Anchor: Craven does good work with the young actors in the classroom scenes, but the film has a reticence common to most biopics and a mushy, TV-movie humanism that blands out its texture.
Entailed: Although Craven's classroom scenes with the young actors were good, his film still had the mushy, TV-movie feel.
Contradiction: Critics favorite part of Craven's film was when Freddy Kreuger killed all the students in the classroom.
Contradiction: A man shoves his hands down the seat of his pants while turning his back on a stove.
Contradiction: A man flips burgers on a grill.
Contradiction: You think they lost all their money?
Contradiction: There is a man and a woman in this picture, and they are outside.