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Patricia Heaton does a very good job, partly because I didn't even know who he was. I know her mainly from "Back to You" and clips of "Everybody Loves Raymond".
Mike Pniewski has only a few lines, but as the principal who changed Brad's life, he is outstanding.
Sarah Drew does a very good job as Nancy, the girl who accepts Brad as he is and may go on to be more than just a girlfriend.
I only have one criticism. Does Brad really make those noises THAT often in real life? He says it's mainly when he's nervous, but I think the writers could have cut back a little when he wasn't.
This is definitely worthy of the name Hallmark Hall of Fame.
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with a person with tourettes, this movie moved me., 8 December 2008
Author: video_game_lover_122 from United States
one word to describe it. Wow.
Front of the class is about the true story of a kid with tourettes who's lifelong goal is to become a teacher but has to overcome his obstacles with tourettes. with a dad that never accepted him as a son, kids who don't know anything about the desease and all the things in between but what made this movie great was the determination to not only people with tourettes or a disability but people who dog you by saying your no good for this or you will never amount to anything. the movie has good acting and the determination that goes along with the movie and the cast is top notch. this movie has heart, and with a guy that has tourette syndrome, i could relate and it kept me keeping all hope going and pursue my dreams. defiantly worth a watch if your curious about tourettes, or just a great drama that sucks you in.
10/10. HIGHLY recommended.
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Fantastic Movie, and even better person, 17 January 2009
Author: jlclark44 from United States
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We had the great honor and pleasure of meeting Brad at a weekend long retreat for families dealing with Tourette's that he hosted over Halloween weekend, our 6 yr old was diagnosed last spring. He is truly an inspiration, and the movie only scratches the surface of how wonderful a person he really is.
As for the question of if he makes the noises that often, from the 2 1/2 days we were around him, yes it is that often if not even more often.
In the auditorium scene if you look you will see a quick shot of a teacher in a white shirt and tie standing in the back, that is Brad. He was only able to stay for a minute so his ticks didn't interfere with the movie.
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Dominic in the Santa movies and on NCIS as the boy scout.
I will only support the Tourette cause, I hope the real Brad Cohen stays happy and is a true role model for anyone with disabilities.
I hope you will do a follow-up movie. I would like to see more from Jimmy and of course Dominic.
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5 out of 5 people found the following review useful:
Interesting, Well Performed Film-However, Truth Needs to be Said., 6 February 2010
Author: MSaxe from United States
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Hallmark Hall of Fame movies are always interesting and heart-tugging. This one is no exception. It features fine performances by veterans Treat Williams and Patricia Heaton-they're always good. Williams makes an unsympathetic character, one easy to dislike-a human. He makes him human, you understand his feelings, his point of view. Its truth in acting-its a great performance. Heaton is inspiring and delightful. She takes the easy role of "Mom as Hero" and makes it so much more rich and in-depth.
However, the stand out performances in this are by Dominic Scott King and Jimmy Wolk as Young and Adult Brad Cohen. Both do a simply amazing job incorporating Cohens Tourettes tics into their acting. Considering the fact that this was Wolks first leading role out of college and Kings youth, its simply extraordinary. They're incredible.
The film is well written (although does it really need the dying kid?) with moments of humor, inspiration, and more. The ignorance of people is astounding, their casual cruelty towards Cohen and his syndrome shows how truly awful so-called "good people" can be when something seems strange or different to them. This is something this film does an excellent job in showing. You want to leap into the screen and pound the people who are unjustly cruel to Cohen. You want to stand by Heaton as his mother and the actor playing his brother Jeff when they stand up to people on his behalf. The film illustrates these uncomfortable and embarrassing moments for Cohen in an excellent way. It does an equally good job showing his worries when it comes to finding love in a relationship and Cohens own frustration at his syndrome. You truly feel sad for him when he tries so hard to control his tics and simply can't. Both Wolk and King do a fantastic job showing every side of Cohens efforts to handle his Tourettes and live his life to the fullest.
The film is well edited, and is directed well. I really have no complaints about any technical aspects of the film.
In case you're wondering about the title of my post-I knew Brad and Jeff growing up in St. Louis. We went to summer camp at Camp Sabra in the Lake of the Ozarks in MO. together, and were in BBYO together as well. Both of them are a few years older than me, so I never really got to know them well at all. However, I have observed Cohens Tou
rettes in person and its not always as extreme as it was in the film. I admit, as a young kid (9-10) I was sometimes scared and frustrated by his tics. However, when I learned that he couldn't control it-I was shocked and felt terrible. I learned to get used to it and expect it when I was in a place with him. For the most part, both he and Jeff were pretty cool guys. Though sometimes, they could be jerks. Especially Jeff-he was something of a bully with a chip on his shoulder as I remember. But as I have learned-that's just being human-and especially being a teenager. We're all jerks sometimes. I knew that they wouldn't show this in the movie, so its not like I'm crying "J'accuse!". I just wanted to put that out there. "The more you know" you know. Regardless of what I think about the "real" Brad and Jeff Cohen, its a fine TV movie.
What Cohen has done with his life is a great story-worthy of Hallmark Hall of Fame. I just wish as an actor, I could have been in this movie or at least auditioned for it. Its a major bummer because its a good film about people who I have actually met.
Considering that Wolk was practically just out of college, had never had such a large role in a film before, was working with two seasoned vets like Heaton and Williams, and is maybe a decade or so younger than the "real" Brad Cohen, I am even more impressed with his performance watching it again than I was before.
A nice family film, and a great true story.
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Informative, inspiring, insightful, and above all, touching, 8 December 2008
Author: salmon_lox from United States
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Especially around the holidays, I often enjoy nothing better than curling up in a comfy chair and watching a cheesy, predictable, heartwarming Hallmark movie. However, I must say I was surprised at the quality and power of this simple made-for-TV movie. Based on the true story of Brad Cohen, "Front of the Class" follows Brad as he strives to become, if not the first, certainly one of the first and the few schoolteachers with Tourette's syndrome; throughout this narrative Brad recounts his childhood growing up with the disorder.
The movie is very insightful into living with such a difficult disorder. Most of Brad's experiences, particularly the childhood ones, are outright shocking, and rather startling to me personally, as I never realized how recently people (doctors and therapists included) have begun to understand Tourette's. Brad's teachers are ignorant of his condition and intolerant, believing him to be willfully disruptive, he faces constant ostracism in public and ridicule from his classmates, one of his mother's acquaintances even recommends exorcism. I admit I did not know enough about the disorder and learned a lot from the movie. Tourette's is s
o much more than just "those people who shout swear words". Brad is very upbeat, understanding people's discomfort and is eager to talk to them about his condition, letting them know that his tics are involuntary and only worsen when he is stressed (i.e. when people insist he stop making the noises or refuse to understand).
The really touching part comes when <*spoiler*> Brad is finally granted a teaching job and his second-grade students prove to be more understanding and accepting than most of their parents and teachers. Brad is a very good educator, and touches many students (one in particular, but I won't spoil any more).
I have a cousin with Tourette's, whose parents are struggling with fully understanding and living with the condition, so this movie hit fairly close to home for me. Though an tearjerker, it's never overly sappy and is rather well-acted. I was also pleased that it was a much more positive look at a disorder than Hallmark's previous effort, "Sweet Nothing in My Ear". I was frustrated at the apparent attitude of that movie that attempts to allow deaf persons (particularly, children) to hear were intolerant and insulting. Though this point is somewhat moot in "Front of the Class", as Tourette's sadly has no "cure", I think Brad's attitude was made clear when he walked out on a "Tourette's support group" full of people and their parents who have given in to their disorder and preferred to be separated from the rest of society. Instead, Brad chooses to conquer ignorance and not let his Tourette's control him. I definitely recommend it.
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Loved this movie, but..., 11 August 2009
Author: (danhughes@) from United States
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1. Frequently in films where the same character is shown as a child and an adult, the two actors bear little resemblance to each other. In this movie, the two actors who play Brad as a child and as an adult looked remarkably alike.
2. Young Brad seldom smiled, and often hung his head in sorrow/self-pity. The older Brad never quit smiling and laughing. The personality change was perhaps a bit too much?
3. Before I watched the movie, I said to myself, "A Hallmark Hall of Fame movie about an elementary teacher. Hmmm. Bet one of the cutest, most vivacious children turns out to have a fatal disease." Sure enough.
Goodness, folks, the film twanged our heartstrings aplenty without THAT.
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A young man overcomes the handicap of Tourette to become a teacher., 24 June 2009
Author: TxMike from Houston, Tx, USA, Earth
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This is a really good story
a Stutterer. I am currently going to school to become a high school English teacher, which scares me to death. Like the character in this movie, Brad Cohen, I am very open about my stutter, and i have felt a lot of the same emotions when dealing with ignorant people or people who tell me that i CAN'T do something because i am not "normal" (whatever that is). I thought this movie was excellent in capturing the emotional aspect of a neurological disorder and i feel as though in my case, as well as in Turourtes, there is not nearly enough knowledge for the public and if they continue to make movies like this one, then perhaps we can have a few less ignorant people in this world.
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"BRILLIANT" ,heart touching and inspiring !!!, 23 September 2010
Author: kratos-saransh from India
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1st of all i would like to thanks the person who shared dis movie with all of us !!!
plot : a person with tourett syndrome determined to reach the goals which he has set up in his life !!
what an amazing ,heart warming movie dis is. A guy filled with hope and optimism tries his best to accomplish his life's aim despite having dis disability......he got many rejections from everywhere but still the only thing which keeps him going is his ambition n will power. I loved dis one.....was waiting to see something like that for months..........probably the most beautiful n inspiring movie iv watched after I AM SAM !!! everyone should see this one.......really touching movie hats off to actor.........brilliant performance by him........just loved him in entire movie .
rating - 9+/10
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Front of the Class is Unrealistic A-1 ***1/2, 8 December 2008
Author: edwagreen from United States
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One common denominator of most films dealing with schoolteachers, they're usually quite good but are totally unrealistic. "Front of the Class" falls into this category.
Marvelously staged with a wonderful cast, the film deals with a young man afflicted with Tourette's Syndrome who wishes to teach.
Based on a true story, the film chronicles the life of Brad Cohen from childhood, where he meets up with unsympathetic teachers. (Naturally, how can they maintain order by having his noises allowed in class?)His father, stoically played by Treat Williams, can't accept the problem and is divorced from mom, Patricia Heaton. Heaton is the diligent mother who researches Tourette's when no one is willing to admit that young Brad is suffering from this illness. Even if they knew, the so called experts don't kno
w how to handle the situation. When Heaton takes Brad to a support group, she quickly pulls him out after hearing a parent saying that schooling these children is a complete waste of time.
Of course, Brad grows up wanting to be a teacher to show that all children can learn and to show that he is the teacher who can accomplish this, while giving the dig that none of his teachers ever understood him. Brad, they may have understood you but they had other children to deal with.
After getting the run-around, Brad finally lands a job teaching 2nd graders when the assistant principal nudges the principal to hire this young man despite his handicap.
Wonderfully, most of the children in the class cooperate while one exceptional child in the class is dying from cancer. Interesting to note that a veteran teacher in the grade "dumped" her most unruly student on Mr. Cohen. Naturally, he is able to handle him because he "understands" him. If only Mr. Cohen came into an urban classroom and saw the realities of the situation.
I guess that Mr. Cohen succeeds because he is the most disruptive influence in the class. The film tries to build bridges and urge cooperation and understanding with people having physical handicaps. If society as a whole were only so tolerant, what a perfect world we'd live in.
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Film that can teach us all, 29 November 2009
Author: jgw321 from Chelmsford, Essex, UK
The story of Brad Cohen's determination to be a school teacher in spite of his Tourette's Syndrome.
I always have a problem with actors playing the part of someone with a handicap, I find it harder to relate to them than I would to someone with a real handicap. After the initial recognition of a handicap in someone, it fades away into the background as you get to know the person. With an actor playing a part it is somehow always in the way, no matter how well they play the role. For me this always spoils the enjoyment in such films, no matter how well they are made.
This film is no exception, there are some cheesy bits, but there is a lot of good acting from the whole cast. I will only pick out one for mention, Sarah Drew playing the girl friend not a very major role, but very well acted. She came through as a thinking, caring young American; like the sort of original founding Americans, full of ideals, spirit and hope for the future that we saw in John Adams.
There are some very moving moments, but overall it is an upbeat film. It was worthy of an 8 were it not for the distraction of the ticks, ironic as Jimmy Wolk has in fact portrayed just what was required; he shows frustration and anger but always with hope and exuberance shining through. It is really my fault that I find his performance distracting, as that was the whole point. I just feel that I would have enjoyed
it more had Brad Cohen played himself.
JG