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  1. Nov 13, 2011
    0
    One of the most superficial and racial stereotype provoking films of all time. Good luck trying to learn something from this ****
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 18 Critics

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  1. Positive: 3 out of 18
  2. Negative: 4 out of 18
  1. 40
    The film fleetingly touches on the underfunding of schools and other administrative problems as well as the more compelling personal issues of teen pregnancy and violence. But the characters are so poorly drawn and underdeveloped that they seem to be little more than personifications of these societal ills.
  2. Reviewed by: Joey O'Bryan
    30
    As far as Pfeiffer's performance goes, she's got charm and pep to spare, but next to zero substance when it comes to exploring her character's particular hypocrisies and pretensions.
  3. 38
    The movie pretends to show poor black kids being bribed into literacy by Dylan and candy bars, but actually it is the crossover white audience that is being bribed with mind-candy in the form of safe words by the two Dylans.