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Release Date 13 Jul 2012 TBA

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Genre: Drama

Academy Award winner Adrien Brody stars as Henry Barthes, an educator with a true talent to connect with his students. Yet Henry has chosen to bury his gift. By spending his days as a substitute teacher, he conveniently avoids any emotional connections by never staying anywhere long enough to form an attachment to either students or colleagues. When a new assignment places him at a public school where a frustrated, burned-out administration has created an apathetic student body, Henry soon becomes a role model to the disaffected youth. In finding an unlikely emotional connection to the students, teachers, and a runaway teen he takes in from the streets, Henry realizes that he's not alone in his life and death struggle to find beauty in a seemingly vicious and loveless world.

Cast:
Marcia Gay Harden | Lucy Liu | Adrien Brody | Bryan Cranston | Christina Hendricks

Writers:
Carl Lund

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Directors:
Tony Kaye

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    Marty hanratty

    The beauty of this movie comes within the subtext, whether you can directly relate with the characters or not, the movie takes the message and widens its range so everyone is able to understand the actual meaning of the film. Let's clear things out, this film is not about a school or the basis of education, this is about trying our best not to give a damn about others as most of us just go around doing everything in our power to be happy ourselves with a lousy job, a loveless marriage, a constant sense of abandonment or basically a crappy life (all of the above portrayed marvelously in the film).

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    mart

    Grappling with the dilapidation of America's school system is fair enough, but the movie is painfully undone by its pretentious poetry of despair.Teeters into self-parody, a self-important, humourless exposé of modern education that eventually becomes exhausting to watch.

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    filmbuff2011

    Tony Kaye, the fiery director of American History X, has been keeping quiet of late. However, he's back doing what he does best with Detachment - stoking things up, while delivering an indictment of the modern education system. Adrien Brody plays Henry, a substitute teacher who drifts from one school to the next, dealing with damaged teens from broken homes. While this may initially sound like any number of inspirational-teacher films, Kaye goes deeper into the heart of the problem. He gives the teachers as much character development as the teens, showing that they have problems of their own. Tellingly, in one scene hardly any parents turn up for the parent-teacher evening, with Henry commenting that this illustrates the nature of the whole problem. Yet, there is hope in the film. It doesn't always work - some plot threads are left unresolved and the performances can vary - but there's an honesty to its confrontational style that rings true. Worth a look if you want something more meaty than the usual Hollywoodised inspirational-teacher film.

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