Detachment (2011) on Netflix
Henry Barthes takes a month-long substitute teaching job at a high school rife with hostility. Erica, a runaway teenager, and Meredith, a student, pull him toward attachments he avoids.
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Plot summary
Detachment follows three weeks in the life of Henry Barthes, a substitute teacher who moves from school to school and never stays long enough to form a bond with students or colleagues. His new assignment is a one-month post teaching English at a high school where many students perform below grade level and classrooms fill with antagonism. In his first class he watches two students harass their classmate Meredith, and he speaks with her afterward. He then visits his grandfather, whose dementia has left him confused, at a care facility. On the bus ride home he sees Erica, a teenage runaway who has sex for money, struck by a man who will not pay her. Erica asks him for sex, and he refuses.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Detachment (2011)
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- Director Tony Kaye said his agent sent him "this fantastic piece of writing by a guy called Carl Lund", and that one of the things he felt about the script was how real it was.
- Detachment screened in competition at the 37th Deauville American Film Festival in France, where it won both the Revelations Prize and the International Critics' Award, and it was the Closing Night Film at the Woodstock Film Festival, where Kaye received the Honorary Maverick Award.
