Caught between its aims? Three students get more than they bargained for when a theft of a test results paper leads to a deadly battle of wills with their kidnapped teacher, Mrs. Tingle. It seems to me that director and writer, Kevin Wiliamson, got confused as to which direction the film should go in. At times it's jaunty when the scene appears to call for menace, and at others just plain boring if the scene was meant to be actually funny (in that sarcastic, almost satirical way). The film could have worked at either being a comedy or a thriller, but the fusion of the two just doesn't work, and this failing has to fall at Williamson's door, it's as if Scream was all a fluke after all? The cast struggle with the meanderingly dull screenplay, only the stoic (and sexy) Helen Mirren salvaging any sort of dignity by realising early on that the core of the film calls for deft nastiness instead of outright villainy. Poor and practically unwatchable these days. 2/10
Teaching Mrs. Tingle
1999
Comedy / Crime / Horror
Teaching Mrs. Tingle
Before school lets out, Mrs. Tingle's class is going to need a substitute teacher.
1999
Comedy / Crime / Horror
Synopsis
A bright high-school senior has her impending status as valedictorian jeopardized when her bitter history teacher, Mrs. Tingle, gives her a poor grade on a project. When an attempt to get ahead in Mrs. Tingle's class goes awry, mayhem ensues and friendships, loyalties and trust are tested by the teacher's intricate mind-games.
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August 11, 1999, Wed at 01:28 AM
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Cast
Helen Mirren as Mrs. Tingle
Katie Holmes as Leigh Ann Watson
Barry Watson as Luke Churner
Marisa Coughlan as Jo Lynn Jordan
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