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Teachers
Directed by
Arthur Hiller
R
1984
1h 47m
Drama
,
Comedy
6.1
62%
46%
5.7
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A well meaning but burned-out high school teacher tries to maintain order against the backdrop of a pending lawsuit against his school district when it comes to light they gave a diploma to an illiterate student.
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Cast of Teachers
Nick Nolte
Alex Jurel
JoBeth Williams
Lisa Hammond
Judd Hirsch
Roger Rubell
Ralph Macchio
Eddie Pilikian
Allen Garfield
Carl Rosenberg
Lee Grant
Dr. Donna Burke
Richard Mulligan
Herbert Gower
Royal Dano
Ditto Stiles
William Schallert
Horn
Art Metrano
Troy
Laura Dern
Diane
Crispin Glover
Danny
Morgan Freeman
Lewis
Madeleine Sherwood
Grace
Steven Hill
Sloane
Zohra Lampert
Mrs. Pilikian
Mary Alice
Linda Ganz
Katherine Balfour
Theresa
Vivian Bonnell
Nurse
Virginia Capers
Landlady
Teachers Ratings & Reviews
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Stack
The comedy doesn't pay off in this story that has pretensions to deal with serious issues. Still, the thing may be worth seeing, if only because it's the only movie that attempts to look behind the scenes of an urban high school.
Miami Herald
Laurie Horn
It's not the comedic touch that's the problem, it's that the touch doesn't sting.
Philadelphia Daily News
Joe Baltake
You can enjoy this film, but don't expect any revelations or answers. It asks us to laugh off a serious situation.
Charlotte Observer
JoAnn Rhetts
"Teachers" is one of the 10 best movies of this year. Maybe one of the five best.
New York Daily News
Kathleen Carroll
Fails to communicate its message of social concern and it winds up looking as frenzied and juvenile as every other teen exploitation flick.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Mike Ritchey
Nolte is always interesting to watch. Had they not been detained with an elementary-school script, both he and the picture would have fared better.
Hartford Courant
Malcolm Johnson
For all of its faults, this film teaches an important lesson about the betrayal of the promise of American public education, and makes you feel both pity and admiration for its subjects.
Sacramento Bee
George Williams
You walk out feeling badly used.
Detroit Free Press
Catharine Rambeau
Despite its faults, "Teachers" has moments that make it worth seeing. Just don't expect too much.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Pollack
When "Teachers" works, and it works quite often, it's due to a superior collection of actors, all of whom bring a large amount of energy and talent to the proceedings.
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
"Teachers" may mean well, but it flunks out.
Austin American-Statesman
Patrick Taggart
Call it a D minus, and let's go to recess.
Baltimore Sun
Stephen Hunter
"Teachers" is a good deal more fun to go to than high school ever was.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Bob Lundegaard
If the script calls for an ex-idealist who's grown battered butting his head against the system, the producer says, "Get me Nolte!"
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
"Teachers" suffers from awkward shifts in tone from satire and slapstick to the intensely earnest and heart-tugging, but at its core it offers a serious study of schoolroom malaise.
Box Office Prophets
Sean Collier
Teachers is so head-tiltingly different, to a modern viewer, that it's worth a curious watch.
Variety
Variety Staff
Pic makes stinging , important points about the mess of secondary public education, but those points are diluted gradually by an overload of comic absurdity.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The idea here was to do for teaching what MASH did for the war. Unfortunately, they've done for schools what General Hospital did for medicine.
New York Times
Janet Maslin
Whenever ''Teachers'' begins to seem a realistic appraisal of the public school system - and there are many scenes in which it does - the film is apt to break its own mood with false-sounding dialogue, conspicuous miscasting or a very broad gag.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
Someone had another Hospital in mind, and they even hired Arthur Hiller to direct it, but the attempt to merge black humor and strident social commentary seems even more uncertain this time.
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