Detachment

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2012-02-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

98 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (50904 Reviews)

Director:

Tony Kaye

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Adrien Brody Marcia Gay Harden James Caan Christina Hendricks

Writer:

Carl Lund

Fullplot:

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.

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