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Genres:
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Drama /
Music
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Director:
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Richard Eyre
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Actors:
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Joanna Scanlan,
Juno Temple,
Tom Georgeson,
Tameka Empson,
Andrew Simpson,
Emma Kennedy,
Syreeta Kumar,
Leon Skinner,
Judi Dench,
Cate Blanchett,
Michael Maloney,
Shaun Parkes,
Philip Davis,
Wendy Nottingham,
Bill Nighy
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Duration:
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92 min.
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Rating:
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(7.6/10)199
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Plot Summary:
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Barbara Covett is a veteran and cynical schoolteacher who is Scrooge-like to retirement. She is just tolerated on her less brilliant and acerbic colleagues who remember nothing with respect to her privileged life which consists on balance of taking suffering of Portia, her aging cat, and spending countless hours alone. The only means she has found to take the vehemence away her furious loneliness is literature in her journal. When Sheba Hart, a younger, attractive woman, joins the potential as an adroitness teacher, Barbara watches her from afar and has nothing but caustic things to say in her... diary far her clothing and her caution-uninhibited manner. Despite her disdain for this char, Barbara finds herself reaching discernible to her. Sheba responds alongside inviting her to dinner at her accommodate to meet Sheba's lecturer husband, who is twenty years her higher- ranking, and their two children, a sexy and rebellious 16-year-old daughter and a younger rogue with Downs Syndrome. In preference to of position herself to these people, Barbara immediately sees them as competition to be beaten in the battle pro Sheba's prominence. Later, when Barbara discovers her new friend in a classroom having making love with Steven, a 15-year-old from the school who has artistic ingenuity; she realizes that awareness of this secret gives her power over Sheba which she can use benefit of her own purposes. Barbara promises to not tell anyone but insists that the affair must end immediately. Sheba says she ordain but finds herself exhausted overdue to the varlet again and again. Sheba seems uneasy with Barbara's affection and is appalled when she discovers the older girlfriend might have a progenitive stake in her. The insignificant relationship between the two women reaches a disaster view when Barbara's cat is on one's deathbed and she asks Sheba to go with her to the authenticate. She chooses to study with her family to consider their son in a show instead. In her, Barbara sets in motion the defilement that will swing both their lives in ways they never imagined.Read more Less
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Notes on a Scandal
A lonely schoolteacher becomes obsessed with a young colleague after uncovering her dangerous secret. Creepy thriller adapted from Zoe Heller's Booker Prize-nominated novel, starring Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett
Meet Single White Spinster. Barbara Covett (Dench) isn't just a fearsome, hatchet-faced, acid-tongued, twin-set wearing teacher. Notes On A Scandal confirms our worst suspicions about the ladies who made so many secondary school students' lives a misery: these sourpusses weren't just misunderstood, lonely older women. They were aged, Sapphic versions of Glenn Close's bunny-boiler in Fatal Attraction, and the last people you'd want to become obsessed with you, or to learn your deepest, darkest secret.
Sheba Hart (Blanchett) ...
Notes on a Scandal
Carina ChocanoAnyone who has ever willingly submitted to the dominance of a toxic friend (girls, you know who you are) will shiver in recognition at Judi Dench's portrayal of a wolf-in-confidante's clothing in Notes on a Scandal. Based on the sly, addictively creepy novel by Zo?? Heller, it's the story of Bathsheba Hart (Cate Blanchett), a pretty, upper-class art teacher in her late 30s who starts a new job at a working-class public school and soon finds herself squarely in the sights of two besotted suitors ??? a 15-year-old student named Steven Connolly (Andrew Simpson) and a lonely, bitter history teacher named Barbara Covett (Dench).
Fans of the book should be warned that however secret and sublimated Barbara's longings are in the novel, they are front and center...
Notes on a Scandal
Meet Segregate Spotless Spinster. Barbara Covett (Dench) isn't valid a awe-inspiring, hatchet-faced, acid-tongued, matching-set wearing instructor. Notes On A Scandal confirms our worst suspicions about the ladies who made so innumerable auxiliary school students' lives a melancholy: these sourpusses weren't at most misunderstood, abandoned older women. They were aged, Sapphic versions of Glenn Close's bunny-boiler in Baneful Attraction, and the last people you'd deficiency to happen to obsessed with you, or to learn your deepest, darkest secret. Sheba Hart (Blanchett) suffers both fates. While Barbara provides the notes, in her malicious, distorted yet scrupulously kept engagement book entries, Sheba, a bohemian newcomer technique educator at the same school,...
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