The English Teacher (5.6)

Movie · 2013 · 1 h 33 min · Comedy, Drama, Romance

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.

Directed by: Craig Zisk

Starring Julianne Moore, Michael Angarano, Greg Kinnear, Lily Collins, Fiona Shaw, Norbert Leo Butz, Jessica Hecht, Charlie Saxton, Nathan Lane, Nikki Blonsky

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