Featured Audience Ratings

• Red L

  
  Stories about teachers winning over a tough audience are always uplifting - shades of 'To Sir with Love'. This movie has all the normal ingredients - tough-but-caring teacher, kids-with-chips-on-their-shoulders, fights, the teacher deciding to leave, but kids pull her back.… More
  Stories about teachers winning over a tough audience are always uplifting - shades of 'To Sir with Love'. This movie has all the normal ingredients - tough-but-caring teacher, kids-with-chips-on-their-shoulders, fights, the teacher deciding to leave, but kids pull her back. Music is great. I would have rated it higher, but it really has been done before many times.

• Film C

  
  I like movies like these, although its not as good as films like freedom writers, it is an entertaining enough movie. Its not the most inspirational drama that gives you the wow factor at the end of the movie but it is funny and keeps you interested. I absolutely love the soundtrack… More
  I like movies like these, although its not as good as films like freedom writers, it is an entertaining enough movie. Its not the most inspirational drama that gives you the wow factor at the end of the movie but it is funny and keeps you interested. I absolutely love the soundtrack to this movie its amazing.

• Wildaly M

  
  Stereotypical, predictable and unrealistic.

• Jason O

  
  Been spending most our lives living in the gangsta's paradise.

• Lenny M

  
  Michelle Pfeiffer looking hot in the ghetto trying to teach knowledge.

• Candy R

  
  Michelle is a teacher in an inner-city school. Love the soundtrack.

• Dean !

  
  The best of the cool teacher reaches out to the tough kids in a run down area films. You should like if you enjoyed Coach Carter which is very similar but is about the school basketball team.

• Ken S

  
  This movie was the bomb when I was in Junior High

• xGary X

  
  A teacher in "the ghetto" wins the trust and respect of her class of "homies". Absolutely laughable exploitative drivel.

• danny d

  
  lady meets kids. kids do stuff. one kid dies. sad.

• Jason S

  
  The first of the teachers who inspire gangster movies.

• Leigh R

  
  Very well done.

• Deb S

  
  The lives of these troubled and misunderstood teens are described very well and maybe that's one of the reasons why I liked this movie. Michele Pfeiffer portrays a teacher who gets a new job teaching at a city school. When she gets there, she realizes that she has agreed to teach… More
  The lives of these troubled and misunderstood teens are described very well and maybe that's one of the reasons why I liked this movie. Michele Pfeiffer portrays a teacher who gets a new job teaching at a city school. When she gets there, she realizes that she has agreed to teach a classroom full of hoodlums. After a terrible reception, from the students she tries unorthodox methods of teaching, using friendship and attention to win the trust of her students. In the end she becomes their inspiration for caring about their future. Not up to the classy "To Sir with Love" but pretty good nonetheless. I thought the soundtrack was great and I especially loved the song, "Gangsta's Paradise," by Coolio. This song really suits the atmosphere of the movie in a neighbourhood where fights and deaths are a common thing. Dangerous Minds is actually based on a true story. This movie carried a powerful message of hope, recognizes that there are certain situations where you truly have no control over, but ultimately you still have the choice and power to change your own life.

• Joseph E

  
  Could have been better!

• Lea L

  
  An ex-marine teacher struggles to connect with her students in an inner city schools. A wonderful and powerful movie.. Michelle Pfeiffer is outstanding.

• Leina R

  
  Interesting.

• Brett W

  
  one of the jewels in the never ending series of "How do I reech deez keedz!?" movies.

• Marcus W

  
  Michelle Pfeiffer becomes a teacher in a rough neighbourhood, earns the respect of the students and then gives them hope for the future. That's it. No character arcs, no surprises and no twists. It's short and does exactly what anyone can guess it's going to do.

• Sarah B

  
  It gave us a Gangsta's Paradise, but don't hold that against it.

• Ira Z

  
  Awesome movie. It was a bold movie to cast an actress as beautiful as Michelle Phfiffer to play this role. But she literally won me over by managing her role with flying colors. Aside from that, although this specific story has been used in many films, it still never fails to make a… More
  Awesome movie. It was a bold movie to cast an actress as beautiful as Michelle Phfiffer to play this role. But she literally won me over by managing her role with flying colors. Aside from that, although this specific story has been used in many films, it still never fails to make a great movie.

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