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Title: Detachment (2011)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Adrien Brody | ... | Henry Barthes | |
| Marcia Gay Harden | ... | Principal Carol Dearden | |
| James Caan | ... | Mr. Charles Seaboldt | |
| Christina Hendricks | ... | Ms. Sarah Madison | |
| Lucy Liu | ... | Dr. Doris Parker | |
| Blythe Danner | ... | Ms. Perkins | |
| Tim Blake Nelson | ... | Mr. Wiatt | |
| William Petersen | ... | Mr. Sarge Kepler | |
| Bryan Cranston | ... | Mr. Dearden | |
| Sami Gayle | ... | Erica | |
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Betty Kaye | ... | Meredith |
| Louis Zorich | ... | Grampa | |
| Isiah Whitlock Jr. | ... | Mr. Mathias | |
| Chris Papavasiliou | ... | Dr. Hart | |
| Kwoade Cross | ... | Andy | |
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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I saw this at Woodstock Film Festival, a few months after it premiered at Tribeca. I had the pleasure of driving Tony to the screening, and decided that I would stay for a few minutes to see the opening few minutes of the film, after seeing just a few seconds of it during the tech rehearsal earlier. After 30 seconds, I was hooked and could not get away. This film needs to be seen, people need to understand the conditions and circumstances presented in it of urban school environments; the trials that teachers and students face everyday, and the ravages wrought by "No Child Left Behind". The role played by Sami Gayle is astonishing, where she found that character is beyond me. I gave it a 9 our of 10 only because there were some scene-break graphics in the film that, while making sense, seemed to me to break the flow of the film. A must see. Tough to watch in places, but necessary.