Maggie Smith's tour-de-force performance as a school-teacher slipping into spinsterhood is one of several notable achievements in this sentimental and macabre personal tragedy.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
In the surprising world of Jean Brodie, there were two men and four girls.
1969 · 1h 56m · M/PG
Drama
Directed by
Ronald Neame
Overview
A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12-year-old charges with her over-romanticized worldview.
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Maggie Smith is handed a part in the eccentric, trite, purposeful and finally pathetic Jean Brodie which allows her to play to all her considerable strengths.
Maggie Smith in one of those technically stunning, emotionally distant performances that the British are so damn good at.
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