Detachment
Detachment

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- 77/100 based on 93,532 votes
  • Released: 2011
  • Runtime: 98 mins
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  • Studio: Appian Way
  • Genres: Drama

In Director Tony Kaye's Detachment, Academy Award® winner Adrien Brody stars as Henry Barthes, an educator with a true talent to connect with his students. Yet Henry has chosen to bury his gift. By spending his days as a substitute teacher, he conveniently avoids any emotional connections by never staying anywhere long enough to form an attachment to either students or colleagues. When a new assignment places him at a public school where a frustrated, burned-out administrati... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Detachment:

Adrien Brody
Marcia Gay Harden
James Caan
Christina Hendricks
Lucy Liu
Blythe Danner

Full Plot Details

In Director Tony Kaye's Detachment, Academy Award® winner Adrien Brody stars as Henry Barthes, an educator with a true talent to connect with his students. Yet Henry has chosen to bury his gift. By spending his days as a substitute teacher, he conveniently avoids any emotional connections by never staying anywhere long enough to form an attachment to either students or colleagues. When a new assignment places him at a public school where a frustrated, burned-out administration has created an apathetic student body, Henry quickly becomes a role model as a teacher who actually cares about the well-being of these students. In finding an emotional connection to the students but also fellow teachers and a runaway teen, he finds that he's not alone in a life and death struggle to find beauty in a seemingly vicious and loveless world.

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Entertainment Weekly - 9/10 by Owen GleibermanWhen it stays in the classroom, Detachment is a scrappy testament - to the futility of even trying to reach students who are cut off from the possibilities of knowledge, and to the way that our teachers are slowly being driven nuts.
New Yorker - 9/10 by Anthony LaneNobody's idea of "Mr. Holland's Opus," but it winds up in a similar place, more or less.
Film Journal International - 9/10 by Doris ToumarkineEmotionally raw drama conveys the very bad behavior and "detached" states of many in the vortex of a prototypical Long Island public school. Independent filmmaking at its very best and a must-see for teens and their elders.
Spirituality and Practice - 9/10 by Frederic and Mary Ann BrussatA grim but thought-provoking depiction of a failing inner-city high school and a gifted substitute teacher with a big heart.
TheFilmFile.com - 9/10 by Dustin PutmanIt's disturbing, it's uncompromising, it's understandably urgent, and it's absolutely crucial.
Miami Herald - 9/10 by Rene RodriguezThe movie has an undeniable visceral power. It is also a loud, grating wallow in dime-store despair, a cheap and hollow button-puncher.
HeyUGuys - 9/10 by Ashley NorrisIt's a film so well paced with a message so relevant that it deserves an audience bigger than what it got and it deserves more of an emotional impact than will resonant throughout.
Variety - 8/10 by Ronnie ScheibScripter Lund, himself an ex-teacher, delivers a story that lacks nuance, and mixes badly with Kaye's impatient edits, Dutch angles and extreme close-ups.
The Playlist - 8/10 by Cory EverettA bizarre, well intentioned mess, at the very least, Detachment is never dull...even as the film is bad, it's compulsively watchable.
Birmingham Post - 8/10 by Graham YoungDetachment is the sort of film-of-the-week that ought to appeal to anyone who loves movies in the purest sense.

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