Director: Richard Eyre

Writer: Patrick Marber (screenplay)

From novel by: Zoe Heller

Keywords: Drama

A curmudgeonly teacher's unlikely friendship with a young art teacher turns dreadful when she learns of the new arrival's affair with one of her students.

ABSTRACT
Barbara Covett is a nihilistic, bitter old teacher at a high school in working-class London, nearing retirement and reviled by peers and pupils alike. New arrival Sheba Hart, a cheery, younger art teacher, serves to ignite a long-dormant spark in Barbara's depressing existence as the pair become friends; that friendship turns sour when Barbara discovers Sheba's affair with one of her fifteen-year old students, however, setting the elder on a path towards exacting "revenge" against her dishonest acquaintance. Nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Score.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Cate Blanchett	Actor	14-May-1969		Galadriel in LOTR
Judi Dench	Actor	9-Dec-1934		Mrs. Brown
Anne-Marie Duff	Actor	8-Oct-1970		The Virgin Queen
Michael Maloney	Actor	19-Jun-1957		Notes on a Scandal
Bill Nighy	Actor	12-Dec-1949		Love Actually
Juno Temple	Actor	21-Jul-1989		St. Trinian's

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