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The Kindergarten Teacher (2018)
Director:
Sara Colangelo
Writers:
Sara Colangelo, Nadav Lapid
Starring:
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gael García Bernal, Ato Blankson-Wood, Libya Pugh
Writer-director Sarah Colangelo's sophomore feature film is based on the 2014 Israeli film of the same name.
Maggie Gyllenhaal plays a forty-year old married kindergarten teacher living in Staten Island who is terminally bored with her banal middle-class existence. When she becomes convinced that her five-year-old student is a budding poetic genius, she decides to nurture his talents in a reckless and questionable manner.
Plot summary from IMDb: A kindergarten teacher in New York becomes obsessed with one of her students whom she believes is a child prodigy.
Awards: 1 win & 1 nomination.
Runtime: 96 min
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