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- 1984
- R
- MGM/UA Entertainment Company
- 1 h 47 m
- 1984
- R
- MGM/UA Entertainment Company
- 1 h 47 m
Summary A well meaning but burned-out high school teacher tries to maintain order against the backdrop of a pending lawsuit against his school district when it comes to light they gave a diploma to an illiterate student.
Directed By: Arthur Hiller
Written By: W.R. McKinney
- 1984
- R
- MGM/UA Entertainment Company
- 1 h 47 m
- 1984
- R
- MGM/UA Entertainment Company
- 1 h 47 m
Teachers
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Summary A well meaning but burned-out high school teacher tries to maintain order against the backdrop of a pending lawsuit against his school district when it comes to light they gave a diploma to an illiterate student.
Directed By: Arthur Hiller
Written By: W.R. McKinney
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Generally Unfavorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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88% Mixed
7 Reviews
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13% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
39
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
88% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
13% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Just about every scene written for JoBeth Williams, as an idealistic lawyer pushing the lawsuit and falling in love again with her old teach Nick Nolte, strikes a stridently false note, and in the final 20 minutes the movie totally self-destructs. Too bad. The cast is good and so are Teacher's intentions. A strong principal should have whipped this show into shape. [08 Oct 1984, p.87]
Teachers is more or less entertaining, but TV tactics are too diffuse on the big screen. America is still waiting for someone to produce a school satire with some teeth in it. [05 Oct 1984, p.C9]
An admirable attempt at a fresh version of an old genre, Teachers falls short, but not by much.
Socially committed realism and screwball comedy don't mix easily. That's the main reason that Teachers is a mess. [02 Nov 1984, p.25]
Teachers is Arthur Hiller's attempt to do for public education what he did for medicine in The Hospital, and the results are very uneven.
Someone had another Hospital in mind, and they even hired Arthur Hiller to direct it, but the attempt to merge black humor and strident social commentary seems even more uncertain this time.
Hiller's sledgehammer direction turns the problems common in education into an endless parade of clichés, feebly propped up by wacky humour, inarticulacy, ham and corn. Avoid.
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Production Company
United Artists,
Aaron Russo Productions
Release Date Oct 5, 1984
Duration 1 h 47 m
Rating R
Tagline They fall asleep in class. Throw ink on each other. Never come in Mondays. And they're just the teachers.
