

The English Teacher(2013)
"Refuse to live life by the book."
Overview
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.
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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

Jessica Hecht
Principal Trudie Slocum

Charlie Saxton
Will

Nathan Lane
Carl Kapinas

Nikki Blonsky
Sheila Nussbaum

Erin Wilhelmi
Joni Gerber

Remy Auberjonois
Beefy Businessman

Peter Y. Kim
Mike the Orderly
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