Movie Review: Dangerous Minds Dangerous Minds is a movie about education at a mostly white and upper middle-class California public school where poor urban teenagers of color are bused in for a “supposedly” equal chance. These undisciplined but energetic and passionate students have been “ghettoized” into the Academy program where no sane teacher would tread except for ex-Marine LouAnne Johnson, played by Michelle Pfeiffer. Leaving a nine-year military career LouAnne Johnson is eager for employment as an English teacher but she doesn't realize what she has gotten herself into. She bribes and cajoles her students into learning, bucks the system, ignores