SummaryA high school teacher in Austin, Texas has an affair with one of her students. Her life begins to unravel as the relationship comes to an end.
Directed By:Hannah Fidell
Written By:Hannah Fidell
A Teacher
Metascore
Mixed or Average
47
User score
Mixed or Average
5.7
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
33% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
60% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
7% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Aug 2, 2013
80
What makes the film work is that this potentially lurid material is treated at all times with sensitivity and probing psychological seriousness.
Sep 4, 2013
75
By continually deferring dramatic tension, the filmmaker puts more weight on the movie’s closing scenes — which are abrupt but true to life — than they can handle.
Aug 2, 2013
60
Burdge is left to do much of the heavy lifting in terms of inviting the audience into her protagonist’s shaky state, and her performance boasts a remarkable emotional precision throughout — if ever there’s a reason to seek this one out, it would be for her.
Sep 4, 2013
50
A Teacher feels a bit like watching some fool cross a busy freeway on foot over and over again for an hour and change. There’s little to do but await the inevitable splat.
Sep 5, 2013
40
Writer-director Hannah Fidell’s somber drama of an illicit romance earns credit for being a serious discussion of a tabloid-rich topic, but the movie runs out of places to go.
Sep 3, 2013
40
Less a master class in inappropriate high-school relationships than the CliffsNotes version, A Teacher isn’t going to tell you anything Nabokov or "Election" didn’t.
User score
Mixed or Average
42% Positive
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
33% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
25% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
Jan 31, 2015
7
This portrayal of a female teacher's affair with a younger male student yields many psychological insights as she realizes what she is doing is wrong but still can't let go of her obsessive love. It's not a five star movie, but still better than most of the crap out there.
Sep 7, 2013
2
The Movies acting wasn't the **** they would act better than I would give it a good **** reason why I'm giving this a mixed review is because its a well directed movie but the acting is not the best.5 stars
Production Company:
- Flaneur Films
Release Date:Sep 6, 2013
Duration:1 h 15 m
Awards
SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Dallas International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Oldenburg Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
