Check out this trailer for the upcoming film, Detachment directed by Tony Kaye (American History X) and starring Academy-Award winner Adrien Brody. The film premiered at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival.

 

SYNOPSIS

Director Tony Kaye’s (AMERICAN HISTORY X) long-awaited film DETACHMENT stars Academy Award® winner Adrien Brody as Henry Barthes, a substitute teacher who conveniently avoids any emotional connections by never staying anywhere long enough to form a bond with either his students or colleagues. A lost soul grappling with a troubled past, Henry finds himself at a public school where an apathetic student body has created a frustrated, burned-out administration. Inadvertently becoming a role model to his students, while also bonding with a runaway teen who is just as lost as he is, Henry finds that he’s not alone in a life and death struggle to find beauty in a seemingly vicious and loveless world.

 

Ever since Blackboard Jungle, I have been a sucker for films about teachers – my dad was a teacher as is one of my brothers.

The film is available on demand from February 24th and will be in theaters starting March 16th.

 

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