The read
A Balasaur Score of 52 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 5.8/10, Rotten Tomatoes 46%, Metacritic 42/100. Audiences rate it 16 points higher than critics do. Most of the 4,571 2010s comedy movies in this catalog score higher. Streaming on Prime and Tubi.
Synopsis
Small-town Pennsylvania schoolteacher Linda Sinclair balances her staid home life with an incredible passion for her subject. Then a former star pupil reenters her life after failing as a playwright in New York City. Seeing in his script the inspiration that she has always longed to instill in her students, this dyed-in-the-wool romantic enlists the help of long-suffering drama teacher Carl to mount the work as the high school’s next and riskiest production.
Ratings
Audiences rate it 16 points higher than critics do.
379 audience votes
Key crew
- Stacy CharitonWriter
- Craig ZiskDirector
- Dan CharitonScreenplay
- Rob SimonsenOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Julianne MooreLinda Sinclair
- Michael AngaranoJason Sherwood
- Greg KinnearDr. Tom Sherwood
- Lily CollinsHalle Anderson
- Fiona ShawNarrator
- Norbert Leo ButzVice Principal Phil Pelaski
- Jessica HechtPrincipal Trudie Slocum
- Charlie SaxtonWill
- Nathan LaneCarl Kapinas
- Nikki BlonskySheila Nussbaum
- Erin WilhelmiJoni Gerber
- Remy AuberjonoisBeefy Businessman
