Waiting for "Superman"

“The fate of our country won't be decided on a battlefield, it will be determined in a classroom.”

6.9

2010

1h 51m

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.

Key Crew

Director

Davis Guggenheim

Writers

Davis Guggenheim

Billy Kimball

Music

Christophe Beck

Cast (2)

Charles Adams

Self

Jonathan Alter

Self

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