Waiting For Superman

The fate of our country won’t be decided on a battlefield, it will be determined in a classroom.

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.

MPAA: Rated PG for some thematic material, mild language and incidental smoking

Principal Cast: Geoffrey Canada, The Esparza Family and The Black Family

Director: Davis Guggenheim