Fatal lessons
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German title | Fatal lessons |
Original title | Fatal Lessons: The Good Teacher |
Country of production | USA , Canada |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 2004 |
length | 91 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 16 |
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Director | Michael M. Scott |
script | Casey T. Mitchell |
production | Harvey Kahn |
music | Tim Jones |
camera | Adam Sliwinski |
cut | Jim Miley |
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Fatal Lessons (alternative title: Alphabet des Schreckens ; original title: Fatal Lessons: The Good Teacher ) is an American - Canadian thriller from 2004 . Directed by Michael M. Scott and written by Casey T. Mitchell .
action
Teacher Victoria Paige was abused as a child. After her lover calls himself her daddy , she injects him with curare and puts his paralyzed body in the bathtub, in which she runs water. Before he dies, she mocks him by showing him an antidote and asking if he would like to take it.
Paige is hired by the Stephens family to tutor their children . Samantha Stephens considers her her friend. She thinks her previous best friend Jane Robson's reservations are expressions of jealousy.
Paige tries to instill suspicion between the couple by hiding Nick Stephens' watch and a book, among other things. She plans to poison Samantha Stephens, which she finds out. Samantha breaks into Paige and steals a manuscript in which the previously committed and the planned murders were discussed. She is attacked by Paige, who falls on her own syringe with poison during the fight, triggering an injection . Paige survives and is taken away by an ambulance in the last scene.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was an "average (television) crime thriller that conjured up once more the horror" that penetrates "through the foreign" . He thus "subliminally strengthens American isolationism, especially with regard to the universally invoked family as the nucleus of patriotism" .
TV Movie magazine wrote that the psychological thriller was "neat, but seen many times" .
backgrounds
The film was shot in Vancouver . Its production amounted to an estimated 1.5 million US dollars .
Web links
- Fatal Lessons in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Fatal Lessons at rotten tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Fatal Lessons in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on September 2, 2008
- ↑ TV Movie ( Memento of the original from July 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 2, 2008
- ^ Filming locations for Fatal Lessons: The Good Teacher , accessed September 2, 2008
- ↑ Box office / business for Fatal Lessons: The Good Teacher , accessed September 2, 2008