Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for Superman is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim.
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Movie Info
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Director -
Davis Guggenheim -
Producer -
Michael Birtel , Lesley Chilcott -
Screenwriter -
Davis Guggenheim , Billy Kimball -
Distributor -
Paramount Pictures -
Production Co -
Electric Kinney -
Rating -
PG (Some Thematic Material|Mild Language|Incidental Smoking) -
Genre -
Documentary -
Original Language -
English -
Release Date (Theaters) -
Sep 24, 2010, Limited -
Release Date (Streaming) -
Sep 2, 2013 -
Box Office (Gross USA) -
$6.4M -
Runtime -
1h 42m
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