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"Gyllenhaal offers a beautifully nuanced performance full of intelligence and desperation..."
Rippling with psychological complexity and sneaky humor..."
THE STORY
Based on the 2014 Israeli film of the same name, The Kindergarten Teacher stars Maggie Gyllenhaal as a forty-year old married kindergarten teacher living in Staten Island who is terminally bored with her banal middle-class existence. When she becomes convinced that her five-year-old student is a budding poetic genius, she decides to nurture his talents in a reckless and questionable manner.
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