The life of Louanne Johnson, an ex-marine, who has been separated from her husband, as she is divorced, the thing that affects badly on her life, as she struggles against earning her livings, has been changed completely, after taking a temporary job as a high school teacher, as she struggles against dealing with the arrogant students.
The tale screenwriter Ronald Bass came up with, and the way director John N. Smith tells it, is stereotypical, predictable and simplified to the point of meaninglessness.
The movie pretends to show poor black kids being bribed into literacy by Dylan and candy bars, but actually it is the crossover white audience that is being bribed with mind-candy in the form of safe words by the two Dylans.
Pfieffer is absurdly miscast: Sly Stallone would make a more plausible Mr. Chips than the frail, squeaky actress does a nine-year veteran of the Marine Corps.
