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Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #17. Cory Finley’s Bad Education

Published on February 8, 2019

Bad Education

Moving from a brilliant dark comedy (Thoroughbreds) off campus mind-games to shark infested waters of the high school experience, for Cory Finley‘s sophomore feature he lines up a noteworthy cast comprised toplined by Hugh Jackman and Allison Janney and works from the text of I Think We’re Alone Now‘s Mike Makowsky. Filming on Bad Education took place in NYC this past October.

Gist: The unfolding of the single largest public school embezzlement scandal in history.

Release Date/Prediction: Toronto Intl. Film Festival could be the launchpad for the pic.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).