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Dangerous Minds

1995 film

Bill Simmons · Shea Serrano · Van Lathan

Aired September 3, 2020

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Approx. transcript time · 01:02:13Read transcript
  • Everyone is in the movie too much to qualify, leaving parents and waiters; the host suggests shifting to who stole the movie, as Chris Ryan proposed last time.
  • Under "who stole the movie", Raul wins, but he is in it too much to be eligible for the Dion Waiters.
  • The principal played by Courtney B. Vance is offered, accepted as fair since he is in only about four scenes.
  • The principal is called one of the most vile movie characters, the "whisper daddy" focused on procedure, whose apathy basically gets a kid killed.
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Dangerous Minds

What’s Aged the Worst?

Title; parents depicted as not wanting their kids in school

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  • The title is disliked: "Dangerous Minds" is imagined as a Simpson-Bruckheimer whiteboard mash-up, with a joke that it should have been spelled with a Z.
  • The low-talking principal played by Courtney B. Vance is disliked; another participant counters that administrators really do talk like that.
  • One participant says it aged terribly and was offensive that the Black parents are shown not caring whether their kids stay in school, as in Lean on Me; he says he has never seen a mother or grandmother who did not want her sons in school.
  • The same participant objects to the pregnant girl's mother scene, saying families try to keep pregnant girls in school.
  • The host reports that LouAnne Johnson liked the film but was upset by the twins' grandmother insulting the teacher; she said she had a good relationship with that woman, both twins graduated, and the filmmakers told her they assumed parents resented her for being white.
  • The host says Johnson semi-disowned the film and bought back her life rights to tell her own version.
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