Amazon.com video review:
This "To Ma'am with Love" is much more an escapist popcorn
movie than the inner-city document its marketing suggested. Michelle
Pfeiffer plays real-life former Marine Louanne Johnson, a high school
English teacher who meets resistance from kids and administration
alike at a tough urban school in Northern California. Pfeiffer is
good, and her character's overall development even survives various
post-production story cuts. (A romance with Andy Garcia's character
was completely eliminated before release; Garcia is nowhere in sight.)
The actors who play Johnson's students are also fine, and the whole
film becomes the latest in a long tradition of sentimental movies
about teachers who change the lives of kids. --Tom Keogh
