2005 · comedy · drama · family
School of Life
Directed by William Dear1h 51m2005
At Fallbrook Middle School, the annual student-elected Teacher of the Year award is held. And every year for the last 43 years Norman Warner or most fondly called Stormin' Norman Warner has won the award. Now that he has died, the burden of carrying the legacy falls into the hands of Matt Warner, the son of the late Norman Warner who has always lived in the shadow of his father.
Our read: School of Life (2005) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama · family entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- intimate
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How School of Life feels to watch.
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“You want a warm Reynolds-era sports-dad TV movie with heart and easy laughs.”
Skip it tonight — You can't do earnest family sap or another inspirational teacher story.
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