The English Teacher
Genres: Comedy / Drama
Year: 2013
Director: Craig Zisk
Cast: Julianne Moore / Michael Angarano / Greg Kinnear / Lily Collins / Fiona Shaw / Norbert Leo Butz / Jessica Hecht /Charlie Saxton / Nathan Lane / Nikki Blonsky / Sophie Curtis /
Alan Aisenberg / Sasha Almedia-Beers / Remy Auberjonois
Linda Sinclair is a forty-year-old unmarried high school English teacher in the small town of Kingston, Pennsylvania. She shares a small apartment with two Siamese cats and her rich collection of great literature. She maintains no close personal relationships aside from those she has with her favorite authors and stories. Her life is far less complicated than the dramas she devours on the page, and she likes it that way. But Linda's simple life turns an unexpected page when former star pupil Jason Sherwood returns to Kingston after trying to make it as a playwright in New York. Now in his 20s, Jason is on the verge of abandoning art, pressured by his overbearing father, Dr. Tom Sherwood , to face reality and go to law school. Linda can't stand the thought of Jason giving up on his dreams so she decides to mount his play - a dark, angst-ridden, ambitious work - as a Kingston High School production, with flamboyant drama teacher Carl ...
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