DVD : Notes on a Scandal
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0024543438915
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 20
Label: 20th Century Fox
Languages:
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
MPN: FOXD2243898D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 17, 2007
Running Time: 92 minutes
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
A pottery teacher enters into an affair with one of her students causing upheaval in her personal & professional lives. Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 03/04/2008 Starring: Judi Dench Cate Blanchett Run time: 121 minutes Rating: R
Amazon.com:
Gold stars to all for this taut psychological thriller based on Zoe Heller’s novel that that gets more insidiously twisted as it unfolds. Oscar-nominated for her chilling performance, Dame Judi Dench gives a master class as schoolteacher Barbara Covett, a frumpy, friendless, and flinty spinster who lives with her cat. A formidable presence, Barbara is standoffish with colleagues and not one for students to trifle with (not that they’d dare). Cate Blanchett, also an Oscar nominee and winner of several critics society awards for her impassioned performance, costars as Sheba Hart, the new, overwhelmed art teacher who first becomes enthrall to Barbara after she steps in to help Sheba discipline unruly students. Barbara cultivates a friendship, and insinuates herself into Sheba’s chaotic life, which includes her older husband (Bill Nighy), teenage daughter, and a son with Down’s syndrome. Then, Barbara catches the reckless Sheba in a compromising position with a 15-year-old student (Andrew Simpson). Seizing her opportunity, the calculating Barbara does not turn her in. Rather, she wants to “help” her. “She’s the one I’ve been waiting for,” she writes in the journals she meticulously keeps, and which provide, in voiceover, her corrosive commentary. This all sounds very Fatal Attraction, but no boiling rabbits, please; we’re British. Philip Glass’s Oscar-nominated score accentuates the growing menace. Though there is little in these characters to admire, (one would think GLAAD would have something to say about the predatory turn Barbara’s character takes), Notes on a Scandal is a compelling tour-de-force for its Grade-A cast. –Donald Liebenson
Notes on a Scandal Extras 
Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench on their characters in the film
Beyond Notes on a Scandal 
Book to Movie Adaptations 
More Cate Blanchett Films 
What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal: A Novel
Stills from Notes on a Scandal 
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Subtle manipulation and obsession frame this drama
This story of two intertwined characters who suffer in silence and are crumbling under their loneliness. Judy Dench and Cate Blanchett, two ordinarily strong characters unravel in a remarkably genuine and fascinating story of a flawed symbiotic relationship caused by an indiscretion based in the chasing of youth. The characters fill a void within each other, that ultimately leads to their downfall. This film is psychologically fascinating and the two actresses are absolutely brilliant, in an albeit, … Read More
Rating: 
- Not What It Could Have Been
I wanted so much to be enthralled with this film as much as I was with Blanchett and Denchs’ performances. They played off each other quite well-especially Dench who is usually such a scene-stealer. Dench plays Barbara, a rather callous loner and a teacher at the same school where Blanchett (Sheba Hart) meets her 15yr old, secret love-interest. Barbara learns her secret but keeps it to herself. Her interest in Sheba goes beyond a friendly protectiveness; she becomes possessive. I liked the basic plotline … Read More
Rating: 
- Social decay in film…
I can’t give a film that has brought ruin to several young American teachers a good review. This film is a torch at the edge of our educational system.
I think this may be a British fault as I saw another story about an homosexual British history master.
In any case it was delivered by an American company that should have known better.
As an art film with an X rating , I would approve of such a film as drama and art, but not as a popular widely distributed as we see here.
The acting … Read More
Rating: - two needy women
This is a great film and is somewhat of a cautionary tale about two women who are emotionally needy. One woman is a veteran school teacher who commands respect from both the staff at the school and the students. The other is a new school teacher who is extremely attractive, but her looks are a contrast to how things are going in her personal/home life. The former of the two is single, approaching retirment and the only friend she had in her life before meeting the new teacher was her cat. The latter of the … Read More
Rating: - Notes on a scandal
The service from this seller was great, the movie itself, not so much. I guess I’m just not big on English films!
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