The Perfect Teacher (2010 TV Movie) User Reviews

Not bad, but a little bit too ridiculous

[dashielle89-425-132181 · 4/10 · 5 November 2012]

So the premise of the movie, although unoriginal, was entertaining enough. An unstable girl in high school becomes obsessed with her hot new math teacher/volley ball coach and will do anything to try to get him. I didn't bored while watching it and the acting wasn't bad for a TV movie, I have seen much worse.

However I think this movie's main weakness is it's unbelievability. The teacher is made out to be an innocent victim of this girl's obsession, while in reality he was encouraging the behavior and probably breaking many school policies and maybe laws. Most schools, regardless of the state's laws, do not let teachers socialize with students individually outside of school, but this man found it acceptable for her to pick up his daughter and the three of them go out together, come to his house, go to his ex-wife's funeral, etc. He would have coffee with her, flirt with her, talk about personal relationships, and allow her to call his cell phone on a regular basis, but when she starts to outright say she want them to be together, he seems appalled and thinks she is the one who is totally out of line. He should have been reported (or reported her) in the beginning, or if not had his teaching license revoked and been terminated. I just seems most of the characters were completely incapable of making rational or realistic decisions.

But even though most people have seen this story before and it does have some issues, I would say it's still worth watching once.

Her secret love's no secret any more

[sol1218 · 6/10 · 9 September 2011]

***SPOILERS*** As soon as 17 year Devon Burkes, Megan Park, laid her eyes on the handsome as well as married new mathematics teacher Jim Wilkes, David Charvet, at Van Westerly High School she planned to make him her secret love. Leaving no stone unturned to get Wilkes to have an affair with her the very obsessed with lust for Wilkes Devon even lost her grip of reality in not being able to distinguish her fantasies from the real world in getting Wilks to accept her as his secret love. Even though that secret, on Devon's part, was no secret at all in how Devon was always bragging to her friends what a wild and crazy love affair she and Wilkes were supposedly having.

Wilkes for his part did his best to get the love addicted Devon to realize that he wasn't interested in her sexually in that he's marries and, with his marriage now on the rocks, has a girlfriend Rachel,Boti Bliss, on the side. There's also Wilkes' 7 years old daughter, the apple of his eye, Annique, Keeua Lynk, who his estranged wife Mrissa, Judih Baribeau,is planning to take with her to San Diego, some 3,000 miles away.Mrissa also has Wilkes willing to come along with her to patch things up in their marriage.

Devon almost driven insane in her attempt to hold on to Wilkes gets to get on to Wilkes', who's the coach, high school volley ball team as his assistant. This leads to Devon having access to Wilkes as well as his wife's personal papers as well as credit cards.Devon uses Wilkes credit card to buy herself sexy and skimpy clothes in order to frame him, in making it look like he bought them for her, in something she's got cooked up for him in the very near future. The final shoe to fall is when Devon knowing that Mrissa is a jogging freak she goes to Plan I by ambushing her with her SUV while Mrissa is out jogging killing her in a hit and run non accident.

It takes a a while for Wilkes to realize what his "secret love" Devon Burkes is really up to which has her go to Plan II in setting up the by now shattered teacher in a fake statuary rape rap with her, not the totally innocent Jim Wilkes, as the victim!

***SPOILERS*** With Wilkes finally getting enough evidence to prove that Devon is in fact a murderous nut case she goes to Plan III in her deranged efforts to get Wilkes to give into her demands by kidnapping his daughter Annique and holding her hostage until Wilkes says yes to her proposal to be her lover! Going along with Devon's insane plan in order to get little Annique back Wilkes,finally turning the tables on her, sets Devon up by getting her to confess to her crimes on his cell phone with the police listening in. In the end with both Wilkes and Annique back again and him being taken of the nation wide sexual predator list Davon is still at it in now trying to get the court appointed psychiatrist Dr. Erickson,Nick Baillie, to have an affair with her! In him being a certified psychiatrist and knowing Devon's background Dr. Erickson is smart enough to fall for Devon's act.

Homework Wrecker

[wes-connors · 5/10 · 29 February 2012]

Showing off legs up to there, blonde high school student Megan Park (as Devon Burkes) wants to seduce her new trigonometry teacher. He's handsome David Charvet (as Jim Wilkes), a former TV "Baywatch" lifeguard who has definitely kept himself in shape. Try as she might, Ms. Park is unable to get Mr. Charvet to unzip. Charvet likes undressing with Boti Bliss (as Rachel). When Charvet's ex says she's moving to San Diego with their cute little daughter Keeva Lynk (as Annique), Park decides she must make a drastic decision to keep her sexy teacher in town. This "Lifetime" TV-movie is a highly derivative re-telling of a timeless tale.

***** The Perfect Teacher (9/12/10) Jim Donovan ~ Megan Park, David Charvet, Boti Bliss, Keeva Lynk

Decent movie, but hasn't the kind of story been seen before??

[Jurry30 · 3/10 · 18 September 2011]

I just watched this film on Lifetime & I could already predict everything about it. The basic synopsis is a teenage girl falls for her teacher from school & after a while becomes obsessed with him & goes to enormous measures to make him hers. Megan Park does a pretty good job at playing the alluring villain, but like I said, it's been done before. This film was so much like The Crush (the film with Alicia Silverstone from 1993) that it lacked very little surprises or suspense & very well could have been called The Crush 2. But, as I said before, this film, even though predictable, is still rather enjoyable with some pretty good acting & is a good way to waste a couple hours in front of the TV, just don't expect very many surprises in this Made for TV thriller.

Bad all the way through

[geoffox-766-418467 · 9 February 2011]

Let me start off by saying the script was so uneven and impractical that I had a hard time believing any of it. That a teacher (coach) with training could not see through the psycho's motivations is beyond me. She was that obvious. That a student be allowed to wear the clothes she almost wore (they were that awful, revealing and lewd). That the police were not on top of the hit and run car that killed the ex wife. That they did not check the bimbo out who claimed she was raped at a hospital for evidence and DNA. Isn't that the first thing done before they take the word of a teeny bop-per? I could go on with all the inadequacies in this story. But adding to that is the horrible performance of Megan Park, the so called teenager. (She looked in her late 20s) Wearing clothes that did nothing but point out her physical shortcomings. Flat chested and hips that were wider than her shoulders. Wearing black showed this up to the hilt. Even a padded bra and corset still made her flat chested. Lip gloss, too much eye makeup and long clumpy legs in shoes that did not flatter her. Her acting was just as bad. Phony and not very interesting. David Charvet had more to do and did it well. He is a good actor and a shame he's doing this dreadful film. He did the best he could. And you could see he was uncomfortable with the bimbo. Boti Bliss did what she could as well in a small unrewarding role. Amanda Tlson had more screen time and did her best and looked like a teenager. Christine Conradt wrote this drivel and Jim Donovan spent too much time filming the leading lady. She was in almost every scene and this is what killed the movie in this viewer's eyes.

Daddy, Please Don't Leave....

[rmax304823 · 3/10 · 29 October 2013]

This piece of meretricious garbage is the spawn of ten thousand other movies about the forbidden relationship between high school girls and attractive older men. Sometimes the girl is the victim. Here, it's the other way round; the succulent young blond is Megan Park, and the thirty-six year old trigonometry teacher and girls' volleyball coach, David Charvet, is the victim of her erotomania.

Park certainly is a dish. She has long, wavy tresses, and oversize pearly incisors. One imagines her canines are long and sharp, like a predatory tiger's. She throws herself all over Charvet, at school and elsewhere, insinuating her toothsome presence into his personal life, leaning over his desk so he is sure to inhale her musk, cuddling up to Charvet's little daughter, running over Charvet's ex wife.

Park has lovely long legs, their fearful symmetry enhanced by the tiny skirts and spike heels that all high school girls wear. She has a marked thigh gap too. I understand that's desirable. All that's needed is the barbed wire tattoo around her neck that would cause any normal man to throw himself at her feet and grovel. The monumentally stupid Charvet himself has a prominent tattoo, a dozen Chinese ideograms on his inner forearm, but they're not a patch on a barbed wire tattoo for erotic arousal.

Well, frankly, I found Megan's character revolting in the extreme, especially that business of murdering Charvet's ex wife. If it had been my ex wife I might have felt differently but there was simply no excuse for this deliberate act of mayhem. Megan might have exculpated herself by just removing her hampering outer garments somewhere along the line and giving the viewer a glimpse of those hidden treasures, but no.

I don't even like her name. The character's name is Devon, pronounced like the English shire. I don't like it. I don't like her real name either -- Megan. Megan, Reagan, Jillian, Jennifer. What happened to sturdy old post-and-lintel names like Linda and Barbara and Hepzibah and Hatshepsut? Never watch a movie with a character named Devon in it.

Here's the director at work. Charvet and Megan are shopping in a clothing store. Charvet's inamorata enters and needs to talk to Charvet alone, so Megan wanders off a few feet, pretends to be thumbing through a rack of dresses, and keeps an eye on them without wanting them to know she's doing so. Here's how she does it. She stands still and glares balefully at the pair. Is that how you would secretly spy on someone? It's not how I would do it. I'd pretend to be going through the items on the rack and glance up from time to time to see what's cooking. But Megan does everything to attract attention to herself except play "The Flight of the Bumblebee" on a kazoo.

Do high school girls really have volleyball coaches? I wonder how you can get a job like that if you have neither interest in or talent for any sports.

One psychotic crush

[bkoganbing · 2/10 · 25 December 2018]

The Perfect Teacher casts David Charvet formerly of Baywatch who still looks like he could be out on the beach as a high school math teacher and coach of the girls' volleyball team. It is there that he meets up with Megan Park one very beautiful and very psychotic girl who will do anything in her warped mind to be with him.

I think Charvet must be some kind of saint to have avoided the voluptuous Park. After she reveals a bit of the psychotic side to her it becomes real easy to avoid that kind of temptation.

Of course this is the kind of stuff that the Lifetime cable network markets. It's trash, high gloss trash but trash.

Perfect Teacher Adds Up to Trig or Tricks ***1/2

[edwagreen · 9/10 · 4 April 2011]

The old problem of the young teacher and the student having a crush on him is again depicted by this 2010 film. Of course, our student has more than a crush on the teacher. It's an infatuation coupled with an imagination beyond belief. You know that such thoughts will invariably lead to mayhem and that's exactly what happens.

Megan Park gives a compelling performance as the student whose mind plays tricks on her with her infatuation for the new trigonometry teacher who also doubles as a girls' sports coach. The teacher doesn't see through this because he has gone through a divorce and has built a relationship with another teacher that is threatening to come apart.

David Chalvet's voice reminded me of the late Johnny Ray. He really lacked the maturity for the part and he appeared so vulnerable to Park's mesmerizing thoughts.

The film again shows that you're the teacher and not the friend to a student. Boundaries must be established right away between younger teachers and high school students. You can only go so far and then you had better venture backwards.

The ending points to the facts that these disturbed students are really living in a forever fantasy world. It just moves on to the next victim.

PSYCOPATHY!

[mverdibello · 9/10 · 16 September 2018]

Why this movie is so low rated, because it describes PERFECTLY the dangers of Psycopathy!

"A Nasty Skeeze"

[lavatch · 8/10 · 3 November 2019]

In an early scene in "The Perfect Teacher," the high school student Devon (Dev) Burkes refers to her fellow student named Apple as "a nasty skeeze." There may have been a certain degree of self-projection in that remark. But while Dev tries to become the apple of her math teacher's eyes, it turns out that Apple herself is one of the unsung heroines of this psychological melodrama.

Jim Wilkes begins his position at Van Westerly High School in Pennsylvania as a dual instructor of mathematics and the girls' volleyball coach. Dev, who is in Mr. Wilkes's trigonometry class, instantly falls for her teacher, and her crush turns into a psychotic obsession. Along the way, Dev confides in her best friend Kinsey (Kins) about the depth her infatuation. Kins will also play a fateful role in the unraveling of the tragic events that unfold.

The unchecked emotions of Dev escalate to the degree that she murders Marissa Wilkes, the ex-wife of Mr. Wilkes, who is planning on moving to San Diego. In order to remain connected to his beloved daughter, Annique, Mr. Wilkes decides to move to California. To prevent the move, Dev uses her SUV to run over Marissa while she is out for a jog.

One of the imaginative cinematic touches of the filmmakers is to make use of fantasy sequences where Dev is imagining an ideal relationship with Mr. Wilkes. One of those clever scenes is to imagine Mr. Wilkes getting on his knee and proposing marriage to her in a sushi bar with the volleyball squad cheering on the happily engaged pair. An even more outlandish episode is the scene after Marissa's funeral, where Dev imagines consummating her relationship with Mr. Wilkes on the couch of his home! The filmmakers save an even more imaginative scene for the film's final moment that evolves visually in the twisted mind of Dev Burkes.

The actress playing the role of Dev deserves kudos for making her character as credible as she appeared on screen. In what could have been a predictably over-the-top vamp, the performer made use of understatement and carefully motivated all of her character's actions. Due to the callousness of Dev's father, Dev's long-suffering mother had taken her own life. The trauma from that unspeakable loss clearly impacted Dev's thinking, as apparent in every moment that drew her to her perfect teacher in the failed quest for peace, self-worth, and redemption.

Megan Park is good as a student obsessed with teacher

[phd_travel · 8/10 · 3 April 2019]

The sweet wholesome Megan Park of Secret Life makes a good wacko obsessed with her new teacher played by David Charvet. He's divorced and going through a crisis about moving to be with his ex wife's new job. Things progress plausibly and the wacko stuff she does is possible. Liked way the fantasy and the reality are shown. One of the better obsession type Lifetime thrillers.

Awesome movie

[bellapug · 10/10 · 7 August 2015]

watched this movie a few years back and loved it, forgot about it till now, but i will be watching it again. amazing story line, well made. keeps the viewer on the edge of their seat, the twist and turns in this movie are exactly like a roller coaster, i saw this movie in 2011, and i was 13 at the time, maybe a little too young too watch the movie at some parts, but i still loved it. i was never bored during it, like some movies where you want too turn it off, which has happened before. but i think yes, i would see this movie over and over and it by far one of my favourite movies, right beside sixteen candles. and i love the main characters name. Devon i think is how you spell it.

think you can really resist her?

[gabbyJ_1 · 10/10 · 10 December 2010]

*hint minor spoilers First I'd like to say intercourse with a minor is totally inappropriate. And also, very illegal. It can get you in a heck of a lot of trouble! moving on, I find it hard to believe that this handsome young teacher could resist her this easily, and also that he believes in his total innocence that he didn't lead her on in any way at all.

Because he kind of did. In real life she's not really a minor, she's 24 which is fine, I thought she was really attractive. Reminds me of the crush, she has the same hard to resist beauty as alicia silverstone.

Personally, I found the movie great until the end , when she starts killing people. If you really love someone , you would not want to hurt them, by hurting the things or people that they care about . Like if you truly love someone you want them to be happy, even if it's not with you. But it's for entertainment sakes yes i understand, for suspense she has to be really crazy!! When in truth, in probably does happen in real life. I'm sure a lot of teenage girls find mature older men a catch.

I find it interesting to watch her attempts, because it reality a man couldn't brush her off that easily, and without hurting her emotionally for sure. But you do have to she's a minor! But she's your friend dawg, why is it when she came onto him he didn't even reason with her psh. Hollywood.

But a good movie I found it a good watch great script and acting. Megan Park is a very beautiful and attractive young lady to be remembered for sure!

Sylvie Variant

[ThunderKing6 · 10/10 · 12 March 2022]

This girl triggered me, that means the movie makers did their job.

About: A JB lady Loki that is desperately in love with a grown man. She plays tricks and trouble lurks.

Story: A good mild tense story. Some parts triggered me but that means the producers know what they were doing.

Production: chessy acting that's helped by an affective story. Great visual quality too.

Highlight: Lady Loki playing tricks.

Main Intelligence: 9.

Unworthiness Level: 0

Should you watch this? Yes. Think of "Me Too" then think of this movie. It helps us see that most men have been innocent. Anyways... A great TLC movie one of Thea best. It's simple and to the point and did not require swearing, intense sexuality or violence.

Please watch this movie.

Another LMN movie that had a remake later!

[haroot_azarian · 14 June 2021]

If you've seen Killer Crush (2015) then you'll know what this all about. The difference is in one the psycho killer ends up in a coma and in the other she ends up being arrested and dragged away by cops!