My father was a teacher, so maybe that's why I'm a sucker for the inspirational education genre of movies. Still, most of them - admit it! - are not terribly good. They're always predictable. ALWAYS. The teachers are too heroic, the kids too troubled but brilliant. You could write the script yourself, if only you weren't so lazy.
That's why I was so intrigued by the shockingly realistic French film The Class, which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes and was nominated for best foreign language film at the Oscars (losing to the Japanese film Departures). After I watched it, I was as exhausted as if I'd been teaching these kids myself.
Read my review here, and don't miss this movie.
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