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Date: | 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Fame (a bit outdated, but I remember it causing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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