Pressure Cooker
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 39 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 20, 2010
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: First Run Features
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Directed by | Jennifer Grausman & Mark Becker | |
| Edited by | Mark Becker | |
| Composition by | Prince Paul & Donald Newkirk | |
| Produced by | Jennifer Grausman | |
| Director of Photography: | Justin Schein & Leigh Iacobucci | |
| Executive Production by | Jeff Skoll & Diane Weyermann |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Like the great chefs their subjects aspire to become, filmmakers Jennifer Grausman and Mark Becker have created a delectable confection, patiently assembling their ingredients and allowing the mixture ample time to bake in the sure knowledge that the result will be spectacular.
Box Office
Rating: 3/4 --
By the end, you won't need to slice onions to get the tear ducts working.
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Boston Phoenix
Rating: 3/4 --
An earnest crowd-pleaser that could have used an extra helping of dramatic tension -- but it succeeds by placing us in an interesting world with characters who are impossible not to root for.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Rating: 4/5 --
I grew a deep hunger while watching Pressure Cooker, not just from the students' mouthwatering dishes, but from the fact that teacher/chef Wilma Stephenson could uniformly inspire such success.
Film Threat
Rating: 4/5 --
High school teacher Wilma Stephenson nourishes her culinary arts students in their hungry bids for better lives. An inspiration, 'Pressure Cooker' is a welcome antithesis to slice and dice.
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About.com
Rating: 3/4 --
Pressure Cooker is not about pressure so much as clarity of purpose. It's about a unique teacher's way of building confidence and pride, with results that joyously speak for themselves.
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Seattle Times
[M]oving, inspirational and tremendously real....It provides an absorbing, highly engaging look at a year in the life of a Philadelphia high school culinary arts class and its nascent chefs as they prepare for a life-changing scholarship competition.
Los Angeles Times
Product Description:
With its 40% dropout rate, the northeast Philadelphia high school in PRESSURE COOKER isn't exactly known for its academic success. But the Culinary Arts teacher, Wilma Stephenson, is on a one-woman mission to change that. This documentary follows three of her students as they struggle to balance Mrs. Stephenson's difficult course with their own personal challenges, knowing that the successful students could earn huge scholarships to prestigious cooking schools.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 97,343
- UPC: 720229914260
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