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Overview

User Rating:
7.7/10   19,199 votes
Director:
Richard Eyre
Writers (WGA):
Patrick Marber (screenplay)
Zoe Heller (novel)
Release Date:
5 January 2007 (Canada) more
Genre:
Drama more
Tagline:
One Woman's Mistake Is Another's Opportunity... more
Plot:
A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 10 wins & 35 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(13 articles)
Blanchett Pregnant with Third Child (From WENN. 5 November 2007)
Dench: "I Won't Win Best Actress Oscar" (From WENN. 14 February 2007)
User Comments:
Jarring Notes Superbly Performed more

Cast

 (Cast overview, first billed only)

Judi Dench ... Barbara Covett

Cate Blanchett ... Sheba Hart
Tom Georgeson ... Ted Mawson
Michael Maloney ... Sandy Pabblem
Joanna Scanlan ... Sue Hodge
Shaun Parkes ... Bill Rumer
Emma Kennedy ... Linda

Syreeta Kumar ... Gita
Andrew Simpson ... Steven Connolly
Philip Davis ... Brian Bangs (as Phil Davis)
Wendy Nottingham ... Elaine Clifford
Tameka Empson ... Antonia Robinson
Leon Skinner ... Davis

Bill Nighy ... Richard Hart

Juno Temple ... Polly Hart
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Chronique d'un scandale (Canada: French title) (France) [fr]
Escándalo (Argentina) (Venezuela) [es]
Ühe skandaali märkmed (Estonia) [et]
Diario de un escándalo (Spain) [es]
Diario di uno scandalo (Italy) [it]
Imerologio enos skandalou (Greece) [el]
Notas Sobre um Escândalo (Brazil) [pt]
Notatki o skandalu (Poland) [pl]
Paljastavat merkinnät (Finland) [fi]
Skandal (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
Tagebuch eines Skandals (Germany) [de]
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MPAA:
Rated R for language and some aberrant sexual content.
Runtime:
92 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
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SDDS | DTS | Dolby Digital
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Company:
BBC Films more

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Trivia:
When Barbara has had her meeting with the headmaster at which he reveals what he knows about her stalking of Jennifer Dodd, she throws up in a school toilet. In the background, on the wall, is written the graffiti: "Babs Covett = nasty old lezza. I want to lick her mangy twat." more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Brian comes to Barbara's house and they sit at the table, Barbara smokes a cigarette which in one clip has been smoked by a third, but in the next shot of her the cigarette looks like it's just been lit. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Barbara Covett: [voiceover of Barbara writing in her diary] People trust me with their secrets. But who do I trust with mine? You, only you.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in "Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: (2007-01-06)" (2007) more
Soundtrack:
Funky Kingston more

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42 out of 56 people found the following comment useful:-
Jarring Notes Superbly Performed, 26 February 2007
7/10
Author: M. J Arocena from New Zealand

Judi Dench and Cate Blanchet both have played the fierce Queen Elizabeth I in their careers and here they fight for the crown in a royal match that is as entertaining as it is jarring. Two civilized women breaking into very uncivilized patterns of behavior. A highbrow story with a tabloid sensibility performed with truth and gusto. Bette Davis would have killed for Judi Dench's part at the time of Baby Jane and although there is nothing grotesque in the way Dame Judy presents us her monster, the monster herself is grotesque. She explains, in a witty and consistent voice over, what's in her mind. The center of her intentions become so appallingly clear to us that Cate Blanchet's slowness to catch up becomes exasperating. Maybe her suffocating domestic situation throws her into the arms of her absurdity. She seems a woman searching for validation without any real vocation. A teacher who doesn't believe she can teach, a mediocre wife a light weight mother. Judi Dench is relentlessly solid in her madness made of longing and fears. I left the theater with a desperate need for a double scotch on the rocks, just to take a strange taste off my mouth.

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