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An educator and the school where he works are both on the verge of collapse in this hard-hitting drama from director Tony Kaye. Henry Barthes (Adrien Brody) is a gifted teacher whose psyche has been taking a beating -- he still bears emotional scars from his mother's drunken tirades while he was a child, and he's been forced to look after his grandfather (Louis Zorich) as he dies a slow, painful death. Henry has become a substitute teacher rather than fully commit himself to his students, but his latest...more

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don't go, run. by Esther-the-queen-sort-of
This is the best movie I have seen this year - and a very, very, very powerful "talkie" (in Tony Kaye's idiom): devastating and healing. Grounding. Generous....

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fantastic performances but the theme of the film was so dark

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