Dangerous Minds

“She broke the rules... and changed their lives.”

Nobody tells Louanne Johnson (Michelle Pfeiffer), a former Marine, why a class of bright teenagers at a notorious inner-city high school has been written off as underachievers, and her first day teaching them goes badly. John N. Smith follows her back into the room the next morning, no longer playing by the rules she was handed. She has her military training and a stubborn will to change these students' lives, and whatever it costs her, she means to see it through.