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Waiting for “Superman” 2010 123movies

Waiting for “Superman” 2010 123movies

The fate of our country won't be decided on a battlefield, it will be determined in a classroom.Sep. 24, 2010111 Min.
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Watch: Waiting for “Superman” 2010 123movies, Full Movie Online – Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim reminds us that education “statistics” have names: Anthony, Francisco, Bianca, Daisy, and Emily, whose stories make up the engrossing foundation of WAITING FOR SUPERMAN. As he follows a handful of promising kids through a system that inhibits, rather than encourages, academic growth, Guggenheim undertakes an exhaustive review of public education, surveying “drop-out factories” and “academic sinkholes,” methodically dissecting the system and its seemingly intractable problems..
Plot: Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for Superman is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim.
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7.4/10 Votes: 11,492
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N/A Votes: 116 Popularity: 8.494 | TMDB

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personally engaging and sometimes factually slight document on the current state of education
Waiting for Superman does one thing right above all else: it gets a conversation going. Then something else has to matter, which is how much the people who get to talking really know about the education system in America, which has been making students fall behind compared to others throughout the world (i.e. USA ranks 25th among students for math and reading, albeit we’re #1 when it comes to confidence! yey we’re #1!) David Guggenheim’s documentary shifts between personal stories of (mostly) inner-city kids whose parents want their kids to do well but are doubtful for good reason about whether their kids will get the fair chance, and try ultimately to get them into charter-school systems that rely on a lottery system of picking who gets in and who doesn’t.

This makes up the emotional core of the picture, and it’s a good one. Where things get both interesting and tricky is when Guggenheim gets into the main issue at hand: what’s wrong with our countries schools, especially in inner-city/urban ones like in Harlem and DC where there are “Drop-Out Factories” created in part by students in bad neighborhoods but more-so by teachers who just don’t give a good-damn about teaching. Guggenheim rails against the teacher union’s seemingly monolithic nature when it comes to sacking bad teachers (we learn about the “Lemon Dance” system done with teachers who are tenured who are just bad period). Meanwhile he paints a very rosy picture of the Charter/private schools, and why not? They show how the teachers do give a damn about the students, and the better attention paid – and as we see teaching is a kind of art form that one can master – the better the students.

But doing a little research before or after the film shows that Guggenheim, for all of his good (and they are good) intentions, omits or shallowly covers certain things, such as the Kipp charter schools (it’s mentioned only briefly in the doc but 1 out of 5 Charter schools really work best at what they do, and not mentioned is how kids that don’t keep up in the first couple of years just get kicked out, period), and about the nature of public school teachers. The call for reform is not unwarranted, and I became saddened by the DC Chancellor’s idea of giving double to teachers who don’t take tenure being shot down, not even addressed, by the NEA. At the same time that Guggenheim gives some strong attention to the flailing public school/public-school-union system, and to how good though competitive Kipp and schools like it are, little attention is paid to what the urban/inner-city neighborhoods are really like that kids like this are in. I question the statement a person interviewed makes about the school system negatively affecting the neighborhoods more than the other way around. To me it would appear to be a vicious cycle where both sides need reform for true change.

But Waiting for Superman, a film meant to rile up the audience into attention like Guggenheim’s previous doc An Inconvenient Truth, is useful as a way to get people who have no idea what’s going on what is going on, at least the cliff-notes version of it. It isn’t the digging-deepest look at the subject, yet I did feel moved by how the people trying to get by with their kids are good people wanting the best for their kids. Probably the big irony that Guggenheim does, after giving so much positive hype for how charter schools work (i.e. 96% of students go on to college who attend), is showing the lottery system as the climax, and how very few spots there are in the schools. The doc could go even further with being an activist-style position trying to affect change, or give clearer facts; there’s a lot of cute-quirky animation to bring along the information, though the interviewees selected are kind of cherry-picked for its ultimate effect.

It is, in short, a good documentary but not quite a great one, and will be a big upper or a big downer depending on who you are in the audience, if you have kids, if you’re a teacher, or if you’re in the “rubber room” in one of the NYC schools.

Review By: Quinoa1984
I’m a Good Teacher and I Don’t Want More Money
Just get rid of the unions and make the schools competitive. And have vouchers so these poor inner city moms have a chance to get their kids into Catholic Schools that do a much better job for much less money per child, not because of religion (I have never had the gift of faith myself), but because of parent support and a wonderful lack of political correctness.

I am a public school teacher, my students rock the house (we beat our school and all of the other schools in our district) with their STAR scores (California’s across the board testing system that the Unions of course, hate), which makes me a “good” teacher, I guess. And I say, thank you Mr. Guggenhiem, thank you! And please, parents, do not think that your child’s teacher necessarily likes their union. I am not the only teacher who takes the union’s “voting guide” to the polls to know exactly what and whom to vote against.

Review By: joyinlagunahills

Other Information:

Original Title Waiting for “Superman”
Release Date 2010-09-24
Release Year 2010

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 51 min (111 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Documentary
Director Davis Guggenheim
Writer Davis Guggenheim, Billy Kimball
Actors Charles Adams, Jonathan Alter, Robert Balfanz
Country United States
Awards 16 wins & 28 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A


Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panasonic AJ-HDC27 Varicam, Sony PMW-EX3
Laboratory Company 3, Los Angeles (CA), USA (digital intermediate)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format Video (HD)
Cinematographic Process DVC Pro HD (720p/24) (source format), Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), XDCAM (1080p/24) (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (spherical) (Kodak Vision 2383), D-Cinema

Waiting for “Superman” 2010 123movies
Original title Waiting for "Superman"
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