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Look at Life is a 1965 one-minute [1] short student film by George Lucas, produced for a course in animation while Lucas was a film student at USC Film School. [2] The film's running time of exactly one minute was required by the course. This was the first film made by George Lucas, [3] and was heavily influenced by Canadian filmmaker Arthur ...
The film seems to focus on stereotypes of the study habits and social behaviors of students from these different countries. For example, the story looks at American students' natural proclivity to extra-curricular activities like student government and sports teams versus Chinese and Indian students' dedication to additional prep work and ...
The Wave is a made-for-TV movie directed by Alex Grasshoff, based on The Third Wave experiment put on by teacher Ron Jones to explain to his students how the German populace could accept the actions of the Nazi regime. [1] It debuted October 4, 1981, and aired again almost two years later as an ABC Afterschool Special.
3) Cady Heron in "Mean Girls" Being the new kid in school definitely isn't easy, yet somehow Cady Heron (a transplant from the wilds of Africa) manages to rise to the top of the social food chain.
The movie was successful in German cinemas, and 2.3 million people watched it in the first ten weeks after its release. In the film, a history teacher starts an experiment in manipulation of the masses, while trying to teach his class about autocracy. The students unwittingly start embracing fascism.
An Education is a 2009 coming-of-age drama film based on a memoir by journalist Lynn Barber.The film was directed by Lone Scherfig from a screenplay by Nick Hornby, and stars Carey Mulligan as Jenny, a bright schoolgirl, and Peter Sarsgaard as David, the charming man who seduces her.
The movie gives the impression that the incident occurred in the second year Escalante was teaching, after students from his first year took a summer session for the calculus prerequisites. In fact, Escalante first began teaching at Garfield High School in 1974 and taught his first Advanced Placement Calculus course in 1978 with a group of 14 ...
The Perfect Score is a 2004 American teen comedy-heist film directed by Brian Robbins and starring Chris Evans, Erika Christensen, Bryan Greenberg, Scarlett Johansson, Darius Miles, and Leonardo Nam. The film focuses on a group of six New Jersey high school students whose futures will be jeopardized if they fail the upcoming SAT exam.