Teaching Mrs. Tingle

PG-13

8/11/19991h 36m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ Before school lets out, Mrs. Tingle's class is going to need a substitute teacher. ~

Overview:

A bright high-school senior has her impending status as valedictorian jeopardized when her bitter history teacher, Mrs. Tingle, gives her a poor grade on a project. When an attempt to get ahead in Mrs. Tingle's class goes awry, mayhem ensues and friendships, loyalties and trust are tested by the teacher's intricate mind-games.

Director:

Kevin Williamson

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$13,000,000.00

Revenue:

$8,946,237.00

Key words:

pornography
scholarship
parent child relationship
class
bed
graduation
final exam
exam
bastille
teen movie
tears
gym
teenage sexuality
knocked out
valedictorian
history class
history teacher
letter opener
school bus

Cast

Helen Mirren

~ as ~

Mrs. Tingle

Katie Holmes

~ as ~

Leigh Ann Watson

Barry Watson

~ as ~

Luke Churner

Marisa Coughlan

~ as ~

Jo Lynn Jordan

Michael McKean

~ as ~

Principal Potter

Jeffrey Tambor

~ as ~

Coach Wenchell

Liz Stauber

~ as ~

Trudie Tucker

Molly Ringwald

~ as ~

Miss Banks

Vivica A. Fox

~ as ~

Miss Gold

John Patrick White

~ as ~

Brian Berry

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Reviews (1)

John Chard
Written 10 year(s) ago
2
Caught between its aims?

Three students get more than they bargained for when a theft of a test results paper leads to a deadly battle of wills with their kidnapped teacher, Mrs. Tingle.

It seems to me that director and writer, Kevin Wiliamson, got confused as to which direction the film should go in. At times it's jaunty when the scene appears to call for menace, and at others just plain boring if the scene was meant to be actually funny (in that sarcastic, almost satirical way). The film could have worked at either being a comedy or a thriller, but the fusion of the two just doesn't work, and this failing has to fall at Williamson's door, it's as if Scream was all a fluke after all? The cast struggle with the meanderingly dull screenplay, only the stoic (and sexy) Helen Mirren salvaging any sort of dignity by realising early on that the core of the film calls for deft nastiness instead of outright villainy.

Poor and practically unwatchable these days. 2/10