Mark Thackeray (Sidney Poitier) is a black unemployed engineer, born in the English Guyanna and with a simple and humble origin, who accepts to work as a teacher in an English school. Very poor and undisciplined teenagers compose his class and he has lots of difficulties to approach them. In the end, their students consider Mark as their best friend and dedicate him one of the most wonderful songs in the cinema history. Mark finds that his real vocation is being a teacher and gives up the new job as engineer he has just gotten.
The first time I watched "To Sir with Love", I was twelve years old, and I went at least three times to the movie theater to see this movie again and again. On video, I probably have watched it at least fifteen times more and I do not get tired of this marvelous story. This wonderful movie is in my top ten films list ever. It is sentimental, touching, maybe silly in the present days, but it is also a reference for other movies about the relationship between teacher and rebel students. Michelle Pfeiffer's 'Dangerous Minds', for example, is an updated copy of this story. The direction and cast have an outstanding performance. My vote is ten.
Title (Brazil): "Ao Mestre com Carinho" ("To the Master, with Endearment")
Note: On 14 August 2012, I saw this film again.
Note: On 16 October 2020, I saw this film again.
The first time I watched "To Sir with Love", I was twelve years old, and I went at least three times to the movie theater to see this movie again and again. On video, I probably have watched it at least fifteen times more and I do not get tired of this marvelous story. This wonderful movie is in my top ten films list ever. It is sentimental, touching, maybe silly in the present days, but it is also a reference for other movies about the relationship between teacher and rebel students. Michelle Pfeiffer's 'Dangerous Minds', for example, is an updated copy of this story. The direction and cast have an outstanding performance. My vote is ten.
Title (Brazil): "Ao Mestre com Carinho" ("To the Master, with Endearment")
Note: On 14 August 2012, I saw this film again.
Note: On 16 October 2020, I saw this film again.