better the lives of her students -- no matter what the cost.

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Drama

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Director

John N. Smith

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Hollywood Pictures

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Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.
VividSimon Simply Perfect
Stellead Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful
Calum Hutton It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...
Predrag Dangerous Minds was a very good movie although the story line was a little predictable. It showed real kids with real problems. It also shows that all it takes is for someone to actually care about kids like that and they can change. There was a lot of foul language and although that's how kids talk, they could have done without it. I like how the writers had Michelle P's character constantly talk about choices. She showed how everything we do and say is our choice.Michelle Pfeiffer gives an excellent and convincing performance as the teacher, Ms. Johnson. However, I found elements in the story not convincing. A teacher in the real world could and would not get away with what she did for those students. She was like the Wonder Woman in the world of education putting her own life in jeopardy as well as her students and completely ignoring the administration.. This story is a heart-warming story and the kids did a great jobs as the students in her classroom. Overall good movie, definitely sparks up some emotion!Overall rating: 8 out of 10.
Marius Uldukis The movie might be simplistic at first sight it's a woman who was a marine and now she decided to teach kids. Little did she knew those kids were trouble makers, but she finds a way to cope with them, and that's a whole movie in a nutshell.But there's more than meets the eye. I know exactly what leader is, and this movie is one of the best examples of great leaders. She tries to convince these kids that it's important to study and succeeds. That would be the main objective, but she does more than that, she engages their problems and tries to solve them. She stands up to them in front of authority and tries to understand them. She takes her own money to pay everyone to go on a funfair, she trusted her own money with that Mexican kid, she tries to save a kids life (which most of the teachers would've let it slip, by simply not listening, in fact they did just that, and because of that the kid was shot). In other words she puts these kids as her main priority, even higher than herself. And that is the description of perfect leader. When she first came into class these kids were like a separate sticks, she tied them up and made them strong. The ending shows that very clearly: when these kids acted out all together as one to make her stay in that school (which they wouldn't have done for any other teacher). What these kids desperately needed was a good leader.It's sad how low the score of this movie is. The acting was great, even today's movies has more acting flaws and fans let it easily slip. The soundtrack was well suited, camera work was good. In my opinion this movie is underrated. It definitely deserves higher score than 6.4. I guess most of us finds it cheesy? I don't know, the reason behind the score.
myyoutubeaccount Luckily for this film the minimum score is 1. I am renowned by my friends, family and colleagues for the amount of films I have seen and the knowledge I have on them. Over the years the amount has become so large that i've long since given up on picking a "best film i've ever seen". However about a year ago I watched this film and my opinion on it has not changed and its rating on my list of films has remained exactly the same. It is by far the worst film I have ever seen. It is bad. It terrifyingly, apocalyptically bad. At least Plan 9 or The Room had a turn around point where they began to be so bad that they could be made fun of and you could laugh at them. This film lacks the turn around point. It just grabs as many "tear jerking moments" it can get its hands on, sticks them in a blender, leaves the lid off and lets the resulting travesty f*** up the decor of the entire room. It's been a year since I have seen this film and I am still struggling to get past this pitiful excuse for a film. Every time I think of it I feel like I am going to shout at someone and that I will soon be put in anger therapy as a result. In conclusion, I recommend that you never see this film so that you don't alter, or altogether ruin/obliterate any love for films that you may have. I know that I didn't mention what I hated about the film so much and that's just the thing. If someone handed me the only existing copy on a computer and to edit/delete what i thought was stupid in the film, I would probably just watch it and then attach a nuke to the computer just to make sure that this abomination and anything within a 10-mile-radius of it never sees the light of day again.
Jas Sin I wish I had never watched it. Nothing from this movie came out original. Having watched a bunch of "inspirational teacher movies" this one came out lame. The teacher was rather annoying and nosy rather that truly caring and genuine. She was an ex-marine? She didn't look the part and didn't show any sign that she was ever under the rigid and disciplined Marine training. It would have been good if she used some Marine techniques in disciplining her students instead of using Bob Dylan poems to inspire her students. What was the point of making a weak copy cat of "To Sir With Love?" This movie is a sad one. A really sad movie as it should never have been made.