Waiting for 'Superman' (Blu-ray) PG
The fate of our country won't be decided on a battlefield, it will be determined in a classroom.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 51 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 15, 2011
- 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:
Rating: 4/5 --
Waiting For Superman is at times powerful, often tragic and -- at the very end -- incredibly moving.
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Digital Spy
[This is] a fateful moment when the future of public education is being debated with unprecedented intensity. WAITING FOR SUPERMAN makes an invaluable addition to the debate.
Wall Street Journal
A hectoring, simplistic affair that has nothing of value to contribute to the British debate.
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Guardian
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
4 stars out of 5 -- [Guggenheim] tackles large-scale sociopolitical subjects and still manages to present a story in an intimate and humanistic way.
Box Office
[Guggenheim] capably presents a story of failing schools and striving students that's engaging and well paced...
Sight and Sound
It's a giant issue, and Guggenheim has taken a running, open-armed jump right into the thick of it.
Movieline
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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