Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999)
Average Rating: 4/10
Reviews Counted: 69
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 56
As a dark comedy-thriller, this movie lacks humor and thrill.
Average Rating: 3.9/10
Critic Reviews: 26
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 21
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
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Cast
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Helen Mirren
Mrs. Eve Tingle -
Katie Holmes
Leigh Ann Watson -
Jeffrey Tambor
Gym Coach -
Barry Watson
Luke Churner -
Marisa Coughlan
Jo Lynn Jordan -
Liz Stauber
Mary Beth Carter -
Michael McKean
Principal Potter -
Molly Ringwald
Substitute Teacher -
Vivica A. Fox
Guidance Counselor -
John Patrick White
Brian Perry -
Lesley Ann Warren
Mrs. Prescott -
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All Critics (83) | Top Critics (27) | Fresh (13) | Rotten (57) | DVD (8)
Depressing!
Top CriticAs a routinely cruel, often vicious, miserably unhappy teacher, Mirren offers a complex, brilliantly disciplined performance!
There is nothing funny about the situation in Teaching Mrs. Tingle.
Teaching Mrs. Tingle is funny, smart and full of unpredictable twists and turns.
A screenful of nothingness!
A good mix of the nostalgic and the brand-new!
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.
Audience Reviews for Teaching Mrs. Tingle
Super Reviewer
"Teaching Mrs. Tingle" wasn't a bad movie at all. Helen Mirren does a spectacular job playing as the dreaded Mrs. Tingle, and the movie is very interesting, especially after you find out what Leigh Ann's and two of her friends' plans are to do with Mrs. Tingle.
Just as long as you like interesting movies that don't get boring, give "Teaching Mrs. Tingle" a chance! It just might teach you a lesson. NOTE: That was my Amazon review from the year 2001. Never expected to like this one much, a surprise.
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