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Information
- Year
- 2012
- Runtime
- 121 min.
- Director
- Daniel Barnz
- Genre
- Drama
- Rating *
- 6.5
- Votes *
- 5,362
- Checks
- 211
- Favs
- 6
- Dislikes
- 4
- Favs/checks
- 2.8% (1:35)
- Favs/dislikes
- 2:1
Top comments
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Jace Lightner
"Some critics have contended that the film is an ideological vehicle of conservative activist Philip Anschutz and that the film is slanted to promote the parent trigger movement"
Variety called the film a "heavy-handed inspirational drama" that "grossly oversimplifies the issue at hand." The site continued, "Barnz's disingenuous pot-stirrer plays to audiences' emotions rather than their intelligence, offering meaty roles for Maggie Gyllenhaal as a determined single mom, and Viola Davis as the good egg among a rotten batch of teachers, while reducing everyone else to cardboard characterizations. Absent high-profile champions, femme-centric pic could suffer from low attendance." 10 years 5 months ago