#30. Detachment
Director: Tony Kaye
Writer(s): Carl Lund
Producers: Bingo Gubelmann, Benji Kohn, Carl Lund, Chris Papavasiliou and Austin Stark
Distributor: Rights Available.
The Gist: This 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 (Adrien Brody). Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment….(more)
Cast: Adrien Brody, Christina Hendricks, James Caan, Lucy Liu, Marcia Gay Harden, Bryan Cranston, William Petersen, Blythe Danner and Tim Blake Nelson
List Worthy Reasons…: It’d be great if this would be a double Tony Kaye film type of year. But ahead of the troubled Black Water Transit, we would much rather prefer to see this: a high school drama from the point of view of the teachers and principles. The cast is fine, and from what we heard the screenplay is actually pretty solid. I’m hoping that this is Kaye’s big comeback moment.
Release Date/Status?: Completed. Should receive a festival premiere where it’ll find a proper suitor.
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