"Superman" scene was a set-up
The only problem is, this heart-wrenching scene of hope and anticipation from Davis Guggenheim's film,Waiting for Superman, never really happened. Guggenheim set it up.“It’s two different worlds,” the mother, Maria, tells the filmmaker in an interview interspersed with scenes of the tour, comparing it with her son’s Bronx public school. “I don’t care if we have to wake up at 5 o’clock in the morning in order to get there at 7:45,
then that’s what we will do.”
NYT City Room critic Sharon Otterman, "In 'Waiting for Superman,' a Scene Isn’t What It Seems", asks other documentary filmmakers what they think the scene.
