Love. Expulsion. Revolution.
When a beautiful first-grade teacher arrives at a prep school, she soon attracts the attention of an ambitious teenager named Max, who quickly falls in love with her. Max turns to the father of two of his schoolmates for advice on how to woo the teacher. However, the situation soon gets complicated when Max's new friend becomes involved with her, setting the two pals against one another in a war for her attention.
ComedyDramalone wolfprivate schooltheater playtheatre grouptheater directorcoming of ageprecocious childcomplexteenager
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Character
Contemporary, intimate, spare and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
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Cast
- Jason SchwartzmanMax Fischer
- Bill MurrayHerman Blume
- Olivia WilliamsRosemary Cross
- Seymour CasselBert Fischer
- Brian CoxDr. Nelson Guggenheim
- Mason GambleDirk Calloway
- Sara TanakaMargaret Yang
- Stephen McColeMagnus Buchan
- Luke WilsonDr. Peter Flynn
- Dipak PallanaMr. Adams
Crew
- Wes AndersonDirector
- Wes AndersonWriter
- Owen WilsonWriter
- Robert D. YeomanDirector of Photography
- Mark MothersbaughOriginal Music Composer
- David MoritzEditor
- Barry MendelProducer
- Paul SchiffProducer
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