Waiting for "Superman"
Release date: 2010-09-24
Votes: 136
Genres: 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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