Notes on a Scandal (25-Dec-2006)
Director: Richard Eyre Writer: Patrick Marber (screenplay) From novel by: Zoe Heller Keywords: Drama A curmudgeonly teacher's unlikely friendship with a young art teacher turns dreadful when she learns of the new arrival's affair with one of her students.
ABSTRACT Barbara Covett is a nihilistic, bitter old teacher at a high school in working-class London, nearing retirement and reviled by peers and pupils alike. New arrival Sheba Hart, a cheery, younger art teacher, serves to ignite a long-dormant spark in Barbara's depressing existence as the pair become friends; that friendship turns sour when Barbara discovers Sheba's affair with one of her fifteen-year old students, however, setting the elder on a path towards exacting "revenge" against her dishonest acquaintance. Nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Score.
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