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- MOVIE page: The English Teacher (2013)
- Rate: 5.7/10 total 1,176 votes
- Genre: Comedy | Drama
- Runtime: 93 min
- Director: Craig Zisk
- Stars: Julianne Moore, Michael Angarano, Greg Kinnear | See full cast and crew
- Original Music By: Rob Simonsen
- Soundtrack: People Ain't No Good
- Plot Keyword: Teacher | Female Protagonist
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Plot: An English teacher's life is disrupted when a former student returns to her small town after failing as a playwright in New York. Full summary » | »
Story: Linda Sinclair (Julianne Moore) is a forty-year-old unmarried high school English teacher in the small town of Kingston, Pennsylvania. She shares a small apartment with two Siamese cats and her rich collection of great literature. She maintains no close personal relationships aside from those she has with her favorite authors and stories. Her life is far less complicated than the dramas she devours on the page, and she likes it that way. But Linda's simple life turns an unexpected page when former star pupil Jason Sherwood (Michael Angarano) returns to Kingston after trying to make it as a playwright in New York. Now in his 20s, Jason is on the verge of abandoning art, pressured by his overbearing father, Dr. Tom Sherwood (Greg Kinnear), to face reality and go to law school. Linda can't stand the thought of Jason giving up on his dreams so she decides to mount his play - a dark, angst-ridden, ambitious work - as a Kingston High School production, with flamboyant drama teacher Carl ... Written byCinedigm
Produced By:
- Arnaud Achour known as production executive
- Michael Bederman known as executive producer
- Matthew E. Chausse known as producer
- Philippe Chausse known as co-producer
- Ron Curtis known as executive producer
- Naomi Despres known as producer
- Adi Ezroni known as executive producer
- Ivan J. Fonseca known as associate producer
- Aaron L. Gilbert known as executive producer
- Margot Hand known as co-executive producer
- Ben LeClair known as producer
- Ishay Mor known as production executive
- Patrick Murray known as co-executive producer
- Robert Salerno known as producer
- John Santilli known as executive producer
- Mandy Tagger known as executive producer
- Julianne Moore known as Linda Sinclair
- Michael Angarano known as Jason Sherwood
- Greg Kinnear known as Dr. Tom Sherwood
- Lily Collins known as Halle Anderson
- Fiona Shaw known as Narrator
- Norbert Leo Butz known as Vice Principal Phil Pelaski
- Jessica Hecht known as Principal Trudie Slocum
- Charlie Saxton known as Will
- Nathan Lane known as Carl Kapinas
- Nikki Blonsky known as Sheila Nussbaum
- Sophie Curtis known as Fallon Hughes
- Alan Aisenberg known as Benjamin Meyer
- Sasha Almedia-Beers known as Waitress
- Remy Auberjonois known as Beefy Businessman
- Poonam Basu known as Kirthi
- Jim Breuer known as Narcissist Man
- Brynn Casey known as Linda at age 9
- Marcia DeBonis known as Nurse Terri
- Alexander Flores known as Ed Mckee
- Alan Fox known as Quarterback
- Scott Friend known as Burnout
- Donnetta Lavinia Grays known as Hospital Administrator
- John Hodgman known as Unmotivated Man
- Kevin Hoffman known as Burnout Boy
- Anthony Ippolito known as Blowdried Jock
- Peter Y. Kim known as Mike the Orderly
- Katie Meinholt known as Young Linda Sinclair
- Frankie Moschetto known as Jealous Nerd
- Marlee Roberts known as Cheerleader Girlfriend
- Olivia Salerno known as Parking Lot Kid #1
- Oscar Salerno known as Parking Lot Kid #2
- Gerritt Vandermeer known as Handsome Man
- Erin Wilhelmi known as Joni Gerber
- Nicole Wilson known as New Wife
- Colin Holmes known as High School Student (uncredited)
- Kenneth Kopolovicz known as Parent (uncredited)
- Alex Montaldo known as High School Drama Student (uncredited)
- Georgy Timofeev known as Jorge (uncredited)
- Alex Ursino known as High School Drama Student (uncredited)
Production Companies:
- Artina Films
MPAA: Rated R for language and some sexual content
The English Teacher (2013) Review by Tony from United States
The bespectacled, wrapped-too-tight spinster, Julianne Moore, is anarchetypal schoolmarm with a fire down below living a life of quietdesperation. Until a former student, a failed playwright, with theright poker (pun intentional) arrives in town with a play no one wantsto see. Teach flips over the play and pushes the Drama Club to mount itas the complications pile up.
Ms. Moore is simply superb here. She's a national treasure andwoman-of-a-certain-age Hollywood still calls. And rightfully so.Although pony tailed and covered head-to-toe as "The English Teacher,"she's still hot!
Teach judges men she dates with stream-of-consciousness displayed ason-screen text. She's abetted by a proper British narrator, Fiona Shaw,who adds an element of Gothic Romance to this tasty stew.
The Drama Club is run by a terrific Nathan Lane, a failed BroadwayStar, who delivers the funniest lines in his trademark condescendingdryness. Kudos also to Jessica Hecht and Norbert Leo Butz as Principaland Vice who take exception to the play's dark ending and demand arewrite. Add a serviceable Greg Kinnear who easily handles his role asthe playwright's Doctor Dad.
The play, "The Chrysalis," is received as having a universal theme allpeople relate to as if it were written specifically about/for them. Thebroad interpretation is Ms. Moore, by film's end, has broken out ofchrysalis to butterfly. (Much to the consternation of the narrator whounsuccessfully attempts to talk Teach out of a date with Kinnear.)Scratching beneath the surface, students of Literature and Drama mightfind the film mildly thought provoking.
Ms. Moore's arc is predictable, but the journey remains a lot of fun.
Though a bit lightweight, with a great cast, a smart, funny andintelligent script, there's little to dislike about "The EnglishTeacher." One hopes Ms. Moore will keep you after class.
The English Teacher (2013) Review by Steve Pulaski from United States
The English Teacher is a great film for many reasons, but one of themis it touches on a subject that is so often ignored and undermined inthe world. That subject is exercising a passion for something thatdoesn't amount to anything. It is one of the greatest personaltragedies in life, and those who experience it are likely to loseconfidence in themselves and in the world. No longer does your passionbecome a gift but a curse once you realize you may not or are not ableto do anything with it.
This strikes a personal chord with me; someone who excels in writingand creativity but flounders with math and science in acomputer/arithmetic driven society. The last five years, I'vemaintained great relationships with my English teachers, who I've helddearly to my heart in school as they guided me and supported me throughmy ongoing career in writing. The thought that this may never amount toanything but a personal hobby is a frighteningly upsetting one, butit's a reality I've too-long ignored. Even if this turns into nothingelse than an outlet for self-satisfaction and personal fulfillment, Ihave greatly enjoyed the ride.
Moreover, The English Teacher concerns Linda Sinclair (Julianne Moore),a high school English teacher in the small town of Kingston,Pennsylvania. She's in her mid-forties, unmarried, and content with herposition in the world, going through a textbook routine of eatinghealthy, watching Television, and trying to enrich her students withthe wonders of classic literature. She discovers one of her oldstudents, Jason Sherwood (Michael Angarano), who she recalls as one ofthe greatest writers she ever had, is back in town and living with hisdomineering father Tom (Greg Kinnear). Jason reveals to her that aftergoing to New York to major in dramatic writing, success has seeminglypassed him by and he has taken his father's advice to go to law school.Jason clearly loathes this idea, and subtly winces when he says thatwriting makes him nauseous, but Linda can't see him throwing away hislong-pursued hobby for the redundancy of being a lawyer.
Jason gives Linda a copy of "The Chrysalis," a play he wrote that heshopped around to no avail. She reads it, cries her eyes out, shows itto the drama teacher (Nathan Lane), he highly regards it, they forcethe school to allow it as this year's school play, and they reluctantlyaccept - but they demand the tragic suicide ending be changed. Lindaburies this small point when disclosing the contract to Jason, whoapproaches the idea of his play being made with great hesitation. Inthe meantime, passions begin to flare between the confidence-deprivedwriter, the repressed, unfulfilled English teacher, and one of theleads in the play leading to much stress amidst the cast.
Julianne Moore gives a career-making performance as Linda, a role thatis made more complex by including the ideas that she is in fact happywith her life position, regardless of the fact that the spark is fadingdimmer and dimmer. When she is suddenly given more responsibility whenJason's play commences, we see that she may have not been lying as shehandles the pressure with great uncertainty and frustration. MichaelAngarano, who earlier this year did great work in the quirky,effervescent Brass Teapot, terrifically captures the essence of astruggling writer in search of a voice and heart. And while somewhatshortchanged, Greg Kinnear is never a problem to see turn up in anyfilm.
When you really think about it, a job as an English teacher is prettyunforgiving. I can show you how to do a math problem and, since there'sa set of rules and specifics to obtain a certain solution, solving itinvolves direction and not creativity. English and writing, on theother hand, are harder to teach. You can teach formatting, punctuation,and sentence structure (the redundancy of subjects, predicates, verbs,nouns, adverbs, adjectives, independent, and dependent clauses had mestruggling to stay awake in grade school), but when it comes time toactually write, the weight is all on you on how you approach a subject.Formatting you can teach, but creativity you can not. I can tellsomeone how to properly use punctuation, but I can not tell them how tostructure an essay accordingly.
I say an English teacher is an unforgiving job because I feel that morethan half of a typical student body feel that writing is a chore. I'mlikely one of the few who actually smiles when told we're going towrite an essay. I can finally express creativity, opinion, and insightfar beyond the confines of the coldness of multiple choice questionsand short answer responses. Writing gives a human range and freedom toexpress thoughts, and I hold that kind of expression dearly to myheart. And when an English teacher assigns kids a book to read, theyalmost have to duck and cover. It's predictable, but at the same timecrushing to hear kids regard classic literature as "a waste of time" or"so pointless." I recall being the only person in my English classes toenjoy the tragic hero in Death of a Salesman and the communistsymbolism in Of Mice and Men.
But I digress. The English Teacher is a terrific film, with beautifultouches of intelligence, craft, soul, and careful storytelling. Therelationship between a teacher and former student is touchinglyportrayed, and the characters seen throughout the film are the kind youregard as friends and colleagues. This is a remarkable picture thatcertainly overcomes its awkward, out-of-place English narration.
Starring: Julianne Moore, Greg Kinnear, Michael Angarano, Nathan Lane,and Lily Collins. Directed by: Craig Zisk.
The English Teacher (2013) Review by aharmas from United States
It's always pleasurable to see talent on the screen. Be that on theshape of a great screenplay, good acting, or a combination of both."The English Teacher" offers both, and this might not make it a perfectfilm, but it's quite enjoyable, funny and heartbreaking, and relativelyfresh. It doesn't resort to vulgarity to make us laugh, and itcertainly reflects the times in an accurate way. It incorporatestechnology without forgetting the human side of the story, and itcenters around a good story.
Enters a lonely English teacher on her way to becoming a certifiedspinster. She tries to find a good man to date and marry, and thechoices are scarce. Before she knows what hits her, she is involvedwith a former student of hers in an scandalous affair, yet thisincident adds a touch of excitement to her life, maybe a little toomuch.
Her world as she knows it, spins out of control, and her students, herhigh school faculty, and a few members of society are quick to crucifyher. Still in the middle of this mess, we have some comic relief, as wediscovers the thin line between drama and comedy. Tears and laughtercoexist very well together, and with Lane in the middle of the crazydrama, we can assure a few good laughs will be there.
So it's not like the classic comedies of the thirties,and sex may be atthe center of the situation, but it's still not far from taking thesocial commentary stance seen in other films where society is quick tojudge, and humans are still quite careless and irresponsible whenrushing into emotional affairs. Moore is in a class by herself as thewoman who holds back her personal passions, only to let herself fallquite hard when she misreads real life versus the experience she findsin the classics. Real life is not that easy to control.
In the end, things do work out, but it's a hilarious ride frombeginning to end, and it's quite a clever script, so enjoy it.
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