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1Living a simple life as a teacher in his hometown of North Carolina, Ron Clark (Matthew Perry) feels his calling is to teach children in New York City. Thus begins the The Ron Clark Story, which as milquetoasty as it may get some times, is all the more amazing because it's based on a true story. This gentlemen went into one of Harlem's toughest schools, and despite frank defiance from his students, Clark managed to reach them. In the process he not only turned around their grades but their lives.The Ron Clark Story is an inspirational movie and the kind of thing that could make someone become a teacher.Behind the ScenesThis "Behind the Scenes" featurette gives us interviews with the producers, Matthew Perry, Ron Clark, and other people involved in the story who helped bring this film to the big screen. They discuss the movie, the amazing achievements that Ron Clark has been able to bring off, how the movie got made, and how ultimately, for Ron Clark, the most important thing about the film was that it be true to the kids.Making the GradeMichael Eisner presents Ron Clark with the American Teacher Award. I got pretty darn misty eyed as I watched this, simply because Ron Clark is the kind of person who wears his heart on his sleeve. He burst into tears, went up to the podium, told his East Harlem students that he loved them, and then proceeded to talk from his heart about education and his life.Breaking New Ground: A Ground-Breaking New SchoolRon and the Students in South AfricaShot in a very unslick, home video type way (and this is how it should have been), we get to see Ron Clark and his class in South Africa. The kids talk about really feeling free because they don't feel like people are judging them. Ron Clark at one point leads a class and tells them why his students wanted to come there and meet them. I know that it is meant to look this way, but everyone seems to be genuinely touched by this experience.2Maybe Newton’s missing fourth law of motion states that whenever an offbeat teacher’s antics turn on a classroom of doe-eyed troublemakers to the magic of learning, a principal hailing from the Judge Judy School of No-Nonsense must shake his/her head in the background at said inspirational teacher, only speaking up to reprimand the naïve Everysaint for “getting these kids’ hopes up.” How else to explain the shopworn storytelling cog found everywhere from “Dead Poet’s Society” to “Coach Carter” to “The Ron Clark Story,” a Matthew Perry telepic premiering August 13 on TNT? Is there no principal in the world who’s ever cheered on such efforts? Or even more pressing, don’t these principals ever feel bad for berating such hopeful do-gooding?Likewise, it’s difficult to make a case against “The Ron Clark Story,” a familiar chestnut of a story (based on a true one – who woulda thunk?) so well-meaning and straightforward and even at times spirited, only an unsmiling authority figure could find fault.Matthew Perry plays the titular character, who after four years of teaching at a clean, suburban elementary school, up and leaves to try his hand at a school in East Harlem, where lots of graffiti and lots of hip-hop (but strangely no cuss words) are the order of the day. What’s he thinking here? The movie alludes to his fear of permanence and maybe a need for adventure, but we’re left mostly to fill in the blanks. Indeed, the biggest kudos here goes to Perry himself, for pulling off the something-from-nothing feat of turning a character the script cruelly cheats out of any complexity into an honest-to-TNT-goodness (un)sung hero.Perry’s Ron Clark is not someone who brings Whoopi Goldberg’s sass from “Sister Act 2”, Jack Black’s crass from “School of Rock,” or Antonio Banderas’s class from “Take the Lead” to our problem classroom. As he checks off the list of ICAs (Inspirational Classroom Antics) – performing a rap about U.S. presidents, downing chocolate milk every fifteen seconds during a grammar lecture, double-dutching with the kids, so on – Perry often looks unsure, but willing. He’s playing a version of Chandler Bing (cynicism on mute, manboy charm times two), and quite a welcome, down-to-earth one.In fact, there’s nothing savior-mystical at all about this Stranger Come to Town, and halfway through the movie, a subtly neat realization occurs: the guy’s a square! He’s not someone secretly subversive enough to pump something so idealistic and corny like Ron Clark’s Rules (“Rule #1: We Are Family”) into a disaffected urban classroom. This white-bread golden boy really means it, and – here’s the kicker – has no reason to believe the kids would do anything but play along. Perhaps a wiser screenwriter might have played more with such genuine naiveté.The filmmakers actually devote more time to fleshing out the kid characters, but even then, our curiosities about them are answered in simple A-to-B explanations. Why does Shameika (Hannah Hodson), the classroom’s prime uncooperative spokesbitch, have to play so difficult with the newbie Mr. Clark? Well, later we find out she’s a hardened twelve-year-old mother of three. What’s up with Tayshawn’s (Brandon Smith) anger problem? We’ll chalk it up to an abusive foster father. Like Perry, though, the game child actors do all they can to pour human spirit into characters that, on paper, would have less resonance than a cardboard box.While Perry and his kiddie co-stars work tirelessly to make their characters feel based on true people, the story itself succeeds with surprising deft. The triumphs are small enough to feel realistic, and thus rewarding. Even the standard-issue Big Competition at the movie’s climax is not a statewide sing-and-dance affair, but merely a regional end-of-the-year exam. And the romance subplot involving Clark and an aspiring actress does what it can to shed more light on what little character we’re allowed to witness.“The Ron Clark Story” does not strive to be groundbreaking, or even clever. It knows its material well, it knows we know its material well, and it responds by delivering such a modern American story template with genuine emotion and straightforward panache that its lack of character nuance becomes a minor quibble. This is a story that works precisely because it enters the room with no reason for anyone to take it seriously and thus wins big. It pulls a Ron Clark itself: who on earth could have figured that something so well-intentioned but unoriginal could actually, truly inspire?3Given the penchant for lionizing teachers in lieu of paying them a competitive wage, Clark's diligence shepherding along struggling Harlem school kids has a surprisingly happy ending, inasmuch as he wrote a New York Times bestseller based on the "essential 55 rules" (guidelines about respect and manners, mostly) that he presented to his charges.At the outset, Clark bids farewell to North Carolina and migrates to New York City, determined to make a difference by taking a teaching job in the toughest-of-tough districts. In the interim, he toils as a waiter and falls for an attractive co-worker (Melissa De Sousa) who becomes his sounding board as the kids heap abuse upon him through the first half of the movie.Unlike many films of this variety, there's no real signature moment where the worm turns, which is perhaps more realistic (it's based on a true story, after all) but also obscures what transformed these little hooligans into solid citizens, other than their teacher's commitment. The prevailing message is that no one believed in these kids and they feared abandonment, but that feels facile and a little too "Oprah"-ish, given the woes faced by so many public schools."Nobody wants them, and I do," Clark tells the skeptical principal (Ernie Hudson). "So what's the problem?"There are lots of problems, of course, from winning skeptical parents over to charming hostile kids burdened with adult responsibilities. The most significant of these is Shameika (Hannah Hodson), a natural leader who initially plays a pint-sized version of Louis Gossett Jr.'s role in "An Officer and a Gentleman," trying to wear Clark down until he quits.He perseveres, however, rappin' history in order to make dead white guys relevant and learning to jump rope as a means of bonding with his students, whom he hunts down after hours, on weekends, whenever. Fortunately, Perry is so inherently likable as to elevate the material above this familiar terrain.In keeping with the genre, the action builds toward a climactic test that will demonstrate (or not) how well Mr. Clark has succeeded. And while the movie earns no extra-credit points, TNT can derive some pride from having passed this basic exercise with better-than-average marks.4The Ron Clark Story tells the real-life saga of a North Carolina grade school teacher with an amazing record of success with students; his unique teaching style brings out the best in even the worst students and he tests his mettle in one of the toughest classrooms in America. An exceptionally inspiring movie, The Ron Clark Story is suitable for family viewing and for children 8-years old and up.In the title role, Matthew Perry steps away from his comfortable, and much loved, image of Chandler Bing from Friends to bring us into the world of a gifted teacher, Ron Clark. Having achieved great success with students in his local school system, Ron believes that he can do much more good outside of his small home town, so he moves to New York City, hoping to teach underprivileged kids in the inner city. But being Caucasian is a drawback in Harlem and none of the New York City public schools will hire him. Here Clark exhibits one of his strongest traits: he never gives up, not on his students and not on getting hired. He knows he can make a difference if given the chance. Destiny intervenes one day when he observes a teacher getting rough with a student who is trying to leave campus. The teacher fights with the school's principal and quits, giving Clark the opportunity to let his availability be known. At first he is ignored but finally the principal decides to give him a chance. He is given a class that includes what everyone considers to be the "losers," the worst students in the school. They have the lowest grades, are the most unruly, and the least achieving. But Ron Clark sees potential in every child and will not give up on them.The steps he takes, the approaches he makes, the energy he extends and the devotion he shows produce a wonderful outcome. He reaches the children that everyone, including their parents, had written off. He successfully brings out their strengths: the artist, the scientist, the math wiz. Best of all he makes each of them aware of their own self-worth. He gives them more than an education and a desire to keep on learning; he gives each one the knowledge that they do matter, and that when they put their hearts and minds to it, they can achieve anything.There is very little offensive content in this movie. The only swear words are "lazy ass" and "damn," each said only once. There is one moment of violence involving a foster father beating his foster son, though the actions are off screen. In the following scene Clark finds the boy, with blood on his face, in an alley. Later the boy is shown with a cast on his arm.