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Synopsis: Young Caucasian Dan Dunne teaches history and coaches the girls basketball team at a Brooklyn high school populated primarily by black and Hispanic students. To the chagrin of his superiors, Dan bucks the outlined curriculum of historical facts in favor of the philosophy of historical events, generally discussing the concept of dialectics. As such, he captures the imagination of his students, at least in the classroom. Outside of the classroom, Dan's life is in shambles. He has a distant but cordial relationship with his family. He uses illicit drugs rampantly. Although his former girlfriend Rachel was able to clean up her drug habit, Dan believes that rehab will not work for him. Due to a combination of these issues, he treats women poorly. Thirteen year old Drey is a student in his class and a player on his basketball team. Drey has her own problems. Her parents are divorced, with her father a virtually non-existent figure in her life and her EMT mother generally absent as she is alw
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Ryan Fleck
Production: ThinkFilm
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 29 wins & 47 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Metacritic:
85
Rotten Tomatoes:
90%
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Year:
2006
106 min
$2,591,047
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If a knife could penetrate

"his bulletproof vest

Was killed yesterday

"by a stab wound to the chest.

"witnesses say the man,

Jeff Turner, 32,

"urged his brother,

Scott Turner, 35, to stab him

"as hard as he could, believing

The vest would stop the knife.

It didn't."

So how's

Your opposite somethings?

Pretty good.

Where'd you come up

with that stuff?

It's just a little something

I picked up in college.

A little thick

for the eighth grade, no?

Yeah, yeah, well, you'd think,

but I don't know.

I think they're getting it.

I don't know how you get away

With it though.

You know,

Drey is so textbook.

How's your book?

Don't ask.

There's always the summer.

Do you want to go?

You want to have dinner

with me again?

Okay.

Mm-hmm?

Did you guys hear

that they found

A crack vial in the locker room?

Jesus.

Hmm.

Do they know

whose it is?

Whose it is?

Oh, I don't know.

Hey, you know what?

That's a good idea.

We can put it in the lost

and found to see

if anybody claims it.

Better yet, why don't we put up

flyers with a picture?

What's new?

I don't know.

I can't hear you.

Come over here.

That's a nice cap.

Thanks.

It's Mike's.

Yeah, I know.

Talk to him lately?

He writes sometimes.

How's he doing in there?

All right, I guess.

Well, if he needs something,

Let me know, all right?

I mean, I know people in there.

I could make a call

or whatever, all right?

Okay.

Okay?

Yeah.

All right then.

What, you thirsty, huh?

You want something to drink?

My bike.

Ain't nobody going

to f*** with that bike.

Yo Harvey, this is Drey.

Hey, Tina?

You remember Mike's

little sister, Drey, right?

Oh, hey, sweetie.

Come and sit down.

Let me get that juice for you.

Help yourself.

Come on and sit.

I'll be right back.

Yo, pick a hand.

Left.

Ha, you lose.

Come on.

What's up with that juice?

I'm not thirsty.

Well, don't be a stranger, kid.

You could stop through

and say hello.

Yeah.

You saw Frank today?

Just ran into him.

On September 13, 1971,

Seized control of the prison

and took hostages

To negotiate changes

to their inhumane conditions.

Governor Nelson Rockefeller

ordered a military assault

On the prison which killed

Every one caused

from police gunshots.

An official commission later

Stated, with the exception

Of Indian massacres

In the late 19th century,

The police assault was

the bloodiest one-day encounter

Between Americans

Since the civil war.

Unbelievable.

What are you doing?

Go sit in the desk.

Ten points off.

Second chances are rare, man.

You ought to take

better advantage of them.

Don't let go.

Grab the t-shirt if you need to.

You know, a little elbow here

and there never killed anybody,

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