Rotten
A potentially incisive character study is buried under layers of fluff in The English Teacher.
Adam Nayman, Globe and Mail
The English Teacher
Refuse to live life by the book.
2013 · 1h 32m · R
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by
Craig Zisk
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.
Director and cast
- Craig Zisk Director
- Julianne Moore as Linda Sinclair
- Michael Angarano as Jason Sherwood
- Greg Kinnear as Dr. Tom Sherwood
- Lily Collins as Halle Anderson
- Fiona Shaw as Narrator
- Norbert Leo Butz as Vice Principal Phil Pelaski
- Jessica Hecht as Principal Trudie Slocum
- Charlie Saxton as Will
- Nathan Lane as Carl Kapinas
- Nikki Blonsky as Sheila Nussbaum
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
41%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Apropos of its title, The English Teacher feels like a movie written as a homework assignment.
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald
Rotten
The report card for low-key high school comedy The English Teacher would read something like this: Weak effort; this student is too easily distracted, fails to follow through and turns in unfinished work.
Linda Barnard, Toronto Star
Fresh
Pleasant is the perfect word with which to describe The English Teacher, an ingratiating little comedy that aims to please and succeeds at its modest goal.
Leah Rozen, TheWrap
Rotten
The movie doesn't do enough with its cast or its idea; it's an underachiever that simply doesn't try hard enough.
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger
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