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5.7A teacher reconnects with an old student who is now an attorney representing a family who is suing the school for graduating their son who still cannot read or write. Amid the daily chaos of teaching in an inner city school, Alex Jurel tries to decide if he will lie at his deposition to protect the school or tell the truth and risk throwing away his career.
Released: 1984-10-05107 minDir: Arthur HillerComedy, Drama
Cast
- Nick Nolte as Alex Jurel
- JoBeth Williams as Lisa Hammond
- Judd Hirsch as Roger Rubell
- Ralph Macchio as Eddie Pilikian
- Allen Garfield as Carl Rosenberg
- Lee Grant as Dr. Donna Burke
Themes
- high school
- satire
- lawsuit
- ohio
- high school teacher
- schoolteacher
- columbus, ohio
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Ratings
IMDb
6.1/10
4,775 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
62%
Metacritic
39/100
- Year
- 1984
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Rated
- R
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- comedy film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Arthur Hiller
- Composer
- Bryan Adams
- Producer
- Aaron Russo
- Production company
- United Artists
- Cinematographer
- David M. Walsh
- Narrative location
- Columbus
- Filming location
- Columbus
- Duration
- 106
- FilmAffinity ID
- 528790
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- film editor
- Don Zimmerman
- title
- Teachers
- distributed by
- Netflix
- review score
- 5.6/10
- capital cost
- 9000000
- box office
- 27774237
- publication date
- 1985-04-19
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