Review №1

Movies. Give a review of the movie “The Ron Clark Story”. Comment on its tagline, “No one believed in them. Except him.”

I would like to speak on the movie “The Ron Clark Story” and comment on its tagline. It is a 2006 TV film, the director of which is Randa Haines and the actors are Matthew Perry, Judith Buchan, Griffin Cork. Its genre is biography and drama. The setting of the story is New York, the USA.

Let me pass on to the plot of the film. The school teacher Ron Clark moves to New York where he wants to find a new job. The only place where he can do it is Inner Harlem Elementary School, where he becomes the teacher of unruled, aggressive and wild sixth-grade students. Ron makes great efforts to help them but those children does not need any interference in their lives. They are rude with the new teacher, refuse to obey him, want him to leave their school. However, Mr. Clark does not give up and countinue to fight with them for them. The teacher wins proving everyone that the student about which nobody cares can achieve everything. This class passes the exams better than anyone in the city.

As for the acting I can say that I was impressed how masterfully the children played their roles. I believed them and felt with them. Especially, I like the characters of Shameika and Tayshawn whose stories were more memorable for me. Mattew Perry is known to me as Chandler from the series “Friends” seemed to me now from the other side. Here he gratefully conveyed the feelings of Ron Clark with all his ups and downs.  Besides, I would like to mention the tagline “No one believed in them. Except him.” And it is absolutely true. He chose them despite the principal’s warnings, he put his heart into these children and only he believed that his students were good little kids with huge problems and who were not interested by adults. Even he was going to give up, Mr. Clark’s assurance in his necessity to these children helped him to stay.  

Speaking about directing I can say that it was really good. The movie was made in 1998 and there were not special effects or super quality picture but it was not necessary at the same time. The story was shown as it was without embellishment: we can see the dirty streets, poor apartments. The atmosphere of the worst suburb of New York was conveyed in the best way.

In conclusion I would like to say that I like this film so much because it shows us strength of mind, true grit, and unlimited belief. Ron Clark is a born teacher, he knows how to behave with the most difficult children and I admire him. I think that almost everyone gave up in this situation but he could cope with any kind of difficulties and became the person who his students love and respect.