The English Teacher

2013
15
1h 33m

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5.7/10

13K

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Julianne Moore in The English Teacher (2013)

An English teacher's life is disrupted when a former student returns to her small town after failing as a playwright in New York.

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An English teacher's life is disrupted when a former student returns to her small town after failing as a playwright in New York.An English teacher's life is disrupted when a former student returns to her small town after failing as a playwright in New York.An English teacher's life is disrupted when a former student returns to her small town after failing as a playwright in New York.

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Trivia
Lily Collins (Halle Anderson) previously costarred with other actors from this movie: Nathan Lane (Carl Kapinas) in Mirror Mirror (2012) and Greg Kinnear (Dr. Tom Sherwood) in Stuck in Love. (2012), in which both films came out the same year.

Goofs
When Linda and Jason are first in the boys dressing room discussing the play, there is a poster behind Linda which is misspelled - it reads KIGNSTON PLAYERS.

Quotes
[first lines]
Narrator: Linda Sinclair had reached her 45th year, an unwed high school English teacher, with no prospect of marriage. Hers appeared to be a rather ordinary life, one of discipline, frugality, small indignities. Modest hopes, and disappointments.

Crazy credits
In the beginning of the end credits, select letters A through D, and one I, are capitalized and circled, as if grades were being assigned.

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Written by Árni Árnason, Freddie Cowan, Pete Robertson, and Justin Haywood Young
Performed by The Vaccines

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Featured review

10/10

Charming & funny - a real gem

This is one of those indie movies that is much better than many big budget feature film comedies.

The story combines original comedy, a touching partly dramatic climax and a feel good plot that comes together perfectly. The comments on screen are an original touch. No wonder such a top notch cast appears in it.

The performances are stellar. Julianne Moore gives a wonderfully varied and moving performance as a spinster English Teacher in high school who mounts the play of an ex student played by Michael Angarano. She can do comedy just as well as she does drama and biopics.

The supporting cast includes Broadway veterans Jessica Hecht and Norbert Leo Butz as school principals, Nathan Lane as the diva of a drama teacher, the lovely Lily Collins as a high school student and aspiring actress and finally Greg Kinnear as the young playwright's father.

This is one of the best indie comedies in years and deserves much more critical acclaim and financial success than it received. Look forward to seeing more from the screen writing duo who penned the story.