Dangerous Minds is an American drama film based on the autobiography My Posse Don't Do Homework by former U.S. Marine LouAnne Johnson, who took up a teaching position at Carlmont High School in Belmont, California, in 1989, where most of her students were African-American and Hispanic teenagers from East Palo Alto, a then-unincorporated town at the opposite end of the school district. The film, starring Michelle Pfeiffer as LouAnne Johnson, was released to mixed critical reception, but became a surprise box office success in the summer of 1995, leading to the creation of a short-lived... television series of the same name. LouAnne Johnson , a retired U.S. Marine, applies for a teaching job at Parkmont High School in California, and is surprised and pleased to be offered the position with immediate effect. Turning up the next day to begin teaching, however, she finds herself confronted with a classroom of tough, sullen teenagers, all from lower-class and underprivileged backgrounds, involved in gang warfare and drug pushing, flatly refusing to engage with anything.
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| Release date: | August 11, 1995 |
| Directed by: | John N. Smith |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 99 Minutes |
| Producer: | Don Simpson, Jerry Bruckheimer |
| Editor: | Tom Rolf |
| Music by: | Wendy and Lisa |
| Cinematography: | Pierre Letarte |
| Screenplay by: | Ronald Bass |
| Adapted from: | My posse don't do homework |
| Genre: | Thriller |