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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Stuck in an unsatisfying marriage and with teenage children who ignore her, 40-year-old Lisa Spinelli (Maggie Gyllenhaal) treads water by teaching kindergarten with quiet dispassion. One day everything changes when Lisa discovers that Jimmy, a five-year-old boy in her class, may be a gifted poet and sees him as a ticket out of her mundane life. When Lisa presents some of Jimmy’s work at her poetry class as her own work, and receives praise from her teacher (Gael García Bernal), her desire to mentor the child genius grows. As fascination turns into obsession, Lisa spirals downward on a dangerous and desperate path to channel her unfulfilled creative dreams into the protégée. (Madman Entertainment)
(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:
Requiem for a Dream (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)