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DVD Features:
- Rated: Not Rated
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 45 minutes
- Video: Color
- Released: February 1, 2000
- Originally Released: 1967
- Label: Sony Pictures
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Packaging: Keep Case
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox - 1.85
- Aspect Ratio: Widescreen - 1.78
- Audio:
- Dolby Digital Stereo Surround - English
- Additional Release Material:
- Trailers:
- TO SIR WITH LOVE
- BUCK AND THE PREACHER
- A RAISIN IN THE SUN
- BROTHER JOHN
- Interactive Features:
- Scene Selection
- Interactive Menus
- Text/Photo Galleries:
- Production Notes
- Talent Files
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Sidney Poitier & Lulu | |
Performer: | Judy Geeson, Christian Roberts, Suzy Kendall, Faith Brook, Geoffrey Bayldon & Patricia Routledge | |
Directed by | James Clavell | |
Edited by | Peter Thornton | |
Written by | James Clavell | |
Composition by | Ron Grainer | |
Produced by | James Clavell | |
Director of Photography: | Paul Beeson |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
One factor in the picture's popularity and its sustaining charm is the tuneful title song, which was a top hit for Lulu and is heard throughout the film.
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TV Guide
Rating: 3/5 --
A cozy, good-humored and unbelievable little tale.
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New York Times
Even the weak moments are saved by Poitier, who invests his role with a subtle warmth.
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TIME Magazine
Rating: 4/5 --
Sydney Poitier at his best; teens and up.
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Common Sense Media
To Sir With Love is a good movie made excellent by a towering and sensitive performance from Sidney Poitier.
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Cleveland Press
Well-meaning tripe.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 3/5 --
Sidney Poitier is a beleaguered English teacher in this multi-cultural Mr. Chips
Denton Record-Chronicle
Product Description:
Ideological changes in post-Civil Rights movement America were at the heart of legendary African-American actor Sidney Poitier's films in the late 1960s. One such film is this powerful drama, which stars Poitier as Mark Thackery, an unemployed engineer who applies for a teaching job because he needs the paycheck. He lands a job at a school in London's East End that's full of unruly teenagers who are profoundly uninterested in learning. After several failed attempts to reach the students, Thackery abandons the textbooks and conventional teaching methods and, treating them as young adults, he prepares his students for the job market. His unorthodox style is effective--the students begin to respect Thackery and absorb his lessons. But his substantial accomplishments are weighed in the balance when he is finally offered the engineering job he had been waiting for.
Poitier's proud, defiant figure stands tall against the rowdy, aimless swinging-sixties London teens, but one of the film's strengths is the respect that is paid to the disruptive students as human characters worthy of a better future. Lulu, who delivers a strong student portrayal, also sings the popular theme song.
Poitier's proud, defiant figure stands tall against the rowdy, aimless swinging-sixties London teens, but one of the film's strengths is the respect that is paid to the disruptive students as human characters worthy of a better future. Lulu, who delivers a strong student portrayal, also sings the popular theme song.
Plot Synopsis:
A black high school teacher struggles to connect with his classroom of all white British students. He finally makes progress when, after tossing the books aside, he teaches them how to survive in the real world.
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Production Notes:
- Theatrical release: June 14, 1967.
- Color by Technicolor.
- Film debut for British pop singer Lulu.
- British pop band The Mindbenders, who recorded the song "Groovy Kind of Love" play at a dance party.
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- Sales Rank: 12,949
- UPC: 043396032965
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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