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Teachers
Directed by
Arthur Hiller
R
1984
1h 47m
Drama
,
Comedy
6.1
61%
46%
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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
Ellen Crawford
Social Worker
Terrance Ellis
Tim Hahn
Aaron Freeman
Brinkman
Patricia Gaul
Lowe
Anthony Heald
Narc
Ronald Hunter
Mr. Pilikian
Julia Jennings
The Blonde
Stephen Mendillo
Lecture Cop
Jeffrey Ware
Malloy
Richard Zobel
Propes
Da Nang McKay
Wounded Kid
Virginia Smith
Lee
Ray Noch
Dan Hall
Maria D. Magisano
Alvado
Bill Marinella
Paller
Noerena Abookire
Terry Davis
Andrew Ream
Henson
Jennifer Quilty
Sarah
Kimberly Pullins
Student
David Caltrider
Student
Marvin Morgan
Student
Shantel R. Chappell
Student
Dan Levinson
Student
Donte St. John
Student
Ken Feil
Student
Vicki Lynn Puzinas
Student
Tony Lincoln
Guard
Wilbert Bradley
Guard
Ron Dean
Guard
Jamie Newell
Guard
Ronald Merians
Guard
Zaid Farid
Cop
Bernard Canepari
Cop
Will Zahrn
Cop
Simon Williams
Attendant
Paul Zegler
Attendant
Dick Sollenberger
Attendant
Phillip S. Wilson
Teacher
Allan Byrne
Teacher
Mary Louise Wilson
Teacher
Nick Baldasare
Teacher Playing Ping Pong (uncredited)
John Branch
Student (uncredited)
Laura Coker
Secretary (uncredited)
Timothy Holmes
Student (uncredited)
Rob Liotti
Student (uncredited)
Brian Walker
Student (uncredited)
Rob Finney
Student (Uncredited)
Teachers Ratings & Reviews
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.
Box Office Prophets
Sean Collier
Teachers is so head-tiltingly different, to a modern viewer, that it's worth a curious watch.
Detroit Free Press
Catherine Rambeau
Despite its faults, "Teachers" has moments that make it worth seeing. Just don't expect too much.
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.
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.
Sacramento Bee
George Williams
You walk out feeling badly used.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Santa Cruz Sentinel
Tom Long
All of these people are very good in their parts, doing more with the characters than the script really implies and making them, if not believable, at least watchable.
Classic Film and Television
Michael E. Grost
involving tribute to everyone who teaches
Creative Loafing
Matt Brunson
It's too often painfully obvious in its implications and heavy-handed in its delivery, but that's countered by the assembly of an exceptional cast as well as the prevalence of themes that remain relevant to this day.
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