Detachment ( 2011 )

Detachment ( 2011 ) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( DTS 5.1 )
English ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
Italian ( DTS 5.1 )
Italian ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
Italian ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
100 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Music Video
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2011 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Tony Kaye

Written By:
Carl Lund

Actors:
Adrien Brody ..... Henry Barthes
Marcia Gay Harden ..... Principal Carol Dearden
James Caan ..... Mr. Charles Seaboldt
Christina Hendricks ..... Ms. Sarah Madison
Lucy Liu ..... Dr. Doris Parker
Blythe Danner ..... Ms. Perkins
Tim Blake Nelson ..... Mr. Wiatt
William Petersen ..... Mr. Sarge Kepler
Bryan Cranston ..... Mr. Dearden
Sami Gayle ..... Erica
Betty Kaye ..... Meredith
Louis Zorich ..... Grampa
Isiah Whitlock Jr. ..... Mr. Mathias
Chris Papavasiliou ..... Dr. Hart
Kwoade Cross ..... Andy

Synopsis:

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.

Detachment is a chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of a substitute teacher named Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment. A perfect profession for one seeking to hide out in the open. One day Henry arrives at his next assignment. Upon his entry into this particular school, a secret world of emotion is awakened within him by three women. A girl named Meredith in his first period. A fellow teacher Ms. Madison, and a street hooker named Erica, whom Henry has personally granted brief shelter from the streets. Each one of these women, like Henry, are in a life and death struggle to find beauty in a seemingly vicious and loveless world.

A substitute teacher who drifts from classroom to classroom finds a connection to the students and teachers during his latest assignment.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 18 January, 2019.