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.
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Judi Dench
Barbara Covett
Cate Blanchett
Sheba Hart
Bill Nighy
Richard Hart
Andrew Simpson
Steven Connolly
Phil Davis
Brian Bangs
Michael Maloney
Sandy Pabblem
Juno Temple
Polly Hart
Max Lewis
Ben Hart
Joanna Scanlan
Sue Hodge
Julia McKenzie
Marjorie
Director
Richard Eyre
Screenplay
Patrick Marber
Tagline
"One woman's mistake is another's opportunity."
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$15,000,000
Revenue
$49,814,392
Production
Fox Searchlight Pictures, DNA Films, UK Film Council, BBC Film, Scott Rudin Productions, Robert Fox Productions, Ingenious Media
badelf
August 4, 2012
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...
Filipe Manuel Neto
February 26, 2023
**Lust, loneliness and bitterness in an engaging film with two great actresses.** I was very impressed with this film, which combines two huge and very talented actresses and a script full of tension and very well developed. It's not something new or original, and there are a lot of relatively tense films that are set in a school environment. I can quote one that I saw recently, and that I reme...
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