Story Line
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.
“Refuse to live life by the book.”
Top 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
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Rating
5.5/ 10
Release Date
2013-05-16
Runtime
1h 32m
Genres
ComedyDramaRomance
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•7/17/2015> 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 midd...