Teachers

1984 · 107 MIN · IMDB 6.1 · 4,811 VOTES · DIR. Arthur Hiller

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Overview

A teacher reconnects with an old student who is now an attorney representing a family who is suing the school for graduating their son who still cannot read or write. Amid the daily chaos of teaching in an inner city school, Alex Jurel tries to decide if he will lie at his deposition to protect the school or tell the truth and risk throwing away his career.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,404 lines

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00:01:42 All right, all right. Get back now. Get back. Get over there.
00:06:05 You know, oxygen masks. Things like that.
00:09:57 She poured ink, ink, all over Ditto.
00:14:16 or we're gonna have to take action.
00:17:32 Superintendent Burke is in the conference room with Principal Horn.
00:21:21 Well, as you can see here in regards to custody
00:25:33 - Yeah, yeah. Cowboys! - Yeah...
00:30:07 Yeah, I know. Well, I've always wondered what one looked like.
00:34:35 Fuck you!
00:39:47 Boy, Lisa, you've been gone a long time.
00:43:11 Why not?
00:49:08 Hiawatha was a man, Tim.
00:53:39 I've been on the phone with Dr. Burke all morning.
00:57:50 It's just, I can't understand the teachers.
01:00:54 What, you want to go back to juvie again?
01:05:44 And you people are beautiful.
01:10:46 You know what really gets to me?
01:15:02 I demand to know why you are flunking my son.
01:18:22 We've gotta dump Jurel.
01:24:00 Gower.
01:29:27 Ms. Warren
01:34:10 Wouldn't you like to hear that, Rog, old buddy?
01:39:41 Well, I'm not.
02:03:00 students here at Kennedy every year.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,404
Dialogue density13.1 lines / min
First line00:01:42
Final line02:03:00

Production Record

DirectorArthur Hiller
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes4,811