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Plot Summary
Academy Award® winners Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett give wickedly entertaining, Oscar-nominated performances, in this sexy, stylish thriller. Judi Dench mesmerizes as Barbara Covett, a teacher who rules over her classroom with an iron fist, yet leads a desperate, solitary life outside it. That is, until she meets radiant new art teacher Sheba Hart (Blanchett). Although at first overjoyed with her newfound kindred spirit, when Barbara discovers that Sheba is having an affair with a teenage student, her jealously and rage spiral out of control.
Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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87%- Reviews Counted: 170
- Fresh: 148
- Rotten: 22
- Average Rating: 7.5/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: In England, it seems, actresses have nothing to fear from age. They can simply wait for writers to create fresh work for them.
Fresh: Patrick Marber's adaptation of the Zoe Heller novel improves upon the promise of the [Dench/Blanchett] pairing with a story that wastes no time on preliminaries as it descends -- gleefully -- into pitch-black comedy.
Fresh: Notes on a Scandal may not always be deeply illuminating, but [director Richard] Eyre adds enough pathos and emotional realism to keep the movie from curdling into a snide joke.
Fresh: This compact, fierce and frightening domestic thriller is the most violent film in many a day. The rage is in the angry words, the deepest thoughts of its 'heroine,' and the fear about what might come from those words is palpable.
Customer Reviews
Everything complements eachother in this wonderful piece of art!
This movie really deserves oscars! both dench and blanchett are superb in roles that are really dense and hard to play, they shine as actors. the storyline of course is a tabu even though it's reality. Marital problems, living with a disabled child, feeling old but still wanting youth, loneliness and the tender subject of youth attracted to power (in the role of the teacher) and also the feeling of being wanted is all connected to a webbing of immense beauty and depth, truth and shame. A movie anyone could have something in commong with! Highly recommended!
well done, dench! you too, cate
well done, dench! you too, cate
Incredible!
This film is fantastic! Its one of my favorites!
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- $14.99
- Genre: Drama
- Released: 2007
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