A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.
Barbara Covett
Sheba Hart
Richard Hart
Steven Connolly
Brian Bangs
Sandy Pabblem
Polly Hart
Ben Hart
Sue Hodge
This is one of those films like a great pasta dish where everything is just right but somehow you still don't feel the restaurant is justified charging $21.95 for a plate of noodles and tomato sauce. The direction is top notch, Cate Blanchett as Sheba Hart is great and Bill Nighy supporting just works. As much as I usually adore Judi Dench's acting, I thought she was a little too one-dimensional in this role. But given her choice, she executed the role with the usual Dench precision. This is a twisted love triangle story with very real characters. If you're the kind that picks up the dirt...
Status Released
Original LanguageEnglish
Budget$15,000,000.00
Revenue $49,814,392.00