A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.
Nominated for 4 Oscars. 15 wins & 74 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
While Glenn Close played her Fatal Attraction character's 'I will not be ignored' psycho-obsession out front and out loud, Dench does it as subtext, making it all the more insidious, frightening ... and fascinating.
– Eleanor Ringel Gillespie,
Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
11 Jan 2007
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.
– Roger Moore,
Orlando Sentinel,
12 Jan 2007
fresh:
Bill Nighy is stunning in the small but pivotal role of Sheba's devastated husband, and Dench locates the desperate pathos in Barbara's malevolence.
– Jessica Winter,
Time Out,
25 Jan 2007
rotten:
Richard Eyre's direction merely plays up the melodramatic aspects of Zoe Heller's novel, screenwriter Patrick Marber's acidic dialogue occasionally slips into the overwritten, and the rest of the cast gamely chews table scraps.
– Melissa Anderson,
Time Out New York,
3 Feb 2007
fresh:
Blanchett has also recently appeared in The Good German and Babel, but this represents far and away her best work.