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| TEACHING MRS. TINGLE (1998) - PG-13
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ReviewScore: 33 out of 100
SBD Star Rating:
by Lew Irwin
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The story has been repeated numerous times in recent weeks about how Kevin Williamson modeled the teacher in Teaching Mrs. Tingle after one of his own teachers who once told him that he would never be a writer. Judging from today's reviews, if critics hadn't seen his films like Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer or the TV series Dawson's Creek first, they might have reached the same conclusion after viewing his latest movie -- which he also directed. Jonathan Foreman in the New York Post comments: "It's hard to believe that this amateurish script, reeking of contempt for its teenage audience, could have been penned by the Hollywood wunderkind who wrote the terrific Scream and created television's smart-alecky Dawson's Creek." Rita Kempley in the Washington Post calls it a "crude and sluggish teen satire." Noting that the film was originally titled Killing Mrs. Tingle but was altered after the Columbine shootings, Kempley remarks: "Nobody gets killed, mind you, though those at risk might die of boredom." |
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