Teaching Mrs. Tingle

Name: Teaching Mrs. Tingle
Genre: Thriller, Comedy
Released: August 20, 1999
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 35
Cast: Helen Mirren, Katie Holmes, Marisa Coughlan

1999

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Dimension Films | Release Date: August 20, 1999 | PG-13

Starring: Helen Mirren, Katie Holmes, Marisa Coughlan

Summary: All her life Leigh Ann Watson (Holmes) has done the right thing. Her only ticket out of town is the one scholarship that goes to her school's top student. All she needs is an "A" in history. There's just one problem: Mrs. Tingle, the history teacher who for 20 years has terrorized the students of Grandsboro High. (Dimension Films)

Director: Kevin Williamson

Genre(s): Thriller, Comedy

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 96 min

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Ernest Hardy

A dark, biting comedy-- funny, smart and full of unpredictable twist and turns. Read full review

Steven Rea

Williamson's screenplay doesn't match the cleverness of his conceit; it lacks the requisite archness and wit. Read full review

Susan Wloszczyna

Mirren is about the only reason this slow-moving revenge tale tingles at all. Read full review

Janet Maslin

Newly benign and noticeably clumsier than the hits (Williamson) has written. Read full review

Jay Carr

Mostly a screenful of nothingness. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

A pat, hollow exercises with few tricks (or treats) up its sleeve. Read full review

TNT RoughCut Christopher Brandon

One of the worst movies released this year.

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BradL.

Dec 26, 2005

If u haven't seen it, u have missed a lot.

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AmateurfilmVWR

Jan 11, 2023

This was so 90s horror/comedy. Helen Mirren was fantastically evil in this.

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Paramilitary400

May 17, 2015

This movie should never have been made. Kevin Williamson is strictly a writer, he wrote the screenplays for the Scream series and The Faculty. He'd never directed a movie before this one. His lack of experience shows in in how the movie only has Katie Holmes. Also the plot and his directionThis movie should never have been made. Kevin Williamson is strictly a writer, he wrote the screenplays for the Scream series and The Faculty. He'd never directed a movie before this one. His lack of experience shows in in how the movie only has Katie Holmes. Also the plot and his direction go nowhere. The movie pitched itself as a dark comedy but the comedy and the darkness of the movie is its downfall not its empowerment. The movie attempted to emulate the other dark comedies that were released that year, Election and Jawbreaker. This movie is utterly incompetent on every reviewable level and the critical reviews were absolutely accurate with this movie.… Expand

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