The part of John Keating was once intended for Dustin Hoffman. The film was also going to be Hoffman's directorial debut before Hoffman withdrew from the film.
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Mona Lisa Smile 2003
The story of Katherine Ann Watson a feminist teacher who studied at UCLA graduate school and in 1953 left her boyfriend behind in Los Angeles California to teach at Wellesley College a conservative womens private liberal arts college in ...
Mona Lisa Smile features sentimental, romantic, inspirational, sweet and touching style.
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The Emperors Club 2002
William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new student Sedgewick Bell walks into his classroom. What begins as a fierce battle of wills gives way to ...
The Emperors Club features touching, realistic, emotional, serious and sincere style.
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Scent of a Woman 1992
Charlie Simms is a student at a private preparatory school who comes from a poor family. To earn the money for his flight home to Gresham Oregon for Christmas Charlie takes a job over Thanksgiving looking after retired U.S. Army officer Lieutenant ...
Scent of a Woman features sentimental, realistic, dramatic, touching and inspirational style.
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Finding Forrester 2000
Gus van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents while living on the streets of the Bronx. He accidentally runs into an old writer named Forrester who discovers his passion for writing. With help ...
Finding Forrester features uplifting, touching, sentimental, sincere and feel good style.
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The History Boys 2006
The story of an unruly class of bright funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their ...
The History Boys features witty, semi serious, stylized, melancholic and intellectual style.
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The Man Without a Face 1993
The story of a relationship between a teacher and his troubled pupil. Justin McLeod is a former teacher who lives as a recluse on the edge of town. His face is disfigured from an automobile accident and fire ten years before in which a boy was ...
The Man Without a Face features touching, sincere, inspirational, sentimental and realistic style.
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Front of the Class 2008
quotFront of the Classquot is based on the true story of Brad Cohen -- played in the movie by Jimmy Wolk -- who quotafter being challenged by Tourettes syndrome from a very young age defies all odds to become a gifted teacher
Front of the Class features touching, inspirational, realistic, thought provoking and uplifting style.
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With Honors 1994
Convinced hell graduate with honors because of his thesis paper a stuffy Harvard student finds his paper being held hostage by a homeless man who might be the guy to school the young man in life.
With Honors features touching, feel good, sentimental, semi serious and humorous style.
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Lean on Me 1989
When principal Joe Clark takes over decaying Eastside High School hes faced with students wearing gang colors and graffiti-covered walls. Determined to do anything he must to turn the school around he expels suspected drug dealers padlocks ...
Lean on Me features realistic, uplifting, emotional, atmospheric and rough style.
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Spud 2010
Its South Africa 1990. Two major events are about to happen The release of Nelson Mandela and more importantly its Spud Miltons first year at an elite boys only private boarding school. John Milton is a boy from an ordinary ...
Spud features sentimental, sincere, realistic, feel good and emotional style.
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Monsieur Ibrahim 2003
Monsieur Ibrahim is a story about a young Jewish boy in Paris who meets an old Muslim Turkish grocery store owner. The film touches the themes of friendship and love as the old man is a father figure to the boy as he teaches him of the Koran. The ...
Monsieur Ibrahim features touching, sentimental, feel good, uplifting and atmospheric style.
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Stand and Deliver 1988
Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hopers into some of the countrys top ...
Stand and Deliver features feel good, realistic, touching, sentimental and serious style.
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Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975
In the early 1900s Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentines Day the schools typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging ...
Picnic at Hanging Rock features stylized, meditative, melancholic, scenic and lyrical style.
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Good Will Hunting 1997
Will Hunting has a genius-level IQ but chooses to work as a janitor at MIT. When he solves a difficult graduate-level math problem his talents are discovered by Professor Gerald Lambeau who decides to help the misguided youth reach his potential. ...
Good Will Hunting features philosophical, uplifting, psychological, sentimental and emotional style.
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Lean on Me 1989
When principal Joe Clark takes over decaying Eastside High School hes faced with students wearing gang colors and graffiti-covered walls. Determined to do anything he must to turn the school around he expels suspected drug dealers padlocks ...
Lean on Me features realistic, uplifting, atmospheric, emotional and sincere style.
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The Chorus 2004
Set in 1940s France a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.
The Chorus features touching, uplifting, sentimental, feel good and serious style.
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Like Stars on Earth 2007
Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate. Colours fish dogs and kites dont seem important to the adults who are much more interested in things like homework marks and ...
Like Stars on Earth features touching, motivational, captivating, uplifting and serious style.
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Detachment 2011
A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school imparting modes of knowledge but never staying long ...
Detachment features psychological, thought provoking, serious, bleak and depressing style.
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The Ron Clark Story 2006
Matthew Perry is real-life inspiration Ron Clark a passionate and innovative teacher who leaves his small hometown to teach in one of Harlems toughest schools. But to break through to this students Clark must use unconventional methods ...
The Ron Clark Story features uplifting, realistic, serious and emotional
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