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Release Date:
5 January 2007 (Canada)
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Tagline:
One Woman's Mistake Is Another's Opportunity... more
Plot:
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. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for 4 Oscars.
Another 10 wins
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35 nominations
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(28 articles)
Bill Nighy: 'I am not suddenly the greatest actor in the world'
(From The Guardian - Film News. 19 November 2009, 3:54 AM, PST)
10 Most Underrated Young Actresses
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(From The Guardian - Film News. 19 November 2009, 3:54 AM, PST)
10 Most Underrated Young Actresses
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Jarring Notes Superbly Performed
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Judi Dench | ... | Barbara Covett |
 | Cate Blanchett | ... | Sheba Hart |
 | Tom Georgeson | ... | Ted Mawson |
| Michael Maloney | ... | Sandy Pabblem |
| Joanna Scanlan | ... | Sue Hodge |
| Shaun Parkes | ... | Bill Rumer |
| Emma Kennedy | ... | Linda |
| Syreeta Kumar | ... | Gita |
| Andrew Simpson | ... | Steven Connolly |
| Philip Davis | ... | Brian Bangs (as Phil Davis) |
| Wendy Nottingham | ... | Elaine Clifford |
| Tameka Empson | ... | Antonia Robinson |
| Leon Skinner | ... | Davis |
 | Bill Nighy | ... | Richard Hart |
 | Juno Temple | ... | Polly Hart |
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Rated R for language and some aberrant sexual content.
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92 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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USA:R |
Singapore:M18 |
UK:15 |
Ireland:16 |
Australia:MA |
Netherlands:12 |
Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) |
Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) |
Brazil:14 |
Finland:K-15 |
Argentina:16 |
Canada:14A (Ontario) |
Germany:12 |
Portugal:M/16 (Qualidade) |
South Korea:18 |
Malaysia:18PL (DVD) |
Japan:R-15 |
New Zealand:M
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Cate Blanchett and Bill Nighy have both appeared in productions of The Lord of the Rings. Blanchett played Galadriel in the Peter Jackson films, while Nighy played Sam Gamgee in the BBC Radio broadcast. Both productions also featured Ian Holm.
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Continuity: When Sheba goes up to her daughter's bedroom, she is listening to music on headphones, the camera briefly cuts to Sheba, then back to the daughter, and the headphones have vanished; there was not enough time in between the shots for her to have removed them.
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Barbara Covett: [voiceover of Barbara writing in her diary] People trust me with their secrets. But who do I trust with mine? You, only you.
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Barbara Covett: [voiceover of Barbara writing in her diary] People trust me with their secrets. But who do I trust with mine? You, only you.
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Featured in The 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2007) (TV)
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Funky Kingston
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Judi Dench and Cate Blanchet both have played the fierce Queen Elizabeth I in their careers and here they fight for the crown in a royal match that is as entertaining as it is jarring. Two civilized women breaking into very uncivilized patterns of behavior. A highbrow story with a tabloid sensibility performed with truth and gusto. Bette Davis would have killed for Judi Dench's part at the time of Baby Jane and although there is nothing grotesque in the way Dame Judy presents us her monster, the monster herself is grotesque. She explains, in a witty and consistent voice over, what's in her mind. The center of her intentions become so appallingly clear to us that Cate Blanchet's slowness to catch up becomes exasperating. Maybe her suffocating domestic situation throws her into the arms of her absurdity. She seems a woman searching for validation without any real vocation. A teacher who doesn't believe she can teach, a mediocre wife a light weight mother. Judi Dench is relentlessly solid in her madness made of longing and fears. I left the theater with a desperate need for a double scotch on the rocks, just to take a strange taste off my mouth.