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The Kindergarten Teacher (2018)

Drama

Director: Sara Colangelo
Writers: Sara Colangelo, Nadav Lapid
Starring: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gael GarcĂ­a 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
R

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