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Name: Notes On a Scandal
Released: 2006-12-25
Cast: Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Bill Nighy

Notes On a Scandal

R
1h 32m
2006

88%

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Academy Award® winners Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett give wickedly entertaining, Oscar-nominated performances, in this sexy, stylish thriller. Judi Dench mesmerizes as Barbara Covett, a teacher who rules over her classroom with an iron fist, yet leads a desperate, solitary life outside it. That is, until she meets radiant new art teacher Sheba Hart (Blanchett). Although at first overjoyed with her newfound kindred spirit, when Barbara discovers that Sheba is having an affair with a teenage student, her jealously and rage spiral out of control.

Director:

Richard Eyre

Producer:

Scott Rudin, Robert Fox

Writer:

Patrick Marber

Cast:

Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Bill Nighy

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

88%

Critics Consensus: In this sharp psychological thriller, Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett give fierce, memorable performances as two schoolteachers locked in a battle of wits.

Reviews

A Good Movie To Watch

Farah Cheded

A gripping twin character study... Darkly camp and spanning just 92 perfectly paced minutes, this is an intense immersion into two very ugly psyches.

Despite the trope of the predatory lesbian being the engine behind its plot, Notes on a Scandal is delicious fun. A most enjoyable entry into the hagsploitation genre with serious art house credentials.

Dench is compelling, and offers a transcendent portrait of a sociopath, whose bitter, fantasy-inflected interaction with the outside world is informed by a colossal solipsism.

October 29, 2019

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The Dispatch (Lexington, NC)

Mattie Lucas

A sharp, intelligent thriller whose thrills come not from car chases or shootouts - but from the power of words; glorious, unabashedly brutal words.

The strength of the writing, and therefore the directing, is that it sees the scandal as a minor point in a human experience that is naturally corrupt, and cares more about how those on the inside choose to deal with their realities.

June 25, 2017

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