USA,
2018, 96 min
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)
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