Waiting for "Superman"
Sep 24 2010
•2h 51m
•Documentary
Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for Superman is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim.
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Charles Adams
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Jonathan Alter
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