This movie was unintentionally hilarious. All the bad movie cliches you can think of - they're here. Lots of LOLs.
15 Reviews
Hilarious
ladybananas6 September 2019
not bad, first half was good.
holograf4 March 2019
It held my attention for the first two thirds or so, then it just got sideways with the typical "main character solving the mystery/crime herself rather than calling the cops" thing. eric roberts was really good in it, they should've had more of his character in the story.
A very ragged script
burgerman9314 March 2024
I've mentioned in other reviews how movies with student/teacher intimate relationships are uninteresting and overdone. This one is no exception and the story is predictable, right down to the main character not alerting law enforcement when she finds out damning information about this student.
I really love how the doors to this school are wide opened at night time and that there's no security guard or cameras to catch any mischievous behavior. And this vice principal must be the biggest idiot to just let his suspicions about this teacher slide.
I don't mind a movie that can make me laugh, despite how poorly constructed the dialogue is. In that sense, bravo Lifetime.
I really love how the doors to this school are wide opened at night time and that there's no security guard or cameras to catch any mischievous behavior. And this vice principal must be the biggest idiot to just let his suspicions about this teacher slide.
I don't mind a movie that can make me laugh, despite how poorly constructed the dialogue is. In that sense, bravo Lifetime.
Meh
zacknnoho6 January 2019
Very predictable script and the actors clearly look like they're acting. Except Roberts who usually does a pretty good job. But how does Vivica Fox keep getting work!?? Her plastic face and stiff acting is unwatchable. She keeps playing the same character in everything; some tough boss behind a desk with a little bit of a soft side and a face that won't show emotion.
The title should be changed to "The Wrong Actors"
vincecartelli13 January 2019
My girlfriend forced me to watch this with her. She now owes me - big time. Could be some of the worst acting ever, even by Lifetime's standards. I've seen better acting at my second grader's Christmas play. Whoever did the casting should "never work in this town again"...The ENTIRE cast was horrible. To think: these actors auditioned and (presumably) more than one person said, "Nailed it! You've got the part!" I've angrily scratched my head so much thinking about how that could have possibly happened that I made a hole in my skull and the pieces of my brain that got fried watching this garbage just fell on the floor.
Frisky English teacher
bkoganbing13 September 2019
Jessica Morris who has to start teaching the next day high school English as the
fall semester starts had a spat with boyfriend artist Jason Shane Scott. So she's
feeling frisky and picks up Tom Cruise lookalike Philip McElroy. I mean the Tom
Cruise we knew back in Risky Business.
The next day she discovers he's in her class and that starts all kinds of trouble. Of course McElroy has some issues, in his case issues of abandonment as you'll see in the film.
I hope Tom Cruise sees how much McElroy resembles and they're cast as father and son.
Otherwise put this one in the exploitive trash column.
The next day she discovers he's in her class and that starts all kinds of trouble. Of course McElroy has some issues, in his case issues of abandonment as you'll see in the film.
I hope Tom Cruise sees how much McElroy resembles and they're cast as father and son.
Otherwise put this one in the exploitive trash column.
Good B Grade Film
jonsid5711 February 2023
Warning: Spoilers
This was an enjoyable B grade film like The Boy Next Door and The Crush . Jessica Morris plays Charlotte a high school teacher and writer who has an affair with a young man Chris .(played brilliantly by Philip McElroy) It turns out that Chris is also her student . Chris has a major crush on Charlotte and begins to stalk her making her life a living hell . Chris is a disturbed individual with a past.
Chris pretends to be an art buyer to meet Charlottes fiancé Scott and also meets up with one of Charlottes female friends . Eric Roberts puts in a good performance as a Vice Principal.
The film does follow a predictable path but is still entertaining.
Chris pretends to be an art buyer to meet Charlottes fiancé Scott and also meets up with one of Charlottes female friends . Eric Roberts puts in a good performance as a Vice Principal.
The film does follow a predictable path but is still entertaining.
Great story
NatashaBali7 October 2019
1hr and 30mins you'll never get back!!
jayfield-018944 February 2021
Terrible script, a plain glass window is less transparent than the plot, the acting is wooden (except for Eric Roberts. I guess he needed the money). The characters are straight-up dumb. Basically, the best part of this train wreck of a film are the closing credits.
Good for this "Perfect" series
phd_travel8 January 2019
Surprisingly this one is quite enjoyable and plausible. With all the student teacher liaisons recently it's timely. The story is a teacher sleeps with a younger guy she meets in a bar. Unknown to her he turns out to be her new student.
She ought to have known from the creepy smile. Jessica Morris is the teacher. Eric Roberts and Vivica Fox are supporting characters.
Things unfold quite plausible without getting too ridiculous like some of these TV Thrillers.
Worth a watch.
Things unfold quite plausible without getting too ridiculous like some of these TV Thrillers.
Worth a watch.
Just mind boggling nonsense
jasmineayouby6 September 2023
It was so chaotic, I couldn't stop watching as I debated on quitting during the first 15 minutes. What a JOKE, so cliche with the most ridiculous dialogue and plot. What an awful unlikeable cast, no one knew how to act, it was absolutely horrendous. As a teacher, I saw how ridiculous those admin conversations about the leaked video were, how unrealistic. It just kept getting worse and worse by the minute. So I continued to watch, daring the movie to outdo itself and by any chance get even worse and without a doubt, it continued to amaze me. I sat there with several mosquito bites (I'm allergic) that made it difficult to move and I had nothing else to do as I could barely walk away to turn if off. It was like slow torturous death, 30 minutes in, I accepted that I would finish the movie, perhaps how painful it was to watch might've made me bites seem less painful. It worked, so I gave it 1 star.
The scene on the desk was a little too much on her part, could it have been filmed less of her legs in fetal position? Yes I think so. Yikes. So cringey and awkward to watch.
Also the scene where she goes to his old school and asks for history, "I don't know YOU, but we're busy around here." It killed me. I'll take 10 mosquito bites over this any day.
The scene on the desk was a little too much on her part, could it have been filmed less of her legs in fetal position? Yes I think so. Yikes. So cringey and awkward to watch.
Also the scene where she goes to his old school and asks for history, "I don't know YOU, but we're busy around here." It killed me. I'll take 10 mosquito bites over this any day.
Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte!!!
lavatch14 October 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Miss Charlotte Hanson is a high school English teacher who is not overly engaged with her work. She is sluggish in submitting her fall semester paperwork to her principal, and she describes her teaching of literature as "droning on about dead writers." In teaching Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," Miss Hanson's question for the students is, "Why does Tybalt fight the Montagues?" Answer: "Because he's a Capulet and hates them!"
Rather than challenge her students, Miss Hanson caves into them, allowing them to watch a video version of the play along with discussions of each of the five acts. This decision will come back to haunt her when one of her students decides to insert compromising video footage into the class members' streaming devices.
The student's name is Chris Williams, a pathological liar and murderer with a demented fixation on blonde teachers resembling Miss Hanson. Already, Miss Martin and Miss Beth Singer are teachers who have been dispatched by Chris. Prior to the fall semester, Chris lies about his age and seduces Miss Hanson. He then proceeds to harass and terrorize her and, as well as other soul that gets in his psychotic way. When he murders the kind Vice-Principal who harbors suspicions about him, Chris makes the administrator's death look like a suicide.
In addition to her teaching, Miss Hanson is an aspiring writer of a romance novel. She goes out of her way to have a fling with young Chris to be "inspired" in her novel and to get over her writer's block. As it turns out, her poor judgment results in a local scandal for which she could lose her job.
But the little experiment does lead to a new concept for her novel, which turns into "My Deadly Student." On the dust jacket of the book is the image of an apple from which someone has taken a large bite. In her own life, Charlotte had taken a bite of the apple exactly like Eve. The viewer of this well-crafted film must wait to the final scene to learn who is ultimately expelled from the classroom and the Garden of Eden.
Rather than challenge her students, Miss Hanson caves into them, allowing them to watch a video version of the play along with discussions of each of the five acts. This decision will come back to haunt her when one of her students decides to insert compromising video footage into the class members' streaming devices.
The student's name is Chris Williams, a pathological liar and murderer with a demented fixation on blonde teachers resembling Miss Hanson. Already, Miss Martin and Miss Beth Singer are teachers who have been dispatched by Chris. Prior to the fall semester, Chris lies about his age and seduces Miss Hanson. He then proceeds to harass and terrorize her and, as well as other soul that gets in his psychotic way. When he murders the kind Vice-Principal who harbors suspicions about him, Chris makes the administrator's death look like a suicide.
In addition to her teaching, Miss Hanson is an aspiring writer of a romance novel. She goes out of her way to have a fling with young Chris to be "inspired" in her novel and to get over her writer's block. As it turns out, her poor judgment results in a local scandal for which she could lose her job.
But the little experiment does lead to a new concept for her novel, which turns into "My Deadly Student." On the dust jacket of the book is the image of an apple from which someone has taken a large bite. In her own life, Charlotte had taken a bite of the apple exactly like Eve. The viewer of this well-crafted film must wait to the final scene to learn who is ultimately expelled from the classroom and the Garden of Eden.
McElroy shines in better-than-average Lifetime thriller
mgconlan-15 March 2019
The latest Lifetime movie, "The Wrong Teacher," was billed as a "premiere" even though the date for it on imdb.com was 2018, not 2019, and it already had a review on imdb.com. Directed by David DeCoteau, working from a script by Robert Dean Klein, "The Wrong Teacher" might more accurately have been called "The Wrong Student," since it begins with the titular teacher visiting the City Lights Bookstore (which I found jarring since the only real bookstore I know of with that name is the legendary one in San Francisco, and the extreme long-shots DeCoteau gave to establish his city's geography were of an unending flatness, obviously not the terrain of famously hilly San Francisco!). Her name is Charlotte Hanson (Jessica Morris), and she's currently on the outs with her independent photographer boyfriend Scott (Jason-Shane Scott). She teaches English literature to seniors at Roosevelt High School and in her spare time she's trying to write a romance novel about a young widow in love with an older man, but she's blocked on it. So she goes to City Lights one night and there meets Chris Williams (Philip McElroy, a darkly handsome young man whose great looks and skillful acting should make him a future star).
She's impressed that someone that young is actually hanging around a physical bookstore instead of either not reading at all or ordering everything from amazon.com. She's also turned on by him, and they go out drinking at a bar called Blue (which seems to be the only bar in the entire city, though that's obviously because it was the only set the production company, Hybrid LLC, could afford to build) and then end up having sex in - of all places - her classroom at the high school. Then school starts the next day and Charlotte is shocked that her previous night's kinky paramour is also one of her new students. He assures her that he's just turned 18 and therefore at least she isn't in danger of being prosecuted for statutory rape, but even though she didn't know she was getting it on with one of her students when it happened, she's still liable to be fired and disgraced. Chris demands more from her, and when she makes it clear that she isn't going to have sex with him again he seeks his revenge.
"The Wrong Teacher" is actually a better-than-average Lifetime movie, skillfully directed by DeCoteau from an unusually complex and ambiguous script by Klein, and driven by an utterly haunting performance from Philip McElroy. Lifetime has churned out enough of these superficially charming psychos by now that the template for them has become well worn, but rarely has one caught both the surface appeal and the deep-seated psychopathology of one of these characters as well as McElroy has. I can only hope there are enough casting directors at major studios who watch Lifetime movies so they can give this quite compelling (as well as very hot-looking!) actor the opportunities he deserves.
She's impressed that someone that young is actually hanging around a physical bookstore instead of either not reading at all or ordering everything from amazon.com. She's also turned on by him, and they go out drinking at a bar called Blue (which seems to be the only bar in the entire city, though that's obviously because it was the only set the production company, Hybrid LLC, could afford to build) and then end up having sex in - of all places - her classroom at the high school. Then school starts the next day and Charlotte is shocked that her previous night's kinky paramour is also one of her new students. He assures her that he's just turned 18 and therefore at least she isn't in danger of being prosecuted for statutory rape, but even though she didn't know she was getting it on with one of her students when it happened, she's still liable to be fired and disgraced. Chris demands more from her, and when she makes it clear that she isn't going to have sex with him again he seeks his revenge.
"The Wrong Teacher" is actually a better-than-average Lifetime movie, skillfully directed by DeCoteau from an unusually complex and ambiguous script by Klein, and driven by an utterly haunting performance from Philip McElroy. Lifetime has churned out enough of these superficially charming psychos by now that the template for them has become well worn, but rarely has one caught both the surface appeal and the deep-seated psychopathology of one of these characters as well as McElroy has. I can only hope there are enough casting directors at major studios who watch Lifetime movies so they can give this quite compelling (as well as very hot-looking!) actor the opportunities he deserves.
Awesome
waitandhope2 April 2020
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