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The English Teacher

2013 · 92 min

A gentle, quirky small-town comedy-drama about a bookish teacher's romantic awakening, warm and mildly bittersweet.

Tagline: Refuse to live life by the book.
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.
How it feels: Warm, whimsical, romantic and melancholic. Measured and easy to follow.
About: Identity, love, ambition, coming-of-age
Content: Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
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Tone: warmstrength 2 of 3
whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
romanticstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: identity
love
ambition
coming-of-age
redemption
Places: small town
school
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild