"Director: John N. Smith"

• Dangerous Minds | DVD | (05/02/2001) from £6.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (128.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  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

• A Cool, Dry Place | DVD | (18/06/2007) from £9.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Sometimes you need to lose it all before you find out what matters most. Handsome attorney (Vince Vaughn) is caught in the middle of a romantic triangle forced to choose between his estranged wife (Monica Potter) and his sexy young girlfriend (Joey Lauren Adams). A Cool Dry Place is a passionate tale of a man torn between the love of his life...and the woman of his dreams.