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Summary:
An educator and the school where he works are both on the verge of collapse in this hard-hitting drama from director Tony Kaye. Henry Barthes (Adrien Brody) is a gifted teacher whose psyche has been taking a beating -- he still bears emotional scars from his mother's drunken tirades while he was a child, and he's been forced to look after his grandfather (Louis Zorich) as he ... Full Summary >>

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Cast:
Adrien Brody - (Henry Barthes)
Marcia Gay Harden - (Dearden)
James Caan - (Mr. Charles Seaboldt)
Lucy Liu - (Dr. Doris Parker)
Christina Hendricks - (Ms. Sarah Madison)
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Review:
Politicians and pundits never tire of discussing the shortcomings of America's public-education system, as teachers are either held up as saints or denigrated for being out of touch and protected by a union less interested in students than in saving their own from unemployment. Tony Kaye's Detachment attempts to burn through this rhetoric wit... Continue >>

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