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Release Date:
5 January 2007 (Canada)
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Tagline:
One Woman's Mistake Is Another's Opportunity... more
Plot:
A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for 4 Oscars.
Another 10 wins
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35 nominations
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(28 articles)
Bill Nighy: 'I am not suddenly the greatest actor in the world'
(From The Guardian - Film News. 19 November 2009, 3:54 AM, PST)
10 Most Underrated Young Actresses
(From The Movie Fanatic. 22 October 2009, 1:48 AM, PDT)
(From The Guardian - Film News. 19 November 2009, 3:54 AM, PST)
10 Most Underrated Young Actresses
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State of the art acting by Dench, Blanchett and Nighy
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Judi Dench | ... | Barbara Covett |
 | Cate Blanchett | ... | Sheba Hart |
 | Tom Georgeson | ... | Ted Mawson |
| Michael Maloney | ... | Sandy Pabblem |
| Joanna Scanlan | ... | Sue Hodge |
| Shaun Parkes | ... | Bill Rumer |
| Emma Kennedy | ... | Linda |
| Syreeta Kumar | ... | Gita |
| Andrew Simpson | ... | Steven Connolly |
| Philip Davis | ... | Brian Bangs (as Phil Davis) |
| Wendy Nottingham | ... | Elaine Clifford |
| Tameka Empson | ... | Antonia Robinson |
| Leon Skinner | ... | Davis |
 | Bill Nighy | ... | Richard Hart |
 | Juno Temple | ... | Polly Hart |
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Rated R for language and some aberrant sexual content.
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92 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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USA:R |
Singapore:M18 |
UK:15 |
Ireland:16 |
Australia:MA |
Netherlands:12 |
Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) |
Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) |
Brazil:14 |
Finland:K-15 |
Argentina:16 |
Canada:14A (Ontario) |
Germany:12 |
Portugal:M/16 (Qualidade) |
South Korea:18 |
Malaysia:18PL (DVD) |
Japan:R-15 |
New Zealand:M
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In Mexico, some press and merchandising material claimed this movie to be "A film by Bill Nighy", whereas Bill Nighy is an actor in this movie.
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Continuity: When Brian comes to Barbara's house and they sit at the table, Barbara smokes a cigarette which in one clip has been smoked by a third, but in the next shot of her the cigarette looks like it's just been lit.
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Quotes:
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Barbara Covett: [voiceover of Barbara writing in her diary] People trust me with their secrets. But who do I trust with mine? You, only you.
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Barbara Covett: [voiceover of Barbara writing in her diary] People trust me with their secrets. But who do I trust with mine? You, only you.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in 13th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2007) (TV)
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Soundtrack:
Fit But You Know It
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What a treat to watch three of the best actors of our time in the same movie! Judy Dench is an international treasure; Cate Blanchett never looked better or created a more compelling character in any of her other movies, and I had the good fortune to discover Bill Nighy on Broadway in "The Vertical Hour" with Julianne Moore the night before I saw "Notes from a Scandal," and I now want to see everything he's done. A superlative creator of character. "Notes from a Scandal" tells us a lot about the "British" penchant for relishing "scandals" (they invented the tabloid press) and also about the odd, intersecting relationships that have become a nearly commonplace reality in the contemporary world. Both Blanchett and Dench (as Sheba and Barbara) teach at the same Islington secondary school. And both, in very different ways, embark on "inappropriate" relationships that create turmoil in their lives and the lives of their community. Judy Dench conveys the desperate loneliness of her character's life and a remarkable scene of her smoking a cigarette in a bathtub conveys the distinction between her kind of loneliness--an older, unattractive, single woman with no real connections in life--and the more endurable kinds of loneliness that many of us share. This is a gripping film that moves crisply from one scene to the next, missing only a very few beats along the way. A must see.