The English Teacher (2013)

5.5/10 • 92 min • Comedy Drama Romance

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.

Cast

Julianne Moore

Michael Angarano

Greg Kinnear

Dr. Tom Sherwood

Lily Collins

Fiona Shaw

Norbert Leo Butz

Vice Principal Phil Pelaski

Jessica Hecht

Principal Trudie Slocum

Charlie Saxton

Nathan Lane

Nikki Blonsky

Sheila Nussbaum

Erin Wilhelmi

Remy Auberjonois

Beefy Businessman

Peter Y. Kim

Mike the Orderly

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