The English Teacher

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Dave V I couldn't get through this. It was nothing but shallow with no redeeming qualities. I should have known when they start off with 2 dudes making out. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 09/04/24 Full Review StephenPaul C LOL, the funniest 01 hour: and 31 minutes ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rated R for Sexual Content, and Language!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Starring Nathan Lane as Carl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/15/23 Full Review John H Twenty years in HS classrooms. Often English (I'm a sub). Tried-to-be playwright and short story writer. Still at it. This is not an Oscar winner. Never intended to be. Light, borderline superficial. Cute entanglements. Nicely directed, edited, etc. This is entertainment. And it works. Impossible to dislike anyone in it. Agreeable flow. Best . . . it keeps you smiling. Why else do you watch a comedy? The story line was designed to be light-weight from the beginning. Why else the English-speaking background...telling you what you already know? It's there to keep the smile on your face, dummy. Remember this as you watch it. The thing worked. Give it the credit it was designed to win. Watch the movie. If not, you're a rascal. You'll see. Listen carefully at forty minutes in. I liked it. For me, 3½. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/13/22 Full Review ronald h "Academic politics are so vicious precisely because the stakes are so small."' That quote, variously worded, has been attributed to Lawrence J. Peter and others. This film is not really about academic competition, but it is about conflict in academia, and the stakes are indeed small: The whole controversy revolves around a high school play written by a former student. An English teacher (Julianne Moore) gets entangled in the administrative constraints of her school. Without spoiling anything, suffice it so say that she makes an egregious mistake. It's a lightweight comedy, abundant with literary references to please the academics in the audience. But it's pretty funny in spots, especially a laugh-out-loud hospital room scene with Moore and Greg Kinnear. I've never thought highly of Moore, maybe because she's been in so many dumb movies, but here, she shows admirable comedic chops. Kinnear also demonstrates that he can really act when given a role he can actually sink his teeth into. Trivial but amusing, hilarious in places, The English Teacher is worth a watch. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member A great cast but not at all what I was expecting, in the worst possible way. Even Greg Kinnear, whom I love, couldn't save this one. I also really like Nathan Lane but clearly the role wasn't for him. Julianne Moore's character was just naive and stupid, nearly forcing a former student to allow the school to perform his play. It's one thing to be encouraging but quite another to be borderline obsessive. And of course her relationship with this student was a huge turn off. I watched about a half hour before I decided that I'd had enough. The previews failed to show just how bad this movie really is. No wonder I'd never heard of it. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member Not a terrible movie, but innecessary. Lends nothing new to the frumpy old Eng teacher who goes bad, but we all learn something in the end. A real snooze fest Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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