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.
SUPER SAVINGS: | $10.50 Limited Time Only |
List Price: |
|
You Save: | $2.49 (19% Off) |
Available:
Usually ships in 3-5 business days
Brand New
|
Also released as:
Waiting for "Superman"
for $16.10
Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 51 minutes
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: October 24, 2017
- 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:
Overlooks some larger issues regarding systemic poverty and social inequities, while the tricky matter of private funding is elided altogether.
Philadelphia Weekly
3.5 stars out of 4 -- [Guggenheim] contends the American educational system is failing....He dramatizes this failure in a painfully direct way, says what is wrong, says what is right.
Chicago Sun-Times
It makes it a heart-wrenching true story about what adult special interests are costing our children.
Full Review
WORLD
[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
Rating: 3/5 --
You know you're in an endangered superpower when a vice-president who spells "potatos" without an "e" is followed two decades later by a president for whom the plural of child is "childrens".
Full Review
Financial Times
4 stars out of 4 -- [A] masterful picture, which vaults itself among the year's best films.
USA Today
Rating: 2/5 --
In the end, this is scattergun film-making, well-intentioned but sloppy, sometimes deliberately evasive. If this documentary were an exam essay, I'd fail it.
Full Review
Daily Telegraph (UK)
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.
Keywords:
Similar Products
Formats:
Genres:
Labels:
Product Groupings:
Theme:
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 94,488
- UPC: 032429287618
- Shipping Weight: 0.13/lbs (approx)
- International Shipping: 1 item