Waiting for 'Superman'
| Release Date: | Jan 2010 |
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| Genre: | Documentary |
| Awards: | 4 wins & 8 nominations |
| Cast: | The Black Family (Themselves), Geoffrey Canada (Himself), The Esparza Family (Themselves), The Hill Family (Themselves), George Reeves (Superman), Michelle Rhee (Herself), Bill Strickland (Himself), Randi Weingarten (Herself) |
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.