Rating: 
Summary: Intelligently wrapped
Review: The female lead glows in an eye-catching performance of a teacher who has accepted her morally and socially low existence. The boy is a clean cut student who takes upon himself a task of introducing the teacher to her 'lost dreams'.Slowly she begins to realize the person she was and who she has become. Who is helping who and why who is helping whom is the big mystery which unravels into a bang of an ending. This is a story of friendship and faith and small acts of kindness. Something like a modern day version of 'Pygmalion' with a twist.
Rating:
Summary: it's all about the end
Review: The last ten minutes alone is worth the money. It justs builds and builds and then explodes into emotions and special effects.
Rating:
Summary: Photogenic movie
Review: The scenes are gorgeous. And the rich coloring just eccentuates their beauty. The opening scenes and the final scenes are designed close to perfection. The story as a whole and the music are pretty good. But the photography completely dominates this movie. It generates atmosphere and mood due to a widescreen feel, the unusual angles they're captured from, and the time of day they are shot. And with a cocktail of special effects thrown in, the last scene is nothing less than dazzling.
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Summary: Break out potential
Review: The story shows that one can be intelligent and
still need help. One of these three actors will
break out big: The Teacher, Blondie, the funny
guy in class with the Brooklyn accent.
Rating:
Summary: Great film, beautiful photography, inspiring message!
Review: This is the kind of film that is made all too infrequently these days. Really good actors, who don't look like movie stars and are completely believable, even the bit parts are played to a tee. My faves: the charismatic teenagers who are colorful enough to have their own sitcom. Stunning cinematography of New York's upper east side harkens back to the great Woody Allen films "Annie Hall" and "Mighty Aphrodite". A clear and simple story that hides a nice twist, and a great message (I'm not giving it away). I don't think it's a film for real little kids, or gen-y'ers looking for sex and violence, but for everyone else, its one of those experiences that makes you feel better about the world, and better about yourself.
Rating:
Summary: A+
Review: This movie starts out a bit wierdly. And the opening scene is just downright bad in which the acting and photography are quite ordinary. But very soon the whole thing goes into another plane. The acting and photography and story and jokes are better than most Hollwyood movies. The music and photography especially sometimes took me out of this world. I couldn't believe some of the ways they photographed the film. The boy in the movie has a lot of charisma. But the story of the teacher appealed to me much more. She is a bitter person. But we really get to feel for her. And by the end her world is turned upside down by the boy. In the final scene, during every beat I could associate totally with the teacher. My girlfriend was crying by the end. And I was trying to hold my tears back as much as possible because I was dogging this film to her when it started. They advertise this movie as a boy like girl thing or a movie on Dyslexia. I think this will keep many people back from seeing the movie. I think it's much more than that. This movie is about our faith in people and humanity.
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Summary: one thousand and one'th way
Review: This story could have been told in one thousand and one ways. But they chose that one perfect way. Although with occasional flaws in some respects, this movie was very well directed and acted. The elements of conflict were established early on, and the tension they created held me in their grip. The teacher plays the part of a troubled and depressed choco-holic who has given up on everything. But her quirkiness is somehow attractive. She doesn't care for those people around her or her students. I loved this part because I'm sick of movies where the teacher has an infectoius passion for life and forces his students to learn poetry and this causes all their lives to improve. Virtually every scene is embedded with symbolism. And many things that are said have a double meaning. Mike's final word, 'Ready', is brilliantly placed. Mike seems like a normal hormone obsessed kid till very slowly his dyslexia starts getting revealed. But Mike's educated and rich dad refuses to accept that his son is 'disabled'. This is what creates the driving conflict of the movie. The camera angles are exquisitely chosen. The same scene is shown from twenty different angles. Which almost made me feel like I was present with the characters and I absorbed the surroundings. The standard goofy teen cameo subplot is interjected throughout. And finally when we reach a satisfying conclusion something very incredible happens. Everything we believed. Every judgement we made about the characters and the story is flipped on its head. The final scene is what makes it worth the money. This one scene elevates the movie from good to excellent. And leaves you thinking for a long time.
Rating:
Summary: Great Movie
Review: What a great movie and scintillating photography. The story is simple yet captivating and the ending leaves you breathless. Future looks bright for the young director and the cast of this movie. Everyone should check it out.
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Summary: The title of this movie should be MORON!
Review: When i saw this movie first i tried too leave but i failed. People cant act in it. That little chubby and obese boy cant act if his life depended on it! After the movie was finished everone got their money back and a complementary soda and the movie was banned from that theater. WASTE OF DVD PLASTIC AND INK. The money that paid for this movie should have been given to any kind of charity or homeless people. If you want to fux up your weekend invite peopel you dont like and watch it with them! TO BORE OR NOT TO BORE??
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Summary: Coulda been even better
Review: With the idea they had it should have been pretty amazing. instead style takes over substace quite a few times. don't get out of bed to rent this one, but if you're in the store already it's definitely a good pick.
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