The kindergarten teacher
Type
Label
The kindergarten teacher
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
Rating: M
Main title
The kindergarten teacher
Runtime
97
Summary
Stuck in an unsatisfying marriage and with teenage children who ignore her, 40-year-old Lisa Spinelli (Maggie Gyllenhaal) treads water by teaching kindergarten with quiet dispassion. One day everything changes when Lisa discovers that Jimmy, a five-year-old boy in her class, may be a gifted poet and sees him as a ticket out of her mundane life. When Lisa presents some of Jimmy's work at her poetry class as her own work, and receives praise from her teacher (Gael Garcia Bernal), her desire to mentor the child genius grows. As fascination turns into obsession, Lisa spirals downward on a dangerous and desperate path to channel her unfulfilled creative dreams into the protegee
Target audience
adult
Technique
live action
Contributor
Subject
Content
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Outgoing Resources
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