Posts Tagged ‘teacher-student-relationship’

Notes on a Scandal

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Actors: Dench, Judi | Blanchett, Cate | Georgeson, Tom | Maloney, Michael | Scanlan, Joanna | Parkes, Shaun | Kennedy, Emma | Kumar, Syreeta | Simpson, Andrew | Davis, Philip | Nottingham, Wendy | Empson, Tameka | Skinner, Leon | Nighy, Bill | Temple, Juno
Directors: Eyre, Richard
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Barbara Covett is a veteran and cynical schoolteacher who is close to retirement. She is barely tolerated by her less brilliant and acerbic colleagues who know nothing about her private life which consists mainly of taking care of Portia, her aging cat, and spending countless hours alone. The only means she has found to take the edge off her desperate loneliness is writing in her journal. When Sheba Hart, a younger, attractive woman, joins the faculty as an art teacher, Barbara watches her from afar and has nothing but caustic things to say in her diary about her clothing and her care-free manner. Despite her disdain for this woman, Barbara finds herself reaching out to her. Sheba responds by inviting her to dinner at her house to meet Sheba’s lecturer husband, who is twenty years her senior, and their two children, a sexy and rebellious 16-year-old daughter and a younger boy with Downs Syndrome. Instead of opening herself to these people, Barbara immediately sees them as competition to be beaten in the battle for Sheba’s attention. Later, when Barbara discovers her new friend in a classroom having sex with Steven, a 15-year-old from the school who has artistic talent; she realizes that knowledge of this secret gives her power over Sheba which she can use for her own purposes. Barbara promises to not tell anyone but insists that the affair must end immediately. Sheba says she will but finds herself drawn back to the boy again and again. Sheba seems uneasy with Barbara’s friendship and is appalled when she discovers the older woman might have a sexual interest in her. The tenuous relationship between the two women reaches a crisis point when Barbara’s cat is dying and she asks Sheba to go with her to the vet. She chooses to go with her family to see their son in a play instead. In revenge, Barbara sets in motion the scandal that will rock both their lives in ways they never imagined.

Number 23, The

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Actors: Carrey, Jim | Madsen, Virginia | Lerman, Logan | Huston, Danny | Lynn Collins | Mitra, Rhona | Arthur, Michelle | Pellegrino, Mark | Butcher, Paul | Stifel, David | Stoll, Corey | Lauter, Ed | Kotsur, Troy | Soo Hoo, Walter | Belcher, Patricia
Directors: Schumacher, Joel
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On his birthday, Walter Sparrow, an amiable dog-catcher, takes a call that leaves him dog bit and late to pick up his wife. She’s browsed in a bookstore, finding a blood-red-covered novel, a murder mystery with numerology that loops constantly around the number 23. The story captivates Walter: he dreams it, he notices aspects of his life that can be rendered by “23,” he searches for the author, he stays in the hotel (in room 23) where events in the novel took place, and he begins to believe it was no novel. His wife and son try to help him, sometimes in sympathy, sometimes to protect him. Slowly, with danger to himself and to his family, he closes in on the truth.

North Country

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Actors: Theron, Charlize | Peterson, Elle | Curtis, Thomas | McDormand, Frances | Bean, Sean | Harrelson, Woody | Renner, Jeremy | Jenkins, Richard | Spacek, Sissy | Cada, James | Schwimmer, Rusty | Emond, Linda | Monaghan, Michelle | Henke, Brad William | Armenante, Jillian
Directors: Caro, Niki
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A semi-fictionalized account of a long legal battle of group of women miners who endured a hostile work environment and numerous and continuous insults and unwanted touching when they became the first women to go work at the Eveleth Mines in Minnesota.

Back to School

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy
Actors: Dangerfield, Rodney | Kellerman, Sally | Young, Burt | Gordon, Keith | Downey Jr., Robert | Whitehead, Paxton | Farrell, Terry | Walsh, M. Emmet | Adrienne Barbeau | Zabka, William | Beatty, Ned | Darden, Severn | Kinison, Sam | Picardo, Robert | Vonnegut Jr., Kurt
Directors: Metter, Alan
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Millionaire businessman Thornton Melon is upset when his son Jason announces that he is not sure about going to college. Thornton insists that college is the best thing he never had for himself, and to prove his point, he agrees to enroll in school along with his son. Thornton is a big hit on campus: always throwing the biggest parties, knowing all the right people, but is this the way to pass college?

Thumbsucker

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Actors: Pucci, Lou Taylor | Swinton, Tilda | D'Onofrio, Vincent | Reeves, Keanu | Bratt, Benjamin | Garner, Kelli | Vaughn, Vince | Offerle, Chase | Goldhor, Dakota | Kirn, Walter | Koenig, Kit | Lucht, Sarah | Entena, Arvin V. | Normington, Eric | Go, Allen
Directors: Mills, Mike
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Justin (Lou Taylor Pucci) is a teenager boy, who has an oral obsession with his thumb. His mother (Tilda Swinton) seems to be a normal housekeeper, but she has her own obsessions as well, like a crush on a TV-star (Benjamin Bratt). The only person who’s aware of Justin’s problem is his father (Vincent D’Onofrio), manager in a store, but none of his advices seem to be working for Justin. The kid is signed up in a debate workshop, but the thing isn’t going well, because he has his mind in a pretty classmate and, of course, in his thumb, affecting all the rest of his classes. So, Justin is a loner kid in the school, who prefers to lock himself in the bathroom and suck his thumb. Justin’s dentist (Keanu Reeves), a mystical-hippie person, will try to help to overcome his thumb problem, through the hypnosis. But the school’s psychologist will diagnose Justin with the Attention Deficit Disorder, and will prescribe him some drugs. Suddenly, Justin’s problem with his thumb will disappear, becoming an hyperactive genius, winning several debate contests and the admiration from his teacher (Vince Vaughn). Nevertheless, more serious problems will come for Justin with his mother, his father and with a drug addiction.

American Haunting, An

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Actors: Sutherland, Donald | Spacek, Sissy | D'Arcy, James | Hurd-Wood, Rachel | Marsh, Matthew | Fell, Thom | Thorne, Zoe | Brown, Gaye | Alexander, Sam | Brown, Miquel | Dobtcheff, Vernon | Shim, Shauna | Stan, Madalina | Hurdwood, Philip | Cruceru, Vlad
Directors: Solomon, Courtney
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In 2006, in Red River, Tennessee, a teenager has frequent nightmares. Her mother reads an old letter from 1817 written by her ancestor, Lucy Bell. After a dispute of lands judged by the church, her husband John Bell is cursed by his opponent Kathe Batts, who has a fame of being a witch. From this moment on, an entity threatens John and her daughter Betsy Bell, attacking the girl during the nights. With the support of Betsy’s school teacher Richard Powell, who tries to find rational explanations for the manifestation; her brother John Bell Jr.; and their friend James Johnston, who unsuccessfully tries to exorcize the entity from the house, the family does their best to protect Betsy in the haunted house.

Save the Last Dance 2

Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Music | Romance
Actors: Miko, Izabella | Short, Columbus | Bisset, Jacqueline | Dollar, Aubrey | Brennan, Ian | Brooks, Maria | Watling, Matthew | Amendra, Roshan | J, Ray | Ne-Yo | Bell, Ashley Evelyn | Rains, Ashleigh
Directors: Petrarca, David
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The dearest dream of Sara Johnson (Izabella Miko), a fragile white girl from a small town, was to attend Juilliard’s dance school in New York and become a famous ballerina. But the fate decreed otherwise and Sara had to abandon her dream. She moved in with her estranged father Roy (Terry Kinney) to Chicago ghetto and began attending high school where the overwhelming majority of students were African-American. However, she became fast friends with nice guy Derek Reynolds (Sean Patrick Thomas) and his beautiful sister Chenille (Kerry Washington) who invited her to a hip-hop dance club. While on the dance floor, Sara found that her dancing was the source of laughter, and then Derek offered to teach her the art of hip-hop dance. Sara proved to be a capable student but unexpectedly realized that she had a case of “jungle fever.” The girl’s teacher became her sweetheart…

Strangers with Candy

Friday, August 24th, 2007
Genres: Comedy
Actors: Sedaris, Amy | Sedaris, Paul | Wilson, Chandra | Thomas, Kristy | Finley, Dee | Rush, Deborah | Holm, Ian | Hedaya, Dan | Cross, Joseph | Harnois, Elisabeth | Dziena, Alexis | Dumeng, Ivette Diaz | Alban, Carlo | Hollimon, Greg | Ubarry, Hechter
Directors: Dinello, Paul
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A prequel to the critically acclaimed series featuring Jerri Blank, a 46 year-old ex-junkie, ex-con who returns to high school in a bid to start her life over.

Raise Your Voice

Monday, May 7th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Music | Romance
Actors: Duff, Hilary | James, Oliver | Keith, David | Davis, Dana | Lewis, Johnny | Wilson, Rita | Mayhew, Lauren C. | Dennings, Kat | Ritter, Jason | De Mornay, Rebecca | Corbett, John | Reeves, Carly | Avery, James | Trebor, Robert | Palmer, Steven T.
Directors: McNamara, Sean
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Hilary Duff stars in Raise Your Voice as a young woman from a small town who spends the summer in a performing arts school in Los Angeles. She encounters big city circumstances and romance that challenge her small town upbringing. Sean McNamara directs.

Bee Season

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Actors: Gere, Richard | Binoche, Juliette | Cross, Flora | Minghella, Max | Bosworth, Kate | Fischer, Corey | Zuckerman, Sam | Mankin, Joan | Mackenzie, Piers | Holt, Lorri | Leonard, Brian | McGraw, Kathy | Evans, John | Mullally, Alisha | Charles, Olivia
Directors: McGehee, Scott | Siegel, David
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11-year-old Eliza Naumann comes from an odd family; they all divert their emotional frustrations into secret channels. When Eliza unexpectedly begins winning spelling bees, what had been a stable dynamic within the family becomes disrupted; long held secrets emerge, and a latent spiritual yearning is awakened in her withdrawn father Saul and compulsive mother Miriam. As Eliza moves closer and closer to the national spelling bee, the Naumann family finds itself in a spiral of surprising discovery and jarring uncertainty…