Directed by:
Sara ColangeloScreenplay:
Sara ColangeloCinematography:
Pepe Avila del PinoComposer:
Asher GoldschmidtCast:
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Parker Sevak, Gael García Bernal, Michael Chernus, Rosa Salazar, Anna Baryshnikov, Ajay Naidu, Daisy Tahan, Samrat Chakrabarti (more)VOD (1)
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Lisa Spinelli (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is dissatisfied with her life as a mother, wife and kindergarten teacher on Staten Island. She attends a poetry class, led by Simon (Gael Garcia Bernal), as a means of artistically expressing herself, but her talents are quickly dismissed by her peers and mentor. However, when she overhears one of her pupils, Jimmy (Parker Sevak), reciting his own poem she steals it for herself and uses it to wow her classmates. Convinced that Jimmy is a child genius, Lisa becomes determined to help him harness his unique gift, however her behaviour begins to cross the normal boundary between student and teacher. (Thunderbird Releasing)
(more)Cast
Maggie Gyllenhaal
USA
Best movies:
The Dark Knight (2008)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
Parker Sevak
Best movies:
The Kindergarten Teacher (2018)
Gael García Bernal
Mexico
Best movies:
Coco (2017)
Amores Perros (2000)
Babel (2006)
Michael Chernus
USA
Best movies:
Captain Phillips (2013)
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
The Messenger (2009)
Rosa Salazar
USA
Best movies:
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021)
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
Bird Box (2018)
Anna Baryshnikov
USA
Best movies:
Manchester by the Sea (2016)
Love Lies Bleeding (2024)
Wiener-Dog (2016)
Ajay Naidu
USA
Best movies:
Retour à Brooklyn (2000)
K-Pax (2001)
The Wrestler (2008)
Daisy Tahan
Best movies:
The Nice Guys (2016)
Synecdoche, New York (2008)
Love and Other Impossible Pursuits (2009)
Samrat Chakrabarti
UK
Best movies:
New York (2009)
She Hate Me (2004)
Nancy (2018)
Aamira Martinez
USA
Best movies:
When They See Us (2019) (series)
Tigertail (2020)
The Kindergarten Teacher (2018)
Nikhil Melnechuk
Best movies:
The Kindergarten Teacher (2018)
Haley Murphy
Best movies:
Adam (2019)
The Half of It (2020)
My Best Day (2012)
Allen McCullough
Best movies:
Vinyl (2016) (series)
Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
Shirley (2020)
Kea Trevett
Best movies:
The Kindergarten Teacher (2018)
Clark Carmichael
Best movies:
The Irishman (2019)
Hamlet (2000) (TV movie)
Ocean's 8 (2018)
Ato Blankson-Wood
USA
Best movies:
When They See Us (2019) (series)
BlacKkKlansman (2018)
It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010)