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Detachment (2011) 7.6
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7.6/10 from 26,284 users
Metascore: 52/100
Reviews: 87 user | 119 critic | 20 from Metacritic.com A substitute teacher who drifts from classroom to classroom finds a connection to the students and teachers during his latest assignment. Director:Tony KayeWriter:Carl Lund |
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Mr. Charles Seaboldt
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Ms. Sarah Madison
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Dr. Doris Parker
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Ms. Perkins
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Mr. Wiatt
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Mr. Dearden
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Betty Kaye | ... |
Meredith
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Grampa
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Mr. Mathias
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Chris Papavasiliou | ... |
Dr. Hart
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Andy
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Detachment is a chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of a substitute teacher named Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment. A perfect profession for one seeking to hide out in the open. One day Henry arrives at his next assignment. Upon his entry into this particular school, a secret world of emotion is awakened within him by three women. A girl named Meredith in his first period. A fellow teacher Ms. Madison, and a street hooker named Erica, whom Henry has personally granted brief shelter from the streets. Each one of these women, like Henry, are in a life and death struggle to find beauty in a seemingly vicious and loveless world. Written by Anonymous
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
1 February 2012 (France) See more »Also Known As:
O Substituto See more »Filming Locations:
Mineola High School - 10 Armstrong Road, Garden City Park, Long Island, New York, USA See more »Box Office
Opening Weekend:
$10,739 (USA) (16 March 2012)Gross:
$71,177 (USA) (27 April 2012)Company Credits
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In the morning of Erica's first stay in Henry's flat, we see Henry on the roof wearing the ring which Erica will give him days later as a present. See more »Quotes
Henry Barthes: [agitated at assisted living nurse] Let me be very clear here, you stop neglecting his needs, or I will start fucking with yours! Or I will have you fired! That is going to be your family! Your children or going to be at risk! You got it?See more »
Detachment is a dark movie which everyone can relate with, the solitariness, the cynicism, the despair and the darker shades of our lives which we cover with many other things. It doesn't end on a good note unlike the common genre movies - it could have easily drifted that way to be more appealing. But then who's gonna live happily forever!!
Though the education system and the schools and the students ain't that evil and rotten the way its shown in the movie, it does pose many a question, the dubious system in which everything goes on without a point. The miserable life of teachers were beautifully shown, yes they do go through worse situations. Adrien Brody does something meaty after pianist as the cool, composed and ailing substitute teacher. The climax was so dramatic and metaphorical, the background score adds value to the visual richness.
The screenplay is too dark at times, the lighter moments and the virtuous elements highly underplayed though it saves the movie many a time from drowning. I loved the way the narration takes us through, we feel the pain the characters are going through. Wish had it been lighter in content with some thing which kindled a ray of virtue somewhere, Alas! but that's the way it is..