There’s a nice soundtrack featuring the Rizzle Kicks, amongst others, and a rousing fencing finale set in Pendennis Castle.
Jack Whitehall, There is natural male buttock and full frontal nudity as a man has his pants pulled down in two separate scenes.
Characters frequently drink and occasionally smoke, and there are a few club scenes where drug use is implied but not shown. A teen boy gives a teen girl a hard time about an article she is writing for the school paper and she grabs her backpack spilling papers on the floor.
Directed by Cory Finley.
I'd say its a very soft "R" with that rating purely because of language and adult content. By using this site you are agreeing to our privacy and cookie policy.
Two men dance and embrace on a dance floor in a bar, two men embrace on a sofa and two men hug.
We've gone through several editorial changes since we started covering films in 1992 and older reviews are not as complete & accurate as recent ones; we plan to revisit and correct older reviews as resources and time permits. zergnet.src = (document.location.protocol == "https:" ? A man threatens a woman and reassigns her to a different department. There is also brief sight of a box of sex toys which are later used as weapons, with men waving a dildo around and a man striking a riot police shield with the string of beads. In another scene a man is dared to 'tea bag' a swan and there is sight of a pair of testicles resting on the swan's head. 94% TOMATOMETER The beloved superintendent of New York's Roslyn school district and his staff, friends and relatives become the prime suspects in the unfolding of the single largest public school embezzlement scandal in American history. If you think what we do is worthwhile, please donate or become a member.
A man says, “I would kill someone for a carb.” A man jokingly tells a woman, “I will kill you” as she forces a sandwich into his mouth.
Talented British comedian Jack Whitehall lays his cards on the table in The Bad Education Movie’s pre-opening-credit sequence where, as an inept school teacher taking his class on a school trip to Amsterdam, he uses a disabled pupil to queue-jump past a line of Hasidic Jews at Anne Frank House, inadvertently takes drugs, sees a talking panda and runs off through the city with a mannequin Anne before falling into a canal in an ET tribute.
Summary THE BAD EDUCATION MOVIE is a British comedy about an inept teacher taking his class on a school trip to Cornwall.
– People in a Vegas casino are shown holding alcoholic drinks around a gambling table, people at a bar are shown with alcoholic drinks, a man drinks whiskey with a meal, and people drink alcohol and smoke cigarettes at a house pool party and at a bar. Talulah Riley, – Appearances can be thoroughly deceiving and nobody in authority should be trusted without objective oversight.
var znscr = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; There's also an intimate scene with Hugh Jackman getting intimate with another man. What is the age rating for Bad Education? The MPAA has not rated this film. 0 /5000 Directed by Cory Finley. Entertainment Film Distributors, who also handled the release of the box-office 2011 hit The Inbetweeners Movie dealt with the release of the Bad Education Movie.
I was thinking about watching it with a younger person and was wondering about what kind of content is in it. This year’s Stars will participate in a live discussion on Zoom.
The film saw ineffectual teacher Alfie Wickers travelling to Cornwall with his students.
A woman yells at a teen girl when she asks her about inconsistent budgetary items.
– Two men go to a man’s hotel room where one man caresses the other man’s hair and they kiss passionately (sex is implied).
IMDb’s age rating system is unreliable and isn’t completed as of yet anyway. ► A woman wears a low-cut top that reveals cleavage.
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There is use of strong language ('motherf**ker' and 'f**k').
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IMDb?? – Public education, competitive nature of school districts, property values, aging, integrity, challenge, taking risks, trust, moral responsibility, vanity, insider trading, corruption, embezzling, heroes, community service, secrets, collusion, success, gifted students, standardized testing.
– A man is shown being sedated on an operating table and a surgeon uses a scalpel to cut along the side of his face (we see the incision and blood). Feel free to give spoilers. Bad Education won’t change the world, and viewers probably have to be both British and in the right frame of mind to best appreciate its highjinks, but this film will make a world of difference to Jack Whitehall’s career, offering opportunties similar to those taken by James Corden and Ricky Gervais.
Funny? Several people are arrested and taken from their homes in handcuffs by police. The beloved superintendent of New York's Roslyn school district and his staff, friends and relatives become the prime suspects in the unfolding of the single largest public school embezzlement scandal in American history.
This excellent but weighty quasi-autobiographical film follows on the heels of Pedro Almodóvar's 1999 Academy Award winning film All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre).The director spent ten years working on Bad Education.While loosely based on his youth in a Catholic boarding school, Almodóvar says he spent years reworking the story to distance it from his own life. A woman yells at her adult son and slaps a bag of pretzels out of his hands; a man then grabs her to calm her down.
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By Fionnuala Halligan, Chief Film Critic2015-08-21T11:05:00+01:00. The class’s cheerful stereotyping is comically palatable (the fat kid, the gay kid, the boy in the wheelchair, etc) carried by The Bad Education Movie’s breezy cheerfulness.
Other characters occasionally smoke marijuana.
There are frequent strong and crude sex references including jokes about masturbation, erections and anal sex. A man talks about his wife having died.
Cut This work was passed uncut. ?s age rating system is unreliable and isn?? Unlike others of its type, this film isn’t at all harsh on the eye, and Hegarty makes playful cinematic references throughout which underscore the performances and some snappy writing. A teen girl says, “I’m gonna get sick” (she leaves the room and we do not see her get sick). THE ASSIGNED NUMBERS Already a highly successful stand-up comedian in the UK and star of another hit TV show Fresh Meat, Whitehall is the son of producer/talent agent Michael Whitehall (they have written a book together called Him & Me). While we read all emails & try to reply we don't always manage to do so; be assured that we will not share your e-mail address. Feel free to give spoilers. Iain Glen, ► Many people in an audience yell at a man on a stage and one man says that he and others should be in jail for their illegal activity.
Summary THE BAD EDUCATION MOVIE is a British comedy about an inept teacher taking his class on a school trip to Cornwall.
Yes, of course; this is schoolboy humour run amok.
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It should succeed, and if for some reason it falters at the box office (where it is released by and exec-produced by Entertainment, like The Inbetweeners), this goofy low-budget comedy with notably decent production values is certainly set for a healthy commercial life, some plum TV deals at home, possibly even a sequel. Subscribe now for monthly editions, awards season weeklies, access to the Screen International archive and supplements including Stars of Tomorrow and World of Locations. The only concerning thing is language.