Waiting for "Superman"

(2010)

★ 6.9 IMDb · 150 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 2010

Runtime: 111 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Davis Guggenheim

Cast: Charles Adams, Jonathan Alter, Geoffrey Canada, Celeste Bell

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.

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.