The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

1969 · 116 min · EN · PG · 6.9 (92 votes)

Dir. Ronald Neame · Starring Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin, Celia Johnson, Gordon Jackson, Diane Grayson · Music Rod McKuen

“In the surprising world of Jean Brodie, there were two men and four girls.”

Drama

A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12-year-old charges with her over-romanticized worldview.

VIBE

A bittersweet, period-piece character study. It feels like a wistful look back at a formative, yet ultimately tragic, influence. The atmosphere is steeped in a specific time and place, with a quiet intensity that lingers.

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