Bad Teacher is a 2011 American comedy film directed by Jake Kasdan and written by the writing team of Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky. Starring Cameron Diaz, Justin Timberlake, Lucy Punch, John Michael Higgins and Jason Segel, the film tells the story of a middle school teacher who hates her job, her students, and her co-workers but returns to teaching after her wealthy fianc breaks up with her.
Elizabeth Halsey is a lazy, immoral, manipulative, gold-digging teacher at John Adams Middle School in Chicago who curses at her students, drinks heavily, smokes marijuana and lets her students watch movies so she can sleep through class. She plans to quit teaching and marry her wealthy fianc, but he dumps her when his mother shows him that Elizabeth is only after his money, so she resumes her job.
Elizabeth tries to win over wealthy substitute teacher Scott Delacorte. Her dedicated and enthusiastic colleague Amy Squirrel also pursues him while Elizabeth rejects advances from the school's gym teacher, Russell Gettis.
Elizabeth plans to get breast implants and becomes more motivated to do so upon learning Scott's ex-girlfriend had large breasts. However, she cannot afford the $9,300 procedure. Elizabeth attempts to raise money for the surgery through the 7th-grade car wash, wearing provocative clothing and manipulating parents to give her money for more school supplies and tutoring, but her efforts are not enough.
Discovering that the teacher of the class with the highest state test scores will receive a $5,700 bonus, Elizabeth decides to force the class to intensely study To Kill a Mockingbird for the test. However, since it is late in the school year, combined with her unorthodox teaching methods, the students score low on the practise quizzes, further frustrating her. Meanwhile, she befriends Russell, as Amy and Scott start dating.
Elizabeth plans to steal the state test answers by impersonating a journalist and seducing Carl Halabi, a state professor in charge of creating and distributing the exams. She convinces Carl to go into his office to have sex, but drugs him and steals the answer key. A month later Elizabeth wins the bonus, completing her needed funds, and books her breast enlargement.
When Elizabeth learns that Amy and Scott are chaperoning an upcoming field trip, she smears an apple with poison ivy and leaves it for Amy, who ends up with blisters covering her face and cannot go. On the trip, Elizabeth seduces Scott. They dry hump and Elizabeth secretly leaves Amy a message through Scott's phone, recording all the action.
However, Scott's ever-changing ideals disappoint Elizabeth. After her student Garrett is taunted by his classmates for confessing to an unrequited attraction to a superficial girl in the class named Chase, Elizabeth consoles him and helps make him popular, which prompts her to begin reflecting on her own superficial ways.
Back at the school, Amy switches Elizabeth's desk with her own to trick the janitor into unlocking Elizabeth's sealed drawer. The evidence Amy finds leads her to suspect Elizabeth cheated on the state exam. Amy informs the principal and gets Carl to testify against her. However, Elizabeth took embarrassing photos of Carl while he was drugged and uses them to blackmail him to say she is innocent.
Having been informed that her desk was switched, Elizabeth states that teachers in the school use drugs. When the police bring a sniffer dog to search the school, they find Elizabeth's mini liquor bottles, marijuana and OxyContin pills in Amy's classroom, in Elizabeth's desk, leading to Amy getting arrested and transferred to another school by the superintendent. Scott asks Elizabeth to start over, but she rejects him in favor of Russell, having learned they have a lot in common.
When the new school year starts, Elizabeth has reformed. She is kinder to her co-workers, and has started a relationship with Russell, and did not get her breasts enlarged because she feels that it is unnecessary. Elizabeth also has a new position as the new guidance counselor.
Bad Teacher was directed by Jake Kasdan based on a screenplay by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky. Columbia Pictures purchased Eisenberg and Stupnitsky's spec script in August 2008.[3] In May 2009, Kasdan was hired to direct Bad Teacher.[4] The following December, Cameron Diaz was cast in the film's lead role.[5] Justin Timberlake was cast opposite Diaz in March 2010, and filming began later in the month.[6]
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 45% of 193 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.3/10. The website's consensus reads: "In spite of a promising concept and a charmingly brazen performance from Cameron Diaz, Bad Teacher is never as funny as it should be."[12] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 47 out of 100, based on 38 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.[13] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.[1] Roger Ebert gave the film 2 stars writing "there is no chemistry, or indeed even much mutual awareness between Diaz and Timberlake."[14]
On May 23, 2013, CBS announced a TV series based on the film, with CBS Studios and Sony Pictures Television as production partners. The show premiered on April 24, 2014, in the 9:30pm time slot.[22] Ari Graynor played the Cameron Diaz role,[23] while Sara Gilbert, Ryan Hansen, David Alan Grier, Kristin Davis and Sara Rodier also appeared. On May 10, 2014, CBS canceled Bad Teacher after airing only three episodes.[24]
The Teacher is a 2022 Indian Malayalam-language drama thriller film directed by Vivek who also wrote the story for the film. Produced by Nutmeg Productions and VTV Films, it stars Amala Paul in the titular role alongside Hakkim Shah, Chemban Vinod Jose and Manju Pillai. The film has music composed by Dawn Vincent.[2]
Devika wakes up from her sleep and appears confused. She checks for body injuries and also finds that her ear ring is missing. She is not able to remember what happened the day before. She is a school teacher in charge of athletics and her colleague assures her that she is just tired because the school was having sports meet for the last 4 days. Her husband Sujith is a male nurse and together they have been trying for a baby for a long time.
Devika finds out that she is pregnant. But she is still in the trauma because she was raped by some college students during the last school meet. She hides that information from her husband. She looked for CCTV footages of what happened but the cameras were not working during that time. She searches porn sites too for videos but did not find any. As the last step, she visits one of the students homes and cleverly keeps her phone on recording mode in his car. From the conversations he has with his friends, Devika understands that they still have video evidence with them.
Sujith gets to know that Devika is pregnant from the lab report. He visits her doctor and doctor asks him why are they doing abortion. Sujith confronts Devika and Devika admits that she was raped. Sujith gets angry that the fetus might be one of the rapists and he does not want to father it. Devika wants to file a police complaint, but Sujith discourages saying the family name will be ruined.
Sujith's mother Kalyani, a veteran comrade, gives her encouragement to take revenge on the students. Devika goes in search of them and finds the leader of the gang working in a food delivery service in Kochi. Kalyani recommends a police informant to her and that he will help her. Devika meets the student and pretends that she is sexually interested in him. He invites Devika to a Hotel in a remote place. There she finds all the students in the room who although deletes the video and destroys the memory card, insults and abuses her and says they don't want to see her again. Devika then locks the door and reveals that she is trained in martial arts and fights all the students with the help of her friend. They attach mock bombs to the kids and scare them to death but leaves them alive. Finally, she reveals to Sujith that she does not need him in his life but she will keep the baby.
The music of the film is composed by Dawn Vincent. The first single titled "Kayalum Kandalum" was released in YouTube on 25 November 2022 while the second single, titled "Oruval", was released on 1 December 2022. The third single "Mazhaidara Vaanundu" was released on 7 December 2022.[5][6][7]
Sajin Shrijith of The New Indian Express gave the film 3 out of 5 and wrote "When one considers the better-written and staged, albeit more violent, examples of films in the same genre in international cinema, one is bound to find the writing in The Teacher slightly lacking."[9] Anjana George of The Times of India gave the film 2.5 out of 5 and wrote "The Teacher is an old wine in a new bottle where we see an uber masculine vengeful woman who embraces brutality to find solace with the support of a man, which itself is sexist. The trauma of a rape is much more than the revenge and such films do nothing but normalise the physical, emotional distress one go through."[10]
Notes on a Scandal is a 2006 British psychological drama thriller directed by Richard Eyre and produced by Robert Fox and Scott Rudin. Adapted from the 2003 novel of the same name by Zo Heller, the screenplay was written by Patrick Marber. The film stars Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett and centres on a lonely veteran teacher who uncovers a fellow teacher's illicit affair with an underage student.
Notes on a Scandal received positive reviews from critics, with Dench and Blanchett's performances receiving widespread critical acclaim. The film also emerged as a major commercial success at the box-office, grossing $50.6 million worldwide.
Notes on a Scandal earned Dench and Blanchett nominations for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress respectively at various ceremonies including the Academy Awards, the BAFTA Awards, the Critics' Choice Awards, the Golden Globe Awards and the Screen Actors Guild Awards.
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