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Paljastavat merkinnät

Original title: Notes on a Scandal
  • 20062006
  • K-15K-15
  • 1h 32m
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
79K
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POPULARITY
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Paljastavat merkinnät (2006)
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CrimeDramaRomance

A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her fifteen-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well ... Read allA veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her fifteen-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond a platonic friendship.A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her fifteen-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond a platonic friendship.

IMDb RATING
7.4/10
79K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
3,163
726
  • Director
    • Richard Eyre
  • Writers
    • Patrick Marber(screenplay)
    • Zoë Heller(novel "What Was She Thinking: Notes on a Scandal")
  • Stars
    • Cate Blanchett
    • Judi Dench
    • Andrew Simpson
Top credits
  • Director
    • Richard Eyre
  • Writers
    • Patrick Marber(screenplay)
    • Zoë Heller(novel "What Was She Thinking: Notes on a Scandal")
  • Stars
    • Cate Blanchett
    • Judi Dench
    • Andrew Simpson
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 311User reviews
    • 200Critic reviews
    • 73Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 4 Oscars
      • 15 wins & 74 nominations total

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    Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench in Paljastavat merkinnät (2006)
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    Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench in Paljastavat merkinnät (2006)
    Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench in Paljastavat merkinnät (2006)
    Judi Dench in Paljastavat merkinnät (2006)
    Cate Blanchett and Andrew Simpson in Paljastavat merkinnät (2006)
    Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench in Paljastavat merkinnät (2006)
    Judi Dench in Paljastavat merkinnät (2006)
    Cate Blanchett and Bill Nighy in Paljastavat merkinnät (2006)
    Judi Dench in Paljastavat merkinnät (2006)
    Cate Blanchett and Bill Nighy in Paljastavat merkinnät (2006)
    Cate Blanchett and Andrew Simpson in Paljastavat merkinnät (2006)

    Top cast

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    Cate Blanchett
    Cate Blanchett
    • Sheba Hart
    Judi Dench
    Judi Dench
    • Barbara Covett
    Andrew Simpson
    Andrew Simpson
    • Steven Connolly
    Tom Georgeson
    • Ted Mawson
    Michael Maloney
    Michael Maloney
    • Sandy Pabblem
    Joanna Scanlan
    Joanna Scanlan
    • Sue Hodge
    Shaun Parkes
    Shaun Parkes
    • Bill Rumer
    Emma Kennedy
    Emma Kennedy
    • Linda
    Syreeta Kumar
    • Gita
    Phil Davis
    Phil Davis
    • Brian Bangs
    Wendy Nottingham
    • Elaine Clifford
    Tameka Empson
    Tameka Empson
    • Antonia Robinson
    Leon Skinner
    • Davis
    Bill Nighy
    Bill Nighy
    • Richard Hart
    Juno Temple
    Juno Temple
    • Polly Hart
    Max Lewis
    • Ben Hart
    Debra Gillett
    • Lorraine
    Barry McCarthy
    Barry McCarthy
    • Dave
    • Director
      • Richard Eyre
    • Writers
      • Patrick Marber(screenplay)
      • Zoë Heller(novel "What Was She Thinking: Notes on a Scandal")
    • All cast & crew
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Jason Reitman read the script and wanted to direct it. He called up the producers on the phone with the intention of getting the job. The producers answered: "We are in editing right now, but I hope you'll like the film when it comes out."
    • Goofs
      When Sheba is rampaging through Barbara's house in search of her journal, you can see a crew member in the mirror behind her as she goes to sit.
    • Quotes

      Sheba Hart: What you say about me, about Richard - you're not fit to shine his shoes. And Ben, and Polly, that I'd be happier without them. Why did you do it?

      [slaps Barbara]

      Sheba Hart: Because I didn't help you collect your cat?

      [slaps Barbara again]

      Sheba Hart: You've cost me my family!

      Barbara Covett: No, no, take some responsibility! I gave you EXACTLY what you wanted! You'd still be stuck in that marriage without me.

      Sheba Hart: What?

      Barbara Covett: You can't accept it yet, but...

      Sheba Hart: You think I wanted to be here with you?

      Barbara Covett: You need me, I'm your friend!

      Sheba Hart: You put me in prison, I could get TWO years!

      Barbara Covett: They'll fly by! I'll visit you every week! We've so much life to live together!

      Sheba Hart: You think this is a love affair? A relationship? What, sticky gold stars, and - and a strand of my hair? A sticker from Pizza Express? It's a flat in the Archway Road and you think you're Virginia frigging Woolf! And where did you get my hair? Did you pluck it from the bath with some special fucking tweezers?

      Barbara Covett: You know it's rude to read a person's diary, it's private!

      Sheba Hart: We're not companions! We're not friends! You don't even like me!

      Barbara Covett: That's not true, I only have tender feelings for you, only love!

      Sheba Hart: You're barking, fucking mad. You don't know how to love. You have never, your whole life. Me, Jennifer Dodd. You're nothing but waste and disappointment! You bitter old virgin. You're lonely for a reason. They loathed you at school, all of them. I was the idiot who bothered, but only because no one told me you're a fucking vampire! So what is it, Bar? You want to roll around the floor like lovers? You want to fuck me, Barbara?

      Barbara Covett: Please don't diminish our...

      Sheba Hart: Our WHAT? What?

      Barbara Covett: Give it back. I know you! Selfish and vain, you think you have a divine right! You don't belong in the world, you belong here! You big baby!

    • Connections
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: The Best Films of 2006 (2006)
    • Soundtracks
      Funky Kingston
      Written by Toots Hibbert (as Frederick Hibbert)

      Performed by Toots & The Maytals (as Toots and the Maytals)

      Produced by Leslie Kong

      Reproduced by kind permission of Blue Mountain Music Ltd.

      Administered by Fairwood Music (UK) Ltd. (c) 1971

      Courtesy of Universal-Island Records Ltd.

      Under licence from Universal Music Operations Ltd.

      Courtesy of D&F Music Frederick Hibbert

    User reviews311

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    Featured review
    7/10
    Jarring Notes Superbly Performed
    Judi Dench and Cate Blanchet both have played the fierce Queen Elizabeth I in their careers and here they fight for the crown in a royal match that is as entertaining as it is jarring. Two civilized women breaking into very uncivilized patterns of behavior. A highbrow story with a tabloid sensibility performed with truth and gusto. Bette Davis would have killed for Judi Dench's part at the time of Baby Jane and although there is nothing grotesque in the way Dame Judy presents us her monster, the monster herself is grotesque. She explains, in a witty and consistent voice over, what's in her mind. The center of her intentions become so appallingly clear to us that Cate Blanchet's slowness to catch up becomes exasperating. Maybe her suffocating domestic situation throws her into the arms of her absurdity. She seems a woman searching for validation without any real vocation. A teacher who doesn't believe she can teach, a mediocre wife a light weight mother. Judi Dench is relentlessly solid in her madness made of longing and fears. I left the theater with a desperate need for a double scotch on the rocks, just to take a strange taste off my mouth.
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    • littlemartinarocena
    • Feb 26, 2007

    Details

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    • Release date
      • February 23, 2007 (Finland)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Official site
      • Fox Searchlight (United States)
    • Languages
      • English
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Notes on a Scandal
    • Filming locations
      • Parliament Hill, Hampstead Heath, Hampstead, London, England, UK
    • Production companies
      • Fox Searchlight Pictures
      • DNA Films
      • UK Film Council
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $15,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $17,510,118
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $414,487
      • Dec 31, 2006
    • Gross worldwide
      • $49,814,392
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 32 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • SDDS
      • Dolby
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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