Teaching Mrs. Tingle | 
| Director: Kevin Williamson
Actors: Helen Mirren, Marisa Coughlan, Katie Holmes, Jeffrey Tambor, Barry Watson
Studio: Dimension
Category: DVD
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Rating:  97 reviews
Sales Rank: 33608
Format: Ac-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dts Surround Sound, Dvd, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 96 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: D18267D
ISBN: 0788818058
UPC: 717951004604
EAN: 9780788818059
ASIN: B00002RB4P
Theatrical Release Date: August 20, 1999
Release Date: December 21, 1999
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The poster for Teaching Mrs. Tingle may feature young TV cuties Katie Holmes (Dawson's Creek), Marisa Coughlin (Wasteland), and Barry Watson (Seventh Heaven), but the real star is the actress playing the title character: Helen Mirren. Mirren plays a bitter, tyrannical teacher who, due to circumstantial evidence, believes goody two-shoes Holmes is guilty of cheating on her history final. Holmes, Coughlin, and Watson go to Mirren's home to convince her that there's been a misunderstanding, but Mirren refuses to listen. Terrified that this will ruin her chances to go to college, Holmes and her compatriots knock Mirren out and tie her to her bed. Unfortunately, they haven't any idea what to do next; when Mirren awakes, the situation becomes a battle of wits in which the teenagers are hopelessly outmatched. Coughlin and Watson are pretty to look at and Holmes has some genuine talent and a lot of charm, but Mirren--who's played Shakespeare on the stage and been in movies ranging from lurid and trashy (Caligula) to eerie and arty (The Comfort of Strangers) to lurid, trashy, eerie, and arty (The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover)--combines the cutting intelligence of Vanessa Redgrave, the steely will of Judi Dench, and a sensual energy that any young starlet would kill for. For fans of the British TV series Prime Suspect, in which Mirren plays the tough yet vulnerable Inspector Tennyson, this teen comedy-thriller is just an amusing footnote in Mirren's career; but if you've never been transfixed by this actress's mischievous sidelong glances, Teaching Mrs. Tingle might provide a good start. --Bret Fetzer
Product Description
When the smartest girl in school is falsely accused of cheating she and her friends devise a scheme to reason with their accuser mrs. Tingle. The plan goes awry with shocking consequences as mrs. Tingles lesson plan takes an outrageously wicked twist. Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 08/03/2004 Starring: Katie Holmes Helen Mirren Run time: 94 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Kevin Williamson
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 very good at being bad June 18, 2009
R. Bagula (Lakeside, Ca United States)
Helen Mirren does her job very well here:
I found myself wishing she were dead several times.
Sometimes the people who should be looking out for you are are actually looking to do you in for their own little bitter reasons?
It is a good teen movie of a situation
that gets out of control.
 2 stars out of 4 December 28, 2008
One-Line Film Reviews (Ann Arbor)
The Bottom Line:
A braindead movie that doesn't bother making its imbecilic plot even slightly plausible (how does Mrs. Tingle go to the bathroom?), Teaching Mrs. Tingle should be thanked for virtually ending the career of Kevin Williamson and never mentioned otherwise
 What every kid would love to do to a certain teacher. March 31, 2008
Timothy D. Jenckes (Warwick, RI USA)
This movie is truly great and Katie Holmes is at her best. I think that just about every kid in school would love to do what they did and I constantly watch it because it is a very good film in my opinion.
 Killing Mr. Griffin....oh wait, Killing Mrs. Tingle! March 18, 2008
Suedehead (the Midwest USA)
After Lois Duncan was disappointed that her teen suspense novel "I Know What You Did Last Summer" was turned into a "teen schlock film" it was highly doubtful that she'd give permission for film rights to Kevin Williamson again. So instead he just wrote it in his own words and called it "Teaching Mrs.Tingle". Anyone who read Duncan's novel can see that Williamson just stole her idea. It's even more obvious that it happened after she was unhappy of HIS treatment of her other novel. I remember seeing it in the theater so I could do a compare and contrast afterwards. The movie fails and just shoots for teen eye candy and cheap pop references that wre popular at the time that now look like dusty artifacts!
A guilty pleasure and pure fun........a good rental! October 29, 2007
J.E.N. (Duluth Mn-USA)
Ok, so this isn't the greatest movie ever made, but who doesn't want to get back at an old teacher and blackmai them and tie him or her to a bed? Ok, well maybe just in my imagination...
Helen Mirren fabulously plays Mrs. Eve Tingle, a witch of a high school history teacher who loves to belittle her students and she is secretly jealous of them. Her preformance is worth the rental of this alone! She's great!
Katie Holmes playes Leigh Ann a hard-working than your average high school student who gets caught with her teacher's final examine in her bag given to her from her loser crush, Luke (who's is her best friends, Jo Lynn's boyfriend).
Leigh Ann, Luke, and Jo Lynn go to Mrs. Tingle's house to reason with her but things just get out of the hand and things get interesting! The best part of this movie is when Mrs. Tingle is tied to the bed! I love it!
A must see for any movie buff who likes Helen Mirren and/or teen flicks...
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