Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Just doesn't ring true

Muddled, superficial satire of high school politics feels dated already. Nick Nolte (who is OK here) is a yet another Hollywood educator who feels he can make a difference in the school as well as in one boy's life, who graduated as an illiterate. As a comedy is can pass. But as a drama it just falls apart, too often taking the easy way out and leaving mixed feelings at the end. Quite harmless, though Mulligan has a funny role as an escapee from a mental home who is mistaken for a teacher!