Dangerous Minds
Former Marine Louanne Johnson lands a gig teaching in a pilot program for bright but underachieving teens at a notorious inner-city high school. After having a terrible first day, she decides she must throw decorum to the wind. When Johnson returns to the classroom, she does so armed with a no-nonsense attitude informed by her military training and a fearless determination to better the lives of her students -- no… From TMDB
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60 of 83 · most liked firstDangerous Minds sucked, but the OG "teaching inner city kids" movie that it and so many others tried to emulate, Stand and Deliver, kicked ass.
unlabelledView post →Dangerous Minds is a white-savior teacher movie. Michelle Pfieffer teaches inner city kids trigonometry or something
unlabelledView post →#CarlsChallenge #MusicChallenge #MusicSky September 30 Song you heard for the first time in a movie. [I have a second bonus entry today.] Coolio ~ Gangsta's Paradise from Dangerous Minds youtu.be/fPO76Jlnz6c?...
unlabelledView post →I think I get what he’s saying. The song was made for the movie Dangerous Minds, which has kinda been criticized for having certain “white savior” tropes in it. Still, they probably could’ve said it in a way that didn’t make them sound like a fucking schizo.
unlabelledView post →#MusicChallenge #MusicPlaces Day 28 - "Gangsta's Paradise" by Coolio This is one of my faves from the 90s. It's on the soundtrack for "Dangerous Minds", which was an excellent film. m.youtube.com/watch?v=SQCS...
unlabelledView post →FORBIDDEN TRUTHS of "DEAD TEENAGERS:" Claire's movie, from Issue 3, was specifically written to be Emily St. James' "Woodworking," if it had been written and directed by someone who only ever saw the "Dangerous Minds" video where Michelle Pfeiffer tries to get through to Coolio
unlabelledView post →Some movies that are 30 years old in 2025: - Toy Story - Apollo 13 - Seven - Bad Boys - Braveheart - Goldeneye - Dangerous Minds - To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar - Mortal Kombat - A Goofy Movie - Tank Girl - Billy Madison - Tales From the Crypt Presents Demon Knight - Friday
unlabelledView post →#Paws4Music Momb thinks Michelle Pfeiffer is so pretty. (I think I’m prettier, though.) Despite her beauty, her role in this video is a little goofy. From the movie Momb calls “Stand and Deliver for poetry instead of math”: Dangerous Minds youtu.be/fPO76Jlnz6c?...
unlabelledView post →#OctoberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky 10/23: Elephant in a movie 🐘 My one memory of this movie is eyeing its poster in the theatre lobby before going in to watch Dangerous Minds. "I don't think we'll be seeing this one" I said to my boyfriend. Prophetic. "Operation Dumbo Drop" (1995)
unlabelledView post →TIL that the movie “Dangerous Minds” was originally titled — no lie — “My Posse Don’t Do Homework”
unlabelledView post →#AprilFilmChallenge #filmsky #moviesky Day 14. A film you've seen on first date. Dangerous Minds (1995) So romantic right, I guess it was here that everything went wrong 😬
unlabelledView post →Fellini originally wanted to cast the Beatles, Mae West, Groucho Marx and Danny Kaye in ‘Satyricon’. (Paul Gallagher - Dangerous Minds) #FedericoFellini #BOTD dangerousminds.net/comments/fel...
unlabelledView post →I rewatched it not that long ago, having remembered it from my early teens viewing as a 'hard hitting' dramatic movie about race in America. Watching it again now...it seemed kind of...laughable. Reminds me a bit of Dangerous Minds..its like a white elder Hollywood types' viewpoint on the issues.
unlabelledView post →Dangerous Minds (1995) Director: John N. Smith Cast: Michelle Pfeiffer, George Dzundza, Al Israel, Wade Domínguez Watch Review wp / ltrbox
unlabelledView post →(1976) Stevie Wonder's "Pastime Paradise ". Coolio adapted the song, releasing "Gangsta's Paradise " in 1995. It was featured in the film "Dangerous Minds". #MusicSky youtu.be/b0S4SiLxt1s?...
unlabelledView post →Favorite movie from each year of the 90s 90 - Goodfellas 91 - Hook 92 - Sister Act 93 - Jurassic Park 94 - Brainscan 95 - Dangerous Minds 96 - Twister 97 - Liar Liar 98 - Blade 99 - The Boondock Saints (** this is only one favorite for each year, I have many more!) #moviesky #filmsky #90s
unlabelledView post →I hear the inflight movie will be Dangerous Minds
unlabelledView post →come check out the latest essay it’s about Dangerous Minds a ridiculous movie that feels exactly like 1995 goodmovie.substack.com/p/dangerous-...
unlabelledView post →They’re saying “Dangerous Minds” which featured the Coolio song was a white savior movie
unlabelledView post →My 13yo, glancing up at the TV just as they put up the movie poster for Dangerous Minds: “Is that… like, super buff Taylor Swift?” Me: “NO BUT THAT MIGHT BE THE BEST COMPARISON BENCHMARK FOR THIS MAN GIVEN HOW MUCH AIRPLAY THIS SONG GOT IN 1995”
unlabelledView post →Absolutely unhinged movie. Imagine if Stand And Deliver or Dangerous Minds turned into Death Wish 3 for the third act. It spawned a bunch of DTV sequels with Treat Williams.
unlabelledView post →they actually have a decent point, the movie in question is Dangerous Minds
unlabelledView post →Just had one of my proudest moments thus far as an educator. Received a Sunday night email from an art history student, saying she had just binged “Ripley” on Netflix and absolutely loved it, thanking me for the recommendation. Basically I’m Michelle Pfeiffer in Dangerous Minds, is my point.
unlabelledView post →A thank you to everyone who is/has posting a #RandomMovieGif Feel free to join in. No pressure for daily posts or to interact. I've updated the details below🙂 Dangerous Minds (1995) (I've just calculated how old this movie is😕)
unlabelledView post →Banty Paradise was a hit single by Coolio prominently featured in the film Dangerous Minds.
unlabelledView post →Dangerous Minds, which is also 30 years old. Movie is terrible, but the song slaps.
unlabelledView post →Post a 90s movie that starts with the letter D? Dangerous Minds (1995) #moviesky #filmsky
unlabelledView post →Stevie Wonder and “Pastime Paradise”. It was of course famously sampled by Coolio for “Gangsta’s Paradise” in 1995. That song featured in the film Dangerous Minds and was America’s biggest hit that year - it also topped the U.K. chart. #sts70s
unlabelledView post →Every teacher I know has a teacher movie they love. "Dangerous Minds", ""Lean on Me", "Stand and Deliver" or "Freedom Writers" are what I usually hear. My teacher movie is "Sunmer School". He just wants to connect with his students and is all about their growth.
unlabelledView post →there was a fucking television series that had Gangsta's Paradise as its theme song it was called Dangerous Minds, it WAS in fact based on a movie, i know that, i know nothing about the movie, i do remember the show V A G U E L Y
unlabelledView post →The 1995 movie "Dangerous Minds" was the story of my real life high school. The story begins 12 years after I graduated, but my sophomore year there was when they started busing in kids from East Palo Alto that drives the story. #FilmSky
unlabelledView post →First movie I saw Natasha Gregson Wagner in was HIGH SCHOOL HIGH with Jon Lovitz and Tia Carrere. Underrated spoof of DANGEROUS MINDS. She played the student that was always pregnant. Saw LOST HIGHWAY after that, which she was in the following year. Hoo-boy, that was some pure David Lynch. #Cinemon
unlabelledView post →Dangerous Minds. I really liked the TV show so then my mom let me rent the movie, as long as we watched it together
unlabelledView post →nw. The Substitute made me want to watch Dangerous Minds. saw it only once, when it came out on VHS, and thought it was a very powerful film - but also I was 13 years old and kind of a bumpkin lol
unlabelledView post →Workshopping my Dangerous Minds-type movie about high-achieving Michael B Jordan moving to the countryside to teach at an underfunded rural school, connecting with the kids via Tracy Chapman and Garth Brooks lyrics.
unlabelledView post →October 5/Day 278 A movie scene that takes place in a classroom with a teacher In Recognition of World Teachers Day #Edwards2026MovieThingChallenge “Dangerous Minds” (1995)
unlabelledView post →Dangerous Minds >>>>>> that’s a good ass movie
unlabelledView post →I'm betting his "Dylan/Dylan" lecture on Dylan Thomas and Bob Dylan will have to be modified now. (It's a DANGEROUS MINDS joke, people...Yes, I know it's a 30-year-old movie, that's the joke!)
unlabelledView post →August 8, 1995: 30 years ago today, Coolio released his multi-platinum hit single “Gangsta’s Paradise” featuring L.V. The song was released on Coolio’s album of the same name, as well as the soundtrack for the 1995 film Dangerous Minds. 🎧: tommyboyrecords.lnk.to/GangstasPara...
unlabelledView post →Tonight's family movie night selection was Dangerous Minds. Hubby and I had seen it before, but this was 18's first time watching it.
unlabelledView post →Dangerous Minds was a film I avoided because in many ways I felt I had already seen the movie simply based on how many times I saw the Coolio music video. 30 yrs later I finally see it + it's pretty bland. Michelle Pfeiffer is fine + the kids are ok. Shoulda just left it at the music video #filmsky
unlabelledView post →Now watching: Dangerous Minds. That Coolio song played so much on Much Music that it completely turned me off watching the movie. But enough time has passed, so I'm giving it a go. #filmsky
unlabelledView post →Name a movie you've given or received hand stuff during. - Dangerous Minds - Jumanji I haven't seen those movies again and couldn't tell you the plots of either one to save my life.
unlabelledView post →a Dangerous Minds type of movie but with dancing. I loved it. the last dance was amazing
unlabelledView post →I'm just seeing this now. I apologize for my late response. This is a fantastic song, and you did a great write-up on it. I love the "Dangerous Minds" movie as well, but that's neither here nor there. 😉 Excellent post, Plucky! 🥰
unlabelledView post →I loved the "Dangerous Minds" movie, too. 😃
unlabelledView post →When this movie came out, one of my co-workers kindly compared me to Michelle Pfeiffer’s character, the teacher in DANGEROUS MINDS. I appreciated the compliment very much.
unlabelledView post →I'd love to see a reverse Dangerous Minds movie. "These prep schools kids showed me waht it means to be a real, G, yo. A real G cares about his community and works to make it better instead of just faking teaching credentials to sell weed to rich white kids."
unlabelledView post →Dangerous Minds, ABC (1996) Based on the movie of the same name, in this drama a former Marine uses unconventional teaching methods to connect with and motivate a class of "difficult" but intelligent high school students. Starring Annie Potts, Tamala Jones Lasted 1 season (17 episodes) #TVsky
unlabelledView post →SNL Sketch pitch: It's an ad for a "Dangerous Minds" style movie only the classroom the brave/terrified/out-of-her-element white schoolteacher is sent to is full of second graders.
unlabelledView post →A key plot point of the movie Dangerous Minds: When a HS student wins a literature contest in his class & gets to eat at a fancy restaurant, he "buys" a jacket (it's probably stolen), but then asks his teacher to miss class to steal stuff to raise money to pay for the jacket, or he'll get killed.
unlabelledView post →Dangerous Minds with Michelle Pfeiffer - so many teachers set off on the wrong path by that film and “I’m teaching Shakespeare through Rap this term”
unlabelledView post →Age yourself with a film you saw in the cinema as a kid. I was eight years old why did my mom take me to see Dangerous Minds
unlabelledView post →Questionable ‘noble savage’ liberal conception of the boys pervades. The economic shifts of the 90s that created jobless delinquency go unexamined. In the end the film becomes another ‘inspirational teacher’ movie a la ‘Dangerous Minds’ (& not as good as ‘To Sir, with Love’)..
unlabelledView post →impromptu movie night on discord tonight! we already did Dangerous Minds and One Eight Seven, so to stay in the same style we got the choice between Freedom Writers and Dead Poets' Society for tonight!
unlabelledView post →This was my very first date movie and I loved it so much. Dangerous Minds : Official Trailer (1995) YT video by FlickNatic
unlabelledView post →I learned this in 1995 by watching the movie Dangerous Minds lmao
unlabelledView post →Romeo + Juliet Romeo Must Die Dangerous Minds going from the Rent OBC to the Rent movie soundtrack
unlabelledView post →#ClassicHits #90sRap This is Coolio (Featuring L.V.) With Gangsta's Paradise. Yes this was the cover of Stevie Wonder's Past Time paradise. Also this was from the film Dangerous Minds.
unlabelledView post →Watched "Dangerous Minds". Yep, I have seen this movie before, under different titles.
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