Child's Play

Child's Play

1972 · 100 min · EN · PG · 6.0 (41 votes)
Dir. Sidney Lumet · Starring James Mason, Robert Preston, Beau Bridges, Ron Weyand, Charles White, David Rounds · Music Michael Small

You only lose once.

DramaMysteryThriller

At an exclusive boys' school, a new gym teacher is drawn into a feud between two older instructors, and he discovers that everything at the school is not quite as staid, tranquil and harmless as it seems.

VIBE

A simmering tension pervades this elite boarding school, where repressed desires and simmering resentments bubble beneath a veneer of respectability. It's a slow burn of psychological unease, hinting at darker truths lurking within its hallowed halls.

suspensefulunsettlingclaustrophobicintensesteadyperiod dramapsychological thrillercharacter-drivendeceptionprejudicepower dynamicshidden darkness
boarding schoolschool teacherboys' school
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