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Notes on a scandal / Fox Searchlight Pictures and DNA Films presents in association with the UK Film Council and BBC Films ; screenplay by Patrick Marber ; produced by Scott Rudin and Robert Fox ; directed by Richard Eyre.
Annenberg Circulation Desk DVD PR6058.E483 N682 2007
Available
LIBRA DVD 011 785
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- French
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Heller, Zoë--Film adaptations.
- Women teachers--Drama.
- Teacher-student relationships--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Teacher-student relationships.
- Women teachers.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Melodramas (Motion pictures)
- Film adaptations.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Thrillers (Motion pictures)
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Edition:
- Widescreen.
- Place of Publication:
- Beverly Hills, CA : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2007]
- Language Note:
- In English, French or Spanish with optional subtitles in English, French or Spanish.
- Closed-captioned.
- System Details:
- DVD; Dolby digital 5.1surround; Region 1.
- digital
- optical
- surround
- Dolby digital 5.1
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- Barbara is a cynical schoolteacher who is close to retirement. Her only means of taking the edge off her desperate loneliness is writing in her journal. Sheba is a younger, attractive woman, who joins the faculty as an art teacher. Barbara watches her from afar and has nothing but caustic things to say in her diary. Barbara finds herself reaching out to Sheba. Sheba responds by inviting her to dinner at her house to meet Sheba's lecturer husband and their two children. Later, when Barbara discovers that Sheba is having a sexual relationship with a 15-year old student, Barbara realizes that knowledge of this secret gives her power over Sheba which she can use for her own purposes. Sheba becomes uneasy with Barbara's friendship. 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. Sheba 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.
- Participant:
- Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Bill Nighy.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Chris Menges ; editors, John Bloom, Antonia Van Drimmelen ; music, Philip Glass.
- Notes:
- Aspect ratio 1.85:1.
- Based on the book by Zoe Heller.
- Originally released in 2006.
- Special features: commentary by director Richard Eyre; Notes on a scandal: the story of two obsessions featurette; behind the scenes; conversation with Cate Blanchett and Bill Nighy, in character with Cate Blanchett featurette; webisodes.
- OCLC:
- 83599793
- Publisher Number:
- 024543438915
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