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THE ENGLISH TEACHER

By Craig ZISK

CINEVERSE (LA) - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline

Comedy - Completed 2012

- Year of production
- 2012
- Genres
- Comedy
- Countries
- USA
- Director(s)
- Craig ZISK
- Writer(s)
- Dan CHARITON, Stacy CHARITON
- Cast
- Julianne MOORE, Lily COLLINS, Greg KINNEAR, Nathan LANE, Michael ANGARANO
- ISAN
- 0000-0003-ABA2-0000-H-0000-0000-N
- Producer(s)
- Aaron GILBERT (Media House Capital), Matthew CHAUSSE, Naomi DESPRES
- Synopsis
- As a forty-year-old unmarried high school English teacher in the small town of Kingston, Pennsylvania, Linda Sinclair shares a small apartment with two Siamese cats. No relationships. No children. Though her day-to-day existence may seem dull, Linda is wildly passionate about her job: teaching the great works of literature to impressionable young minds. But Linda’s simple life is upended when former star pupil Jason Sherwood returns to Kingston a miserable failure after trying to make it as a playwright in New York. Jason is on the verge of abandoning art, pressured by his overbearing, uptight, & conservative father, Dr. Tom Sherwood, to face reality and go to law school.
  Linda can’t stand the thought of Jason giving up on his dreams. She decides to mount his play – a dark, angst-ridden, ambitious work – as a Kingston High production. Faced with awful teenage acting, soaring costs, and pressure from a prudish school principal to tone down the play’s edgier elements, it’ll be a miracle if the show goes on.
  Drama is no longer confined to the safe pages of Linda’s books. With the play, her reputation, and her teaching career on the line, Linda finds an unlikely ally in the man she hates most: Tom Sherwood.