The English Teacher

“Refuse to live life by the book.”

5.5(370)20131h 32m

ComedyDramaRomance

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

Craig Zisk

Revenue

$0.1M

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Cast

Julianne Moore

Linda Sinclair

Michael Angarano

Jason Sherwood

Greg Kinnear

Dr. Tom Sherwood

Lily Collins

Halle Anderson

Fiona Shaw

Narrator

Norbert Leo Butz

Vice Principal Phil Pelaski

Jessica Hecht

Principal Trudie Slocum

Charlie Saxton

Will

Nathan Lane

Carl Kapinas

Nikki Blonsky

Sheila Nussbaum

Erin Wilhelmi

Joni Gerber

Remy Auberjonois

Beefy Businessman

Reviews

1 review

Rangan

10y ago

7.0

> 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 b...