The English Teacher (2013)

R05/16/2013Comedy, Drama, Romance1h 32m
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Refuse to live life by the book.

Overview

Small-town Pennsylvania schoolteacher Linda Sinclair balances her staid home life with an incredible passion for her subject. Then a former star pupil reenters her life after failing as a playwright in New York City. Seeing in his script the inspiration that she has always longed to instill in her students, this dyed-in-the-wool romantic enlists the help of long-suffering drama teacher Carl to mount the work as the high school’s next and riskiest production.

Top Billed Cast

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    Julianne Moore

    Linda Sinclair

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    Michael Angarano

    Jason Sherwood

  3. Cast 1

    Greg Kinnear

    Dr. Tom Sherwood

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    Lily Collins

    Halle Anderson

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    Fiona Shaw

    Narrator

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    Norbert Leo Butz

    Vice Principal Phil Pelaski

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    Jessica Hecht

    Principal Trudie Slocum

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    Charlie Saxton

    Will

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    Nathan Lane

    Carl Kapinas

> Does a former student count...! A perfect role for Julianne Moore. All the other characters were nicely arranged around her's. It was a story based on the high school teacher and her ex-student, joining together for a school project. In the middle part, a wonderful development in the story turns the convincing second half. Some people are not a good listener, they try to finish the sentence before the speech givers. Such small instance, sometime may create a big trouble. Not right away, but it takes time of its own. At some point the truth will meet and all the hell will break out. A m...