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Shari Rosenblum <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 3 Feb 1994 18:36:13 EST
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I agree with John Magee that The Breakfast Club is flawed -- but I still
think it could raise issues in a classroom, including how unrealistic the
resolution is (and maybe, why none of the kids, all successful as teens,
have made it as grown-ups ... )
 
Other suggestions I have:
                         Fame (a bit outdated, but I remember it causing
                               a stir with kids in Paris in 1981 ...)
       Some Kind of Wonderful (I'm not pushing John Hughes .... and it
                               may be damning that Roger Ebert waxes
                               poetic about it ... )
           Stand and Deliver (maybe it's more about teaching, but it handles
                              expectations (low and high), obstacles to
                              success, and success. It also deals with
                              parents not understanding in a real-life
                              sort of way)
             Swing Kids (it's Nazi Germany, but it's pride and peer
                              pressure and music as expression -- and it
                              stars the kid who killed himself in Dead
                              Poets Society. I liked it.)
 
                                                    Shari L. Rosenblum

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