Notes on a Scandal

2006, UK

Genres:

Drama

Actors:

Judi Dench		Barbara Covett
Cate Blanchett		Sheba Hart
Tom Georgeson		Ted Mawson
Michael Maloney		Sandy Pabblem
Joanna Scanlan		Sue Hodge
Shaun Parkes		Bill Rumer
Emma Kennedy		Linda
Syreeta Kumar		Gita
Andrew Simpson		Steven Connolly
Philip Davis		Brian Bangs
Wendy Nottingham		Elaine Clifford
Tameka Empson		Antonia Robinson
Leon Skinner		Davis
Bill Nighy		Richard Hart
Juno Temple		Polly Hart

Directors:

Richard Eyre |

Certification:

Brazil:14 | Canada:14A | South Korea:18 | Ireland:16 | Singapore:M18 ... show all

IMDB Rating:

7.70 out of 10 (13123 votes)

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Storyline

Taglines:	1: One Woman's Mistake Is Another's Opportunity... 2: Loneliness can turn one into a monster. 3: One woman's secret is another woman's power. One woman's fear is another woman's weapon. One woman's life is in another woman's hands....
Plot Summary:	Barbara Covett is a veteran and cynical schoolteacher who is close to retirement. She is barely tolerated by her less brilliant and acerbic colleagues who know nothing about her private life which consists mainly of taking care of Portia, her aging cat, and spending countless hours alone. The only means she has found to take the edge off her desperate loneliness is writing in her journal. When Sheba Hart, a younger, attractive woman, joins the faculty as an art teacher, Barbara watches her from afar and has nothing but caustic things to say in her diary about her clothing and her care-free manner. Despite her disdain for this woman, Barbara finds herself reaching out to her. Sheba responds by inviting her to dinner at her house to meet Sheba's lecturer husband, who is twenty years her senior, and their two children, a sexy and rebellious 16-year-old daughter and a younger boy with Downs Syndrome. Instead of opening herself to these people, Barbara immediately sees them as competition to be beaten in the battle for Sheba's attention. Later, when Barbara discovers her new friend in a classroom having sex with Steven, a 15-year-old from the school who has artistic talent; she realizes that knowledge of this secret gives her power over Sheba which she can use for her own purposes. Barbara promises to not tell anyone but insists that the affair must end immediately. Sheba says she will but finds herself drawn back to the boy again and again. Sheba seems uneasy with Barbara's friendship and is appalled when she discovers the older woman might have a sexual interest in her. The tenuous relationship between the two women reaches a crisis point when Barbara's cat is dying and she asks Sheba to go with her to the vet. She chooses to go with her family to see their son in a play instead. In revenge, Barbara sets in motion the scandal that will rock both their lives in ways they never imagined.
Plot Keywords:	gay-interest \| lesbian \| stalker \| teacher-student-relationship \| extramarital-affair \| psychological-drama \| blackmail \| melodrama \| cuckold \| artist \| loneliness \| high-school-teacher \| voyeur \| bitterness \| age-difference \| closeted-lesbian \| lurid \| opportunism \| manipulation \| self-hate ... show all Complete list of certificates: hide gay-interest \| lesbian \| stalker \| teacher-student-relationship \| extramarital-affair \| psychological-drama \| blackmail \| melodrama \| cuckold \| artist \| loneliness \| high-school-teacher \| voyeur \| bitterness \| age-difference \| closeted-lesbian \| lurid \| opportunism \| manipulation \| self-hate \| student \| tense \| voice-over \| sex-with-minor \| secret \| school \| sex-with-teacher \| art-teacher \| high-school-student \| prison \| high-school \| friendship \| adultery \| schoolboy \| family \| lesbian-interest \| mother \| scandal \| cell-phone \| underage-sex \| down-syndrome \| teacher \| london-england \| cat \| homosexuality \| diary \| based-on-novel

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