Helen Mirren, Katie Holmes, Barry Watson, Marisa Coughlan, Michael McKean, Jeffrey Tambor, Liz Stauber, Molly Ringwald, Vivica A. Fox, John Patrick White, Robert Gant, Lesley Ann Warren, Harvey Silver, Alan Heitz, Brian Klugman
A bright high-school senior has her impending status as valedictorian jeopardized when her bitter history teacher, Mrs. Tingle, gives her a poor grade on a project. When an attempt to get ahead in Mrs. Tingle's class goes awry, mayhem ensues and friendships, loyalties and trust are tested by the teacher's intricate mind-games.
Caught between its aims? Three students get more than they bargained for when a theft of a test results paper leads to a deadly battle of wills with their kidnapped teacher, Mrs. Tingle. It seems to me that director and writer, Kevin Wiliamson, got confused as to which direction the film should go in. At times it's jaunty when the scene appears to call for menace, and at others just plain bo...