• Starring: Haley Joel Osment, Helen Hunt, Kevin Spacey
  • Summary: Eugene Simonet (Spacey) is a social studies teacher who teaches his class that it is possible for one person to change the world. When one student (Osment) really listens and believes, the ripples begin to be felt by others in his life and the idea starts to spread across the nation.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 34
  2. Negative: 8 out of 34
  1. Reviewed by: Jay Carr
    75
    The kind of film you've got to admire simply for the way it squares its shoulders and plunges into a message of unfashionable idealism.
  2. Reviewed by: Marc Caro
    50
    Too high-minded to stoop as low as it does, particularly in its unforgivably manipulative ending.
  3. 30
    At its core, a very manipulative piece of work.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 15
  2. Negative: 5 out of 15
  1. 10
    An incredible film which brings an original characteristic to the table, giving the audience a point of view that had not yet been recognized. Though leaving you in tears at the end, it shows the importance of how much one step in society can make a difference and even though we think we don't make a difference with the choices we make and we may not ever know the impact of those choices, the effect of them can still make a huge impact. Expand
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  2. 10
    Sorry for the translation With the permission of the director, Mimi Leder, enter Class Trevor, as auditors of course. The lesson has already begun. ……… You see I am here for you every day, so I expect you to be there for me. On time without excuses. Now… This is a course, Social Studies, which you and the world. Yes, there is a world out there and even if you decide not to want to meet, however, will hit you straight in the face. Believe me. So, you better start thinking about the world now, what does it mean for you. That means the world to everyone. Courage, I want a class that participates here. It 's just from this room that want to pull you out from your home, on your street? None of you wants to go further? (A student) In stores, only 3 kilometers from my house. Oh well, I will tell you another question. How to think about things that happen outside of this city? Watch the news? Yes ... no. Well we are not global thinkers, but why do not we? Trevor: Because we have eleven. Just relief. Your name? Trevor. Maybe Trevor is absolutely right, why should we think about the world, after all what the world expects from us. Trevor: Expect ...? What the world expects from you. Trevor: Nothing! Nothing! My God, boys and girls are absolutely right. Nothing! Yes, here you are. You can’t drive, vote, you can’t even go to the bathroom without permission from me. Nothing! My God, boys and girls are absolutely right. Nothing! You are stuck. Right here, in seventh grade. ... But not forever. ... Because one day you will be free! (Applause) But what if the day on which you are free you are not prepared, you are not ready; Yet you look around ... and you do not like the world is. And ... if the world is a huge disappointment ... ...? We're screwed! Unless ... unless you take the things you do not like this world and end up making them beat off the ground buttocks. Do not tell your parentes that I used that word. And you can start doing today. This is your task. You. . . Rate and applies throughout the year. And you can start doing today. (boys) It 's so ... weird, crazy, dull, tedious. Funny, crazy, dull, tedious. How about you .... And 'possible. The realm of possibilities exist. Where? In each of you! Here! (Indicating his head). So you can do it, you can surprise us. It is up to you or you can starvene impaled, and let it atrophy. Thank you, Mimi Leder and go away from class. There are teachers who just bore you to look at them, then start talking when the focus reaches historic low. Eugene Simonet (Kevin Spacey) is not one of these for two reasons. The first. It 'a connoisseur of the human mind, than that of boys in particular. Establishing meaningful relationships, knows how to stimulate them, how to capture their attention as they move through the emotional maze. Well, not so much to teach .... (In Italian: Insomma, non insegna tanto per… .) The second. He had two masters "senators" The Book and the Life. With the former has always had a good relationship, is a thinker, he enjoys playing with words and writing. Second, it has molded in body and soul. On your body the time past, that of adolescence, has left deep furrows and devastating. But his life has become too orderly, even his moods are sorted. Every feeling has its boxes, tightly closed. Disordered for 'Chemical' is Arlene McKinney (Helen Hunt), his disorder resulting from the use of the liquid light / dark called alcohol. Liar knows how to be an alcoholic, lives with her son Trevor (Haley Joel Osment) in a working-class neighborhood of Las Vegas, singles, first communicated with his mother and then with her husband only by the bottle. Working in a strip club and a casino night, day changers. Bottles hidden everywhere. Life with You, is playing a difficult game and not want to miss. There is still something I do not want to lose the most precious, his son. He knows that she could not deceive. Trevor, eleven, despite his age, he learned too early to "live alone". Trevor loves his mother more than himself, knows his state of physical and mental health, knows that alone will never be able to write one new page and beautiful in the book of life. Is not one to abandon the game. No longer wish to live in balance. It 'tough, thoughtful, and it takes everything seriously. The deeply meditating on the work proposed by the teacher in class one morning when Simonet offers ... Think of an idea to change our world – and put it into ACTION! A Trevor do not need more than this, input, a meaningful input. In fact, while back home ...... Let's sit down and follow Trevor. There is much to learn. Good Ciak! Expand
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