2008 · comedy
Lower Learning
Directed by Mark Lafferty1h 37m2008
Barry Goldwater Elementary is on the brink of collapse: the lowest test scores in the state, teachers who are either drunk or having sex on school grounds, and a principal who extorts money from parents. It's up to Tom, the down-on-his-luck vice-principal, to rally the lazy teachers, expose the principal's corruption, and turn the school around before an end of the day board decision.
Our read: Lower Learning (2008) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
- warm
- kinetic
- gentle
- intimate
- funny
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