The English Teacher (2013)
"Refuse to live life by the book."
ThumbScore
👍 63%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 41%
(RT: 41%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Norbert Leo Butz as Vice Principal Phil Pelaski
Jessica Hecht as Principal Trudie Slocum
Charlie Saxton as Will
Is The English Teacher good?
It's divisive. 63% audience score, estimated from 382 TMDB ratings. Critics scored it lower at 41%, but audiences disagreed.
Overview
Small-town Pennsylvania schoolteacher Linda Sinclair balances her staid home life with an incredible passion for her subject. Then a former star pupil reenters her life after failing as a playwright in New York City. Seeing in his script the inspiration that she has always longed to instill in her students, this dyed-in-the-wool romantic enlists the help of long-suffering drama teacher Carl to mount the work as the high school’s next and riskiest production. Wikipedia ↗
