Product Details

• Actors: Michelle Pfeiffer, George Dzundza, Courtney B. Vance, Robin Bartlett, Beatrice Winde
• Directors: John N. Smith
• Writers: LouAnne Johnson, Ronald Bass
• Producers: Don Simpson, Jerry Bruckheimer, Kate Guinzburg, Lucas Foster, Sandra Rabins
• Format: PAL
• Language: German (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Subtitles: English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Portuguese, Hebrew, Greek, Icelandic, Croatian, Polish, Hungarian
• Region: Region 2 (Read more about DVD formats.)
• Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Run Time: 99 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (54 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00004RYSC
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #587,465 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Dangerous Minds" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

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 of sentimental movies about teachers who change the lives of kids. --Tom Keogh

From The New Yorker

LouAnne Johnson (Michelle Pfeiffer), a divorced ex-Marine, teaches English in an urban Northern California high school, and her students are an unruly, education-resistant bunch-that is, a typical supporting cast for the heroic-teacher genre. Thanks to Pfeiffer's inventive acting, John N. Smith's movie does a fairly entertaining job of capturing the unscrupulous, guerrilla-like cunning of a good teacher in a bad school. But the cut-to-the-enlightenment dramaturgy of Ronald Bass's screenplay feels desperate and false. And in the final scenes the movie gets as sticky as "To Sir with Love." It canonizes the heroine needlessly: Pfeiffer looks plenty good without a halo. Also with George Dzundza and Courtney B. Vance. Based on Johnson's memoir, "My Posse Don't Do Homework." -Terrence Rafferty
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dangerous Minds, January 5, 2010

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TREND700 "TREND700" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dangerous Minds (DVD)

Former Marine LouAnne Johnson leaves an officer's commission and a nine-year military career to pursue her dream of becoming an English teacher. But while earning her credentials at a Northern California high school, she is assigned to a group of students who change her life forever. And she changes theirs. Although each of her charges exhibits a seemingly inpenetrable facade, these kids are desperate to connect with someone who cares about them. As their new instructor, the feisty Ms. Johnson defies all the rules, creates her own curriculum and instructs this class of tough, inner-city teenagers from college-level texts. This is ultimately a feel good movie with much humanity; one of those movies that you really ought to see.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent real life movie you can't miss, April 25, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Dangerous Minds [VHS] (VHS Tape)

After I watched Dangerous Minds for the first time I couldn't stop watching it. It was such a good movie. It was sad but that was part of what made it so good. Sometimes in order to enjoy a movie there has to be sad parts or it doesn't seem realistic.

My favortie character in the movie was Callie Roberts. She was such a smart, strong person. I felt sorry for her having to be in a class like that.

If you haven't seen Dangerous Minds, you have to rent it. You won't regret it.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not Bad/ Not Perfect Either!, August 5, 2001

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LadyLestat (Birmingham, Alabama United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dangerous Minds (DVD)

Michelle Pfeiffer plays LouAnne Johnson an ex-Marine teaching a inner-city school. I thought the movie had a good message but, I saw a lot of "Lean on Me" elements, and that's what didn't make it very original in my opinion. I thought that Michelle did a wonderful job, and it's a very inspirational movie. I guess that I just expected more than that. I can say that it is based on actual events that happened so, that's a plus.