Average Rating: 4/10
Reviews Counted: 69
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 56
As a dark comedy-thriller, this movie lacks humor and thrill.
Average Rating: 4/10
Critic Reviews: 24
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 19
As a dark comedy-thriller, this movie lacks humor and thrill.
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After the success of Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and television's Dawson's Creek, screenwriter Kevin Williamson made his directorial debut with this screwball thriller in which an honor roll student and two friends kidnap their witchy teacher. Although her single mom (Lesley Ann Warren), a waitress, struggles to make ends meet, aspiring writer Leigh Ann Watson (Katie Holmes) works hard, avoids sexual temptation, and focuses on her studies. She hopes to make valedictorian and earn a
Aug 20, 1999 Wide
Dec 21, 1999
All Critics (82) | Top Critics (25) | Fresh (13) | Rotten (57) | DVD (8)
Depressing!
A wildly uneven and sloppily directed movie, full of clashing tones and undigested bits of superior films.
There is nothing funny about the situation in Teaching Mrs. Tingle.
Newly benign, and noticeably clumsy.
Teaching Mrs. Tingle is funny, smart and full of unpredictable twists and turns.
Misguided teen thriller -- don't bother.
Helen Mirren's acting stands out in this mean-spirited dark comedy like an original Picasso in a paint-by-numbers art show.
Here you have a movie in which three teenagers go to a teacher's house and take her hostage. Either you go all the way with that premise, or you don't go there at all.
...a disappointingly flat piece of work.
Admittedly junky but wickedly watchable revenge fantasy.
If the movie is never necessarily boring, it also is rarely interesting.
Mirren singlehandedly rescues the project from being pointless nonsense; this brilliant actress can communicate more with a twitch of a lip or a well-timed flick of her eyelashes than anyone else in the cast can with pages of dialogue.
Mrs. Tingle (Helen Mirren) is a teacher who is hated by almost everyone, including students and even most of the other faculty members. Mrs. Tingle seems to have a dislike for everyone, even if they're super smart, such as Leigh Ann (Katie Holmes). Leigh Ann must be the valedictorian in order to get a scholarship and
September 11, 2009Super Reviewer
this was an alright movie, helen mirren is playing the teacher who is basically a bitch and is trying to ruin thiis student whose working hard for scholarship played by katie holmes and even though it has some comiic value they are short and fair between so its an watchable movie!
September 29, 2007
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