To Sir With Love 2
1996
A teacher of thirty years experience takes a job at a run-down multi-racial high school in Chicago and begins teaching the youngsters respect. Read more
| Starring | Sidney Poitier, Fernando Lopez, Daniel J. Travanti, Christian Payton |
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| Director | Peter Bogdanovich |
| Genres | Comedy |
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To Sir With Love 2
A teacher of thirty years experience takes a job at a run-down multi-racial high school in Chicago and begins teaching the youngsters respect.
| Starring | Sidney Poitier, Fernando Lopez, Daniel J. Travanti, Christian Payton, Dana Eskelson, Casey Lluberes, Michael Gilio, L.Z. Granderson, Bernadette L. Clarke, Jamie Kolacki, Saundra Santiago, Cheryl Lynn Bruce, Lulu, Judy Geeson |
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| Director | Peter Bogdanovich |
| Studio | UCA |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 29 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Dubbed | Spanish |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | DVD: 11 Oct 2004 Production year: 1996 |
| Format | DVD |
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Belated and rather pointless sequel to the 1967 original, with a well-preserved Sidney Poitier reprising his role as the teacher, whose quiet dignity instills respect and self-belief in a rowdy class of slum kids. The action is transposed from London to the US, putting teach in touch not with the first film's cute East Enders, but with a clichéd classload of stereotypical hoodlums. Peter Bogdanovich directs with skill, but no great distinction. Poitier looks like he could sleepwalk through this sort of stuff, and probably did.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
One Star Only Because I Like Sidney Poitier!
Terrible....TERRIBLE...awful and absolutely stinko--Sidney--what happened?!! I had no idea they'd made a sequel to To Sir With Love--imagine my surprise and delight when coming across this late at night on tv--I thought Wow! I loved the original so much--this is going to be great. WRONG!! Sidney--you sold out!! I can only assume things were really bad when he agreed to do this bit of crud--I felt truly embarrassed for him. This film has none of the original's klutzy kind of charm, although it has lots of trite cliches, bad acting, and idiotic story lines--the plot is so contrived that you'll laugh out loud at the ridiculous dramatic revelations. The hospital scene is a side-splitter--it's utterly lame. Watch this if you want to amuse yourself--you'll be skipping back to watch some of the worst stuff again, because you'll want to confirm that it really was that bad!
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Although the film has virtually the same storyline as the original film, it was a good film.
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Freedom Writers
- 26 Feb 2007
What is it Judi Dench says in Notes on a Scandal? 'Teaching is just crowd control - we should be a branch of social services.' Imelda Staunton echoes those sentiments here, as an initially sympathetic school principal who becomes increasingly irritated by the dedication and enterprise of new teacher Ellen Gruwell (Hilary Swank). It's not that dedication is a no-no in itself, but Gruwell's devotion to her class of multi-ethnic 14-year-old no-hopers includes working two part-time jobs to... Read more
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