- Release Date: 1999
- Runtime: 96 min
- Genre: Comedy, Thriller
- Starring: Helen Mirren, Katie Holmes, Jeffrey Tambor, Barry Watson ... see all
- Director: Kevin Williamson
- Plot: Leanne is salutatorian when she needs to be valedictorian to get her scholarship to Harvard. The only class she is worse than the leader in is history, taught by Mrs.... Read more
User Reviews
Caught between its aims?
Jun 12, 2008
RockySullivansRedemption - imdb.com
Jun 12, 2008RockySullivansRedemption - imdb.com
3 students get more than they bargained for when a theft of a test results paper leads to a deadly battle of wills with their kidnapped teacher, Mrs. Tingle. It seems to me that director and writer, Kevin Wiliamson, got confused... Full review
Dramatic Thriller
May 11, 2008
nancyfaris1993 - yahoo.com
May 11, 2008nancyfaris1993 - yahoo.com
Best movie ever it is like Disturbia but way better the actors really know how to act the movie makes you stay in your seat until its done!... Full review
Stupid Students Learn Nothing from the Great Ms. Mirren
Jan 29, 2008
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Jan 29, 2008The_Flesh_Eating_Vegan - imdb.com
I was zapping until I saw Ms. Mirren's elegant face. Damn, this woman's hot! I think I missed about the first half hour but seeing the utter crap that this film is, I certainly haven't missed much. This is just... Full review
Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999)
Sep 09, 2007
brucewayne_18 - yahoo.com
Sep 09, 2007brucewayne_18 - yahoo.com
I love that movie. I actually thought it would be an okay movie at best so I was very surprised to see how good it really is (i remembered also how much bad critics that movie got when it got out).... Full review
Playing with fire.
Aug 26, 2007
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Aug 26, 2007lost-in-limbo - imdb.com
History teacher Mrs Tingle seems to have it in for student Leigh Ann Watson, who has her heart on achieving a writing school scholarship. She receives another low grade from Tingle, which doesn't help. When one of her classmates Luke... Full review
This movie is CRAP!
Nov 12, 2006
chargerfan311 - yahoo.com
Nov 12, 2006chargerfan311 - yahoo.com
I'd rather watch grass grow than watch this movie. Sometimes I wonder why I let people subject me to S*** like this. Who knows? Anyway, the movie sucked total donkey balls. nuff said!... Full review
A Terrible Film with a Horrible Story
Aug 14, 2006
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Aug 14, 2006shyremare21 - yahoo.com
What were they thinking!?! I couldn't stand this film. There was nothing good about it. The acting was dry, the story was awful, and the direction was lacking. I thought all of the characters were annoying. Mrs. Tingle was the worst,... Full review
Who the **** is the hero?
Jul 28, 2006
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Jul 28, 2006endymionng - imdb.com
A cheap bizarre 80'-like Hughes-movie for the nineties without humor, heart and morals... Mirren and Marisa Coughlan (asuming she does her own voice-work, which I'm not quite certain of...) does some decent acting, but the rest of the cast is... Full review
good!
Jul 05, 2006
sporty657 - yahoo.com
Jul 05, 2006sporty657 - yahoo.com
This movie was funny and interesting! I loved it. It is a great movie for people of all ages, maybe not all ages but you know what I mean.... Full review
Teaching Ms. Tingle
Jun 21, 2006
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Jun 21, 2006commerfordq - yahoo.com
This movie was OK i used to like it when i was younger but i watched it the other day and it really wasnt that good. Its a horrible story line but overall fair so it gets a C... Full review
Critics Reviews
| Jan 04, 2000DVD Talk
One of the more mean spirited movies I've seen in a while Teaching Mrs. Tingle fails as both a comedy and thriller and ends up being sensely and aimlessly mean.
Even though they are not great works of cinema, I have enjoyed some of Kevin Williamson previous films (especially his sharp scripts for the Scream series).
... Full Review
| Aug 21, 1999The Movie Boy
If the movie is never necessarily boring, it also is rarely interesting, and almost everything that occurs in the film (which, let's face it, isn't much
Veteran British actress Helen Mirren, as the cruel Mrs. Tingle, is far more astonishing and scene-stealing than she has any right to be, and raises this otherwise tepid film up a notch so that it could be classified as an "OK" film, rather than a downright bad one.
... Full Review
| Aug 21, 1999Ain't It Cool Movie Reviews
For me, the first 2/3rds of the film is pretty damn strong...
Helen Mirren is wonderful as this character.
Her best friend, played by Marisa Coughlan, is my favorite teen character in the film.
Katie Holmes' character is just a selfish bad loser.
... Full Review
| Aug 20, 1999theglobeandmail.com
The absurd plot lumbers to its silly conclusion....In fact, the picture's funniest sight doubles as a sad spectacle:....Weaned on TV series and telefilms, they're conditioned to chow down on any hunk of flat dialogue....watching the talented Helen Mirren, who somehow wandered into the title role, trying to sink those vaunted acting chops into a cardboard meanie..... ... Full Review
| Aug 20, 1999Salon
Coughlan's joyful performance is one of the film's few unalloyed delights.....sloppily directed movie, full of clashing tones and undigested bits of superior films.....But for my money, the film hints at a far more interesting direction when it becomes clear....This is just one of the many ways "Teaching Mrs. Tingle" feels like a confused first draft by a talented young writer.....Williamson respects the desires of his teenage audience.... ... Full Review
News
TEACHING MRS TINGLE
urbancinefile.com.au –
2008-09-11
"This black teen comedy is notable as the first movie directed by star screenwriter Kevin Williamson. Overall, it's a bit forced and uneven it starts off with a lot of verve and then runs out of steam midway but is... ... Full Article
Finally! Can we move on now?
nationalpost.com –
2006-11-20
Finally! Can we move on now?
canada.com –
2006-11-20
It's done.TomKat 's unholy union has been granted the official seal of approval from planet Xenu.Coincidentally, thanks to a Fox programming director's deliciously warped sense of humour, the network ran "Teaching Mrs. ... Full Article
Here we are in late August, and the exciting new piece of pop-culture entertainment I've been aching to tell you about is... nonexistent. You know what I mean. ... Full Article
CD: Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999)
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1999-09-07

Helen Mirren in Teaching Mrs. Tingle
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