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'Teachers' fails
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on real issues
Hey, the formula must have
looked commercial if nothing
else. Get a decent cast, an
episodic script (largely comedy,
with a few “dramatic” bits
thrown in for prestige), an
overbearing soundtrack of soon
to-be-on-AM-radio pop songs and a director with
as much style as a jar of mayonnaise. Then, just to
give a little dimension, pretend to tackle some
real issues.
Ostensibly, Teachers is about a high school
as bad as most. A kid who graduated years ago is
suing because he is a functional illiterate; school
discipline is so poor that a student can actually
bite a teacher's hand, steal his desk and then his
car; and a gym teacher gets numerous young
students pregnant.
Sounds promising, I thought to myself: Let’s •
see how they solve these problems. Do they ex
; plore the inadequacies of the system? Or dig into
the bureacratic jungle that sets the inane policies?
Or even attempt to look into public apathy?
No.
Writer W.R. McKinney and director Arthur
Hiller decide that the perserverence of a few good
teachers will win over the students and inspire
them to shape up. Right.
Not even Nick Nolle can convince me that
this is the answer to our problems. Even when he
risks his job to get a girl an abortion, all he affects
is the symptom, not the disease.
Apart frorb that, the film is only moderately
entertaining. Nolte is fun and Richard Mulligan
pulls off a great characterization as a mental out
patient who mistakenly becomes a substitute
teacher; but the rest of the cast is so-so. The
humor is inconsistent and the direction
uninspired. Worst of all,. the pop soundtrack in
trudes'at the worst times. • .
• Teachers belies its principles! What begins
as a hard, liberal examination of the American
education system-becomes a slick, Gandy-coated
placebo. And it doesn’t even taste good.
.. . SeanAxmaker
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